Resveratrol’s Potential to Prevent Cell Damage.

Today’s blog will focus on resveratrol’s potential to prevent cell damage. Resveratrol is a powerful antioxidant that can help protect the body and the heart by neutralizing free radicals in the body. Free radicals are unstable molecules that roam the bloodstream that attack healthy cells and damage membranes and DNA. Resveratrol may provide life prolonging effects by effectively neutralizing free radicals that would otherwise attack healthy cells.

One of the effects of free radical damage is hardening and thickening of the arteries. It has been shown that as cells are damaged by free radicals, this in turn, promotes more free radical activity and more damage. Resveratrol may provide a defense for this progressive process.
Resveratrol’s antioxidant action helps stop free radical damage and opens the arteries by enhancing nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is a critical component of heart/artery function. It allows blood vessels to “relax,” which enhances blood flow. A high-cholesterol diet has been shown to decrease nitric oxide by about a third. Resveratrol supplements may significantly reverse this trend. Also, resveratrol may also stop the proliferation of cells in blood vessels that narrow the arteries and may also keep blood cells from sticking together. Maintaining healthy blood vessels and healthy blood circulation is very important in preventing heart attacks.

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