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If today’s party my youth is
I shall offer it from down to sunset
and in pleasure hurry glass after glass
Of the old wine that to dream invites
Shall you find it hidden in their sediments
my friends, its bitterness do not course
for it’s been its yeast exquisiteness
The essence of my blood and of my life
The sediments of wine - Omar Khayyam, Persian, 10th
century
A compound
present in red wine would avoid a series of health problems
related with aging, since it benefits the heart and strengthens
the bones, in addition to prevent cataract formation, reported
researchers on Thursday.
In this research project, scientists studied mice fed a standard
diet but with an additional Resveratrol complement when these
mice had an approximate equivalent of the human average age.
This study is the first one to generate hope that this compound,
or drugs based on it, can improve people’s health.
Most of the mice that were under Resveratrol treatment did
not live longer than other mice, but they were much healthier
in important aspects, according to the article published in
the magazine Cell Metabolism.
"The good news is that we can improve health. I believe
that’s more important than to increase longevity,"
said David Sinclair, from the Harvard
Medical School, who conducted the research together
with Rafael de Cabo, from the US
government’s National institute on
Aging.
"Scientists found that mice fed a high calorie diet
with a Resveratrol dose Had maximum lifespan when compared
to mice on the same diet without Resveratrol," reported
the authors.
"Resveratrol ended with the negative effects
of adipose (fatty) tissue," affirmed De
Cabo in a telephone interview.
Resveratrol, found in large quantities in grapes and in red
wine, has caused great interest among scientists and some
companies.
GlaxoSmithKline paid this year 720 million
American dollars to buy Sirtris Pharmaceuticals Inc,
a company that produces drugs that mimic the effects of Resveratrol.
Experts from Sirtris participated in this study.
Concrete Benefits
During the conduction of this research, some mice were fed
a standard diet, others a high-calorie diet and others were
fed every day in between.
Then the scientist started treating some of the animals with
a high- or low-dose of Resveratrol when they were 12 months
old, an approximate equivalent of 35 human years
Rodents treated with Resveratrol experienced several health
benefits compared to untreated mice, explained the team of
researchers.
Resveratrol treated mice experienced less age-related and
obesity-related cardiovascular functional decline. Their total
cholesterol lowered, their aortas worked better, and the compound
also seemed to have moderated inflammation in the heart, reported
scientists.
Treated mice also tended to have better bone health than the
non-treated control group. they were also found to have reduced
cataract formation as well as improvement in balance and motor
coordination
The genetic expression of Resveratrol-treated mice partially
mimicked the genetic expression of mice under a dietary restriction,
which had previously been shown to provoke slower aging process
and increase longevity in some mammals.
The study was based in a previous publication, dating from
2006, that revealed that Resveratrol improved health and longevity
in overweighed mice.
De Cabo said that although the new findings are encouraging,
it would be premature to recommend Resveratrol nutritional
supplements for human use, since it yet remains to be studied
how this compound would interact with other drugs (Source:
Reuters information distributed by Yahoo)
Note of the editors of Diario del Vino: Omar
Khayyam was a Perisan poet, philosopher and scientist
from the 10th century. He died at the age of eighty. A great
amount of his prolific activities in all the fields of knowledge
was tinged by his extraordinary love for wine – which
he thought of as an elixir of life- and to which he dedicated
innumerable poems. Noticeably, Omar Khayyam,
enlightened with the inspiration of poets and visionaries,
anticipated about a thousand years to the investigations of
prestige contemporary universities.
More on this topic:
Red
wine improves life quality during old age
White
wine with the healthy effects of the reds
July 7th, 2008
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