Resveratrol Benefits Against Cancer

Resveratrol has been the focus of intense interest because of its powerful anti-oxidant properties and its potential cardioprotective, anti-aging, and anti-cancer properties.

With regard to anti-cancer properties, resveratrol appears to be important in prostate, uterus, breast and skin health. It appears that resveratrol may selectively target and kill cancer cells and stop them from spreading at all 3 steps of the cancer process. The initiation phase, promotion phase and progression phase. The list of tumors that resveratrol may inhibit is astounding, including prostate cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, liver cancer, brain cancer, pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer, colon cancer, ovarian and cervical cancer, lymphoma and it even appears to act as an anti-leukemia agent. A high dose of resveratrol is probably needed to support these benefits.

In one publised study, resveratrol-fed mice undergoing prostate mutagenesis showed an 87 percent reduction in risk of developing prostate tumors. The mice fed resveratrol for seven months experienced the highest risk reduction. Other mice with a less serious form of prostate mutagenesis were 49 percent more likely to have tumor growth halted or slowed compared to mice not consuming the compound.

In the report "Red Wine Antioxidant Fights Cancer" published by cbsnews.com on March 28,2008, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center say the antioxidant found in grape skins, known as resveratrol, appears to work by targeting the cancer cell's energy source from within. The study showed that resveratrol destroys cancer cells from the inside and enhances the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy cancer treatments. The results showed that resveratrol had a variety of potentially valuable anti-cancer effects, including:
• Making the cancer cells more sensitive to chemotherapy by hampering proteins
that resist treatment
• Triggering cancer cell death (apoptosis)
• Injuring the cancer cell's energy source and decreasing its potential to function

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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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Resveratrol Found in Red Wine

This blog will provide information and the latest news on resveratrol. Resveratrol has captured the attention of the world's health and scientific communities for its potential health benefits. The numerous health benefits of resveratrol have been extensively covered by The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, Science Daily, ABC News, the National Cancer Institute, and numerous other media outlets.

Resveratrol is a compound found in grapes, red wine, purple grape juice, peanuts, some berries and in the Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum). The Japanese knotweed is often the source of resveratrol in supplements. In grapes, resveratrol is found primarily in the skin. Since the skins of grapes are used in making wine, resveratrol is also present in wine, especially red wine. Some researchers suggest the presence of resveratrol in red wine may explain the "French Paradox". The "French Paradox" is a puzzling fact that people in southern France enjoy high dietary intake of saturated fats yet suffer less incidence of coronary heart disease.

Resveratrol is a powerful antioxidant that may provide a number of beneficial health effects such as: 1) protecting the heart by neutralizing free radicals in the body (free radicals are unstable molecules that attack healthy cells and damage membranes and DNA); 2) reducing cancer risk by fighting cancer at three steps - initiation, promotion and progression; 3) reducing inflammation; 4) aid in controlling Type II Diabetes; 5) lowering bad cholesterol; 6) inhibiting blood platelet aggregation: 7) providing anti-aging benefits as the result of caloric reduction effects; and 8) preventing Alzheimer’s disease.

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