Red, Red Wine

I personally will dedicate myself to researching this phenomena. After a few bottles I always feel like I will live forever, regrettably this is always tempered by the feeling that I am about to die the next morning.

I happen to agree with Ray Kurzweil on this one. I feel like we aren't that far off from some serious life extension technology. I am forty, if in the upcoming years they can raise the average lifespan to a happy 100 that will be 60 more years of medical advances that I will be able to take advantage of. It seems very reasonable to me that some major changes could take place in that time. Just think about the difference between now and 1948. Each lifespan extension means that we will be exposed to more technological advances and a greater chance we will be able to live very long lives.

Obviously I am a technological optimist, but I think that we have been creating the baseline technologies for this technology to become reality. Nanotech, Human Genome Research, Higher Resolution Medical Scanning are just the obvious pieces. It would be great to have the option to live as long as we wanted but it will come at a significant price as far as society is concerned.

It looks like we are living the Chinese curse about interesting times. Until we know for sure I will be drinking my wine.

Long life everyone,

Doug

Is resveratrol produces by the wine making process or is it found naturally in the fruits? Maybe eating a Kg of grapes a week will give us the dose without having the bad effect of alcohol?

This seems to be another "scientific discovery" that simply proves that you should eat your fresh fruits and vegetables. My mother knew this 40 years ago and had been told by her own mother...

We are what we eat.

This is obviously not a hard sell - drink yourself to longer life. But I note that they are saying "may" and "new interest" a lot. No results yet, just what sounds like some very tenuous links. And the amounts of wine (35 bottles a day) seem like they may not be too practical.

Dream on - these "wine for health" schemes seem to come along frequently

That's a tremenduos amount of octane rigth there (35 Bottles) waaoouuhh.. that's plenty absolutly Buddies. Also some grape juice once in a while they said is good too, but depend of sugarly quantities as well in consideration for this much intake of juice, imagine that! Waaoouuhh..! Not talking about some Tequila by the side too, Ooohhh Brotherrrr...

Grab the Beer,

MC

Dear All,

Resveratrol is found in all red/blue grapes but only in one variety white (Spanish) grape.

It is a precursor for a natural fungicide that is activated if a fungus is trying to invade the shell of the grape.

So a well protected (by regularly spraying fungicides) vineyard will not produce ample Resveratrol.

The grapes need some stress to produce this substance: the biochemically attacking botrytis cells, UV-B radiation or cooling to freezing temperatures (-7°C) , may be others.

I have not found informations about resveratrol content of dried raisins.

Resveratrol is found in high concentration also in a Asian plant that is not biologically close to vine, extracted and marketed from this source.

Look at the website of life-extension-foundation (LEF.org) and google for resveratrol, there will be more information than you may be willing to read.

I researched into this topic 2002 after learning about benefits and found a lot of information.

It is very likely that I profited from resveratrol as I helped cutting grapes in 1988 and after enjoying to live for 2 weeks from cheese, coffee, red grapes and red wine I stayed with this habit since that time. As long as we have nearby grown grapes on the local market I will eat these at approximately 1Kg per day.

This is regulating any internal process that may have gone wrong.

Try and judge yourself

RHABE

The Spanish connection is probably red and white rioja, especially the white. Even the Bible says, 'Take a little wine for your health'.

Whatever you do, don't release this information into the UK. Our lot don't need an excuse to drink themselves unconcious at the best of time. Tell them that red wine will help entend their lives and the whole country will come crashing down around us.

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