• Thursday March 03rd
  • Resveratrol Pill – Discover How To Get The Maximum Benefits From Resveratrol Pills and What To Avoid

  •  One of the most popular supplements today, after fish oils, is the resveratrol pill. After the infamous CBS programme many years ago, its profile has remained high. However, the majority of these resveratrol pills will not help you, find out why here.

    Resveratrol is a powerful antioxidant and is showing great promise in many areas including helping to prevent and treat cancer, treating diabetes, extending your lifespan via calorie restriction and even helping to prevent degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

    A single resveratrol pill will not help that much as it needs to be combined with other nutrients and with the right coating to be effective.

    For a start, this polyphenol is most commonly found in red wine and grapes. It is also found in peanuts, certain berries and the roots of Japanese knotweed. Although it is thought you can get benefits from drinking red wine, this is not strictly true.

    The problem centers around absorption as it is very difficult to get enough into your bloodstream to have any benefit.

    Although you will get some from drinking red wine, you need several liters a day and the effects of the alcohol would cancel any benefits!

    To get the maximum benefits, other natural extracts are necessary to increase the absorption so you get more benefits from a smaller and safer dose. Piperine from black pepper and bromelain are two examples that significantly increase the amount of resveratrol and other nutrients reaching your bloodstream.

    The coating on a resveratrol pill or nutritional supplement is important because it needs to protect the contents from the stomach acid or most of the goodness is lost. Most supplements have cheap veggie caps but these release the contents in the stomach where most of it is destroyed.

    This is why resveratrol powders, whatever the dose, offer little or no benefits.

    Look for an enteric coating and although these are slightly more expensive, the contents are released in the upper intestine instead so you can enjoy all the many health benefits to the full.

    The optimal dose in a combined pill is around 10-20mg a day and should be the active form called trans-resveratrol coming from the Japanese knotweed plant.

    Some of the best synergistic ingredients to mix with resveratrol include green tea, curcumin and olive leaf extract as they enhance the antioxidant powers and deliver even more benefits to you.

    As you can see, a single resveratrol pill offers very little but when combined correctly, you can enjoy the maximum benefits and live a longer and healthier life.

    If you want to find out more about the nutritional supplements containing resveratrol which my family and I use on a daily basis, click here.

    To your good health,

    Ric Hawkins  

     

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