Resveratrol ~ Diabetes & Endurance Miracle

I first blogged about resveratrol a couple of weeks ago, click here to see the original post. I thought it was a really cool discovery, if true, but it only applied to the mouse world. See'n as how people weigh hundreds of times more than mouses (maybe thousands of times!) I reasoned that there was hundreds of times more work required to make this miracle drug applicable to humans. While that may be unreasonable reasoning, it would appear from reading news articles that there is the proverbial carrot hanging out in front of us.

I read, "While studies have so far been limited to mice, a French team said they had found a genetic link to energy expenditure in humans that looks like it might be similarly affected by resveratrol."

And not only that!!! Mice, our furry little experimental animals, that are put on a mouse sized tread mill could run a mile before collapsing (God, I hate stress tests) but give the little poop machine a diet including ample quantities of resveratrol and the mice could double their distance. AND in addition to the endurance building we can now prevent type 2 diabetes if you are taking (drinking?) resveratrol. AND apparently the diabetes treatment is successful because resveratrol causes cells to burn more energy, this results in weight loss. AND scientists now believe resveratrol can be affective in treating Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. AND resveratrol ingesting mice live much longer than those mouses that collapsed after a mere mile on the tread mill. Could it be that it was red wine pouring from The Fountin of Youth?

Truly amazing except for this little caveat: "Native resveratrol from red wine or nutraceuticals cannot reach therapeutic levels in man. You would need to drink hundreds of glasses of red wine or take hundreds of nutraceutical pills in a day to get a therapeutic dose." I don't see the problem here.

The news articles said, "Scientists suspect resveratrol from red wine may help explain why French people have fewer heart attacks despite their high-fat diets." One must then ask, if the red wine can benefit the French on the one hand then on the other hand can't red wine benefit people everywhere? Maybe the French never sober up and are drowning in wine or the scientists are trying to cover their poop shoot.

It seems to me that it may be worth while to give up on bourbon and beer, switch to red wine, grapes and peanuts, all sources of resveratrol. I have not ever read where eating or drinking large quantities of anything was good for you.... this may be the exception.

I have a picture in my mind, that won't go away, of a mouse stuck to the tread of a tread mill, going round and round. Flap, flap, flap goes his little body as the researcher is hanging at the coffee machine making goo goo eyes at the new lab assistant. Flap, flap, flap, flap. This little furry experimental creature needs more than resveratrol. Such is life in the mouses world.

See you (flap, flap, flap) in the (flap, flap, flap) funny papers (flap, flap, flap.....).