Best Sources of Resveratrol
You probably have heard by now about the revolutionary nutrient called resveratrol (RV). RV has been in the news a lot lately and for good reason. It is the nutrient found in red wine that is thought to be the most beneficial. This remarkable compound has been shown to increase lifespan in many different species, kill cancer cells at all three stages of formation, and even give overweight mice the ability to run faster and twice as far as mice of normal weight not given RV.
Resveratrol might be the most important health discovery since antibiotics according to some experts, including Dr Oz. It has the potential to decrease your risk of obtaining a number of degenerative diseases. RV supplementation may even add quality years to your life. Scientific studies have shown that RV increases lifespan from 20-70% for a number of different animals. For the average American, that would mean adding 15-50 quality years to your life!
Admittedly, human studies are scarce at this point, but scientists tell us that humans have the same physiology, as it relates to RV, as the animals so far tested, so it is very likely that people would experience the same result. This is pretty exciting news, huh?
You might be wondering then how you can experience the amazing and wide-ranging benefits of this incredible nutrient. Should you start drinking red wine? Well, red wine is healthy for you in moderation, but it appears you would need to drink 1000 bottles of red wine a day to consume the amount of RV that was being used in studies! So, that is probably not the best source.
What about food sources of resveratrol? It turns out that RV is most concentrated in the skins of red grapes. The grapes with the highest concentrations are the muscadine grapes, which grow wild in the southeastern United States. There is also a significant amount of RV found in the grapes used to make Pinot Noir wine (vitis vinifera). Most of the RV in grapes is found in the skin of the grapes, however muscadine grapes also contain it in their seeds.
Another concentrated source of resveratrol is from a plant called the Japanese Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum). Japanese Knotweed and muscadine grapes are the most concentrated natural sources of resveratrol in the world. RV is also found in some berries but not in the high concentrations found in grapes. One other surprising source of resveratrol is peanuts.
Consuming these foods would surely provide some amount of RV. But to ingest resveratrol at the levels that were used in the studies, you would need to consume an impossible amount of these foods. What about taking a resveratrol supplement? Would that be a good way to experience the many health benefits of RV? The answer to this question is not so straightforward. There are many different types of RV supplements and some are much better than others.
The resveratrol (RV) supplements I would stay away from are those that just contain RV, and nothing else. These supplements contain RV but it has been isolated from all the other plant chemicals and enzymes that normally accompany RV in plants. Our bodies simply are not adapted to absorb nutrients when they are separated from the matrix of natural elements found in nature. I would shy away from all supplements in fact that contain isolated nutrients. These supplements just aren’t natural and are either not absorbed well by the body or in some cases actually do more harm than good.
The best types of resveratrol (RV) supplements are those that are in whole food form. Whole food supplements are healthy foods that have been super-concentrated and put in pill or powder form. These supplements are natural because they contain all the compounds normally present in nature, they just have had the water and sometimes the sugar and fiber removed.
What are left are the food nutrients in a very concentrated form. Our body recognizes this form of supplements as food and has no problem absorbing it and being able to use it to nourish the body. The best RV supplements are those that are whole food concentrates of muscadine grapes or Japanese Knotweed. Muscadine grape supplements are the very best because they contain many other nutrients that Japanese Knotweed does not contain, including quercetin, ellagic acid, and piceattanol. Those supplements that are made from the skins of muscadine grapes are even better yet, as it is the skin of the grape that contains the highest concentration of resveratrol.
Upon learning all this info after researching resveratrol, I set out to find the very best RV supplement I could find. The more I investigated resveratrol, the more excited I became about it.
I found there to be a number of different RV supplements available, but only a few that were made from muscadine grapes, which I concluded to be the best source of RV.</p?
There was only one supplement I came across though that was made from muscadine grape skins. It is made by a company called Muscadine Naturals located in Lewisville, North Carolina. Their product, called Vinetra, is the only product on the market made from muscadine grape skins. What I most liked about this product was that it was 100% natural. It is not an extract like most resveratrol products on the market. Extracts use alcohol or some other solvent to extract the resveratrol from the plant. The bad part about this process is that it often leaves solvent residue behind, which can be harmful.
Vinetra is 100% natural, has no preservatives, additives, or chemicals and actually has a food label instead of a supplement label. It is very rare for a product to be considered a food and not a supplement. A product must be all natural for the FDA to label it as a food.
I have been taking Vinetra for 6 months now and can honestly say that I have more stamina and healthier looking skin as a result. And who knows, maybe some quality years will be added to my life from taking it. I sincerely recommend Vinetra to anyone that wants to improve their health and the way they feel. If you would like to learn more about resveratrol and Vinetra, please take a look at my bio just below. I think you will find yourself as excited about resveratrol as I am the more you read.
Resveratrol is a natural chemical found in the skins of red grapes, raspberries, blueberries and the Acai berry.
To learn all about this anti aging supplement praised by Dr Oz and so many othere, go to Anti Aging Reviews: How Long Does It Take Resveratrol To Work?
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