Super Antioxidants

Archive for May, 2010

Resveratrol is found in quantity in two mans favorite foods, chocolate and red wine. One of natures powerhouse antioxidants it can elongate life, protect your heart, smooth artery walls, increase energy and boost your immune system.

Red grape skin (thus the wine connection) and the grape seed are where this polyphenolic compound is found in abundance. Resveratrol is also found in large amounts of cocoa which is the main ingredient of chocolate. In studies with rats and mice it has been found to be anti-inflammatory, anti cancer, blood sugar lowering and it is a chelating agent. People with cardiovascular disease could possibly be helped immensely but no research has been completed showing this in humans.

Other foods where this nutrient is present is in peanuts and the Vaccinum species of berries which includes our old antioxidant rich friends blueberries, bilberries and cranberries.

A Harvard Medical School study showed evidence the this nutrient may be powerful enough to overcome the eating of an unhealthy diet such as a macaroni and cheese, ice cream and pizza. This discovery shows how well the body can maintain itself when given even small amounts of the right nutrients

This group of Harvard researchers wanted to know if this antioxidant can help us live longer, healthier lives. They gathered up a group of middle-aged mice and fed half of them a terrible junk food diet. To make sure it was the worst diet possible, 60% of the calories came from fat, including trans fats! These mice like people became over weight and wrought with health problems and all died prematurely.

The researchers took the other half of the mice and fed them the same exact diet at the same exact time. But in addition to the horrible diet, these mice were given Resveratrol

As a result the mice became overweight too. But they looked healthy and their organs functioned as normally as thin mice eating a regular diet. the mice that were on the nutrient rich diet lived up to 15% longer than normal. For you and me it is like adding eleven years. In physical tests the overweight mice on resveratrol out performed thin mice without the nutrients. The tubby mice had twice the stamina and agility as there thin brethren. It was found they performed so well because the resveratrol increases the blood flow and increases the energy available at the cell level. In other studies it has been shown to double stamina in animals.

Resveratrol has been found to inhibit the proliferation of a variety of human cancer cell lines, including those from breast, prostate, stomach, colon, pancreatic, and thyroid cancers.

Resveratrol is found in our whole food nutritional complex Super Fruit and Berry Antioxidant Energy Drink. It is also found in all of our completely balanced nutritional formulas in the form of grape seed extract and other antioxidant fruits.