Healthy Supplements

Thursday March 24th
If Grapes Contain Resveratrol, Why Can't You Use Them To Get The Maximum Benefits?
It is true of course that grapes contain resveratrol, which is why red wine contains some too. Although you may get some limited benefits, you will not get enough to protect your health. Find out why and the best source to use.

Even though grapes contain resveratrol (red grapes are the best), unfortunately your body is unable to absorb much of it at all.

It was thought the French Paradox, shown in the now infamous CBS documentary, meant that you could get plenty of resveratrol from drinking red wine (from the grape skins being fermented longer).

The French drink and smoke a lot, have a diet high in fat but have very low incidences of heart disease. However, years later, scientists believe many other factors are at work, after seeing how little resveratrol gets into your bloodstream, even after drinking a liter or so of red wine!

The benefits of this powerful antioxidant are huge. It has powerful anti-cancer properties and can help to fight cancer in all three stages. It is used by athletes to help with their endurance as it delivers energy to the body.

By being such a potent antioxidant, it helps to quash the free radicals in your body which damage healthy cells, leading to disease and premature aging. In fact, it is thought to be one of the best natural anti aging nutrients as it can turn back the clock on aging.

It has the ability to turn off damaged genes and activate sirtuins, which helps to repair your DNA. Millions of dollars are currently going into clinical trials to develop a powerful anti aging drug. However, using a natural extract can give you these benefits now.

Another area for research is the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's, with dementia set to be one of the leading health care problems in the West as the population ages.

The best source of resveratrol is from a nutritional supplement combined with lots of other nutrients. Remember, as well as getting very little from grapes, you need to watch you don't get to much sugar too.

The main advantage of a quality supplement is that the other nutrients, especially ones like bromelain and piperine, help resveratrol be absorbed much better into your bloodstream, so you only need a small dose to get the maximum benefits.

The supplement should also have an enteric coating to protect it from stomach acid and allow it to be released in the upper intestine instead.

This is why powders and supplements with cheap veggie caps are a waste of time as most of the goodness is destroyed by the stomach acid.

As you can see, if you want the maximum benefits and although grapes contain resveratrol, a quality supplement is the way to go and you also benefit from all the other nutrients as well.

Discover the synergistic nutritional supplements I personally take that include resveratrol.

To your good health,

Ric Hawkins