Resveratrol-gives you energy you didn't know you had at 40

Its possible you've heard of Resveratrol you might even heard that it can be found in red wine (sometimes refered to as the French Paradox) and some other plants. Resveratrol is a highly effective naturally occuring antioxidant found in plants and is now being suggested as the cure to premature aging (aging too fast).One study a few earlier this century indicated that Resveratrol had the effect of extending the lives of laboratory mice by 30 percent. To put that in perspective the equivalent of 40 human years.

It's come to my attention that Resveratrol might be the most powerful and versatile antioxidant and anti aging supplement there is available. Of course CoQ10 may be more versatile and have more uses but that remains to be seen.

The newest round of studies, from the Institute of Genetics, Molecular, and Cellular Biology, found that resveratrol helped mice run twice as far during exercise. It super-charged their muscles, reduced their heart rates, and gave them a boost in endurance comparable to the boost humans achieve through athletic training.

A study of men and women from Finland showed that resveratrol is likely to work in much the same way in humans. And one of the leading researchers a professor from a French study at the University Of Strasbourg, Professor Johan Auwerx, said, "Resveratrol makes you look like a trained athlete without the training."

A huge additional benefit revealed in the studies on mice showed that they were protected from gaining excessive weight and did not develop the symptoms untreated mice did of diabetes and obesity.

This can be atributed to the increased sensitivity to the product and effects of insulin. These means that when you reduce the decline of the effectiveness of the bodies ability to produce insulin ( a condition associated with aging) this has a direct effect. The body is less vulnerable to diabetes and obesity related illness which tend to occur more commonly in maturing men and women.

Apart from resveratrol being found in red wine (or rather more accurately the process which produces red wine). Resveratrol is also present in a number of plants of high quantities these include blueberries, cranberries, bilberries and red grapes and perhaps more suprisingly peanuts. I have found that Resveratrol is easier to take in supplement form the best source of which I have found to be Rejuvanol from First Health. They provide the ideal dose of 150mg of Resveratrol a day.