NYT: "Researchers at the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Aging report that a natural substance found in red wine, known as resveratrol, offsets the bad effects of a high-calorie diet in mice and significantly extends their lifespan."
Great!
Wait.
"The mice were fed a hefty dose of resveratrol, 24 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. Red wine has about 1.5 to 3 milligrams of resveratrol per liter, so a 150-pound person would need to drink from 1,500 to 3,000 bottles of red wine a day to get such a dose. Whatever good the resveratrol might do would be negated by the sheer amount of alcohol."
Not to mention drowning.
The math's off there, by at least a factor of two, unless they're using those teensy airplane bottles. I'm guessing they used a 150 kg person (e.g. William "The Refrigerator" Perry) rather than a 150 lb person. Either way, though, it's a ton (tun?) of wine.
Posted by: Dave Dobson | Nov 01, 2006 at 07:01 PM
damn lucky mice if you ask me... :-)
Posted by: meblogin | Nov 01, 2006 at 07:14 PM
Duplin Winery. Rose Hill, N.C. Muscadine wines. High concentrations of Resveratrol.
The wine tasting alone should give you more than enough Resveratrol.
Posted by: Dr. Mary Johnson | Nov 01, 2006 at 09:24 PM
Maybe resveratrol could be made publicly available as "wine extract"? It'd take much less then...
Posted by: Sean Stickle | Nov 02, 2006 at 08:29 AM
Duplin Winery puts it in pills if you do not want to drink six glasses of wine a day.
Posted by: Dr. Mary Johnson | Nov 06, 2006 at 08:19 AM
....I don't like taking pills...6 glasses ...hmmmm :)
Posted by: meblogin | Nov 06, 2006 at 08:20 AM
Can Meblogin and I add the pills to our wine?
Posted by: Billy The Blogging Poet | Nov 06, 2006 at 09:27 AM
If memory serves (and the memory is very fuzzy because there were MULTIPLE samplings at the tasting), the recommended "dosage" for maximum heart health was 4-6 glasses of vino per day. Again, the memory is fuzzy.
It's very good stuff . . . the muscadines trend a tad on the sweet side . . . but the dosage was a bit much. I thought it was more likely the heart would not care if it were healthy because it would be pickled.
I do not think there are any contraindications to chasing the pill with the vino. Mind you, I am NOT giving out medical advice.
Posted by: Dr. Mary Johnson | Nov 06, 2006 at 10:37 AM
what red wines in this quantity you live or dead or hangover in some place
Posted by: jackee | Jul 02, 2007 at 08:23 PM
Nice article but I think this is too much quantity of wine will give u too much headache and bad health. I don't agree that wine keep you healthy.
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