Resveratrol Doesn’t Make It

- Roger Mason

     

Surely you’ve seen the ads for the new “miracle supplement” Resveratrol and the many claims made for it. The sellers tell you it protects against cancer and heart disease and is a powerful antioxidant. Funny, the scientific literature just doesn’t reflect all this enthusiasm. Resveratrol (3,4,5 trihydroxy stilbene) is an extract of grape skins, and is also found in smaller amounts in mulberries and peanuts. You can’t even get any from drinking red grape juice. Go ahead and do a PubMed search (just hit any search engine for “PubMed”) yourself to see. Nothing but some cell culture studies; not even any good rat studies much less humans. If this had any value there would be many animal studies and definitely some human studies. It isn’t like we just discovered grapes yesterday. Cell culture studies just don’t make it folks.

Doesn’t this kind of smell like a promotion of the wine and grape juice manufacturers kind of what is being done with useless lycopene? Grape skins are fed to pigs or used as fertilizer. What a great idea to sell it to people at exorbitant prices. You can only get this from drinking a lot of red wine (which isn’t a great health practice) or eating a lot of highly allergenic peanuts. This is an exogenous supplement and, at best, would only be good for about six months- that is if it had any real value in the first place. Please read the article “What Does ‘Exogenous’ Mean” in our free library to understand the difference between long term endogenous (found in our bodies and common food) and exogenous supplements is.

And speaking of exorbitant prices, Life Extension will sell you 60 X 20 mg of resveratrol for only $32.00! There is 1.2 grams of resveratrol in there, they make this themselves, and the cost of raw ingredients is 60 cents. That’s right, 60 cents for a $32.00 bottle of resveratrol. They say, “Findings from published scientific literature indicates that resveratrol may be the most effective plant extract for maintaining optimal health.”

(Their emphasis.) They must be reading different medical journals.

Young Again Nutrients (who we sued last year, have filed three criminal contempt citations, and is completely unrelated to us) sells 60 X 25 mg resveratrol for $39.95. The 1.5 grams of resveratrol in that costs 75 cents. That’s right, 75 cents for a $39.95 bottle. You’re starting to see how the so-called natural health industry really works, huh? They also claim taking resveratrol, “reduces aggressive prostate cancer risk by 60%.” Where is the FTC when you need them?

At least Vitamin Shoppe will give you a bargain on this as well as a variety. One brand is for only $10.49 while another is a full 60 X 40 mg (2.4 grams) for $13.99.

Folks, there are no Magic Supplements. Diet and lifestyle are the key to good health and long life. There are no shortcuts here. You can’t buy good health. Buffet, Trump, Soros and the rest of the billionaires are overweight and unhealthy.

Yes, there are proven supplements to make you healthier and live longer, but only if you EAT RIGHT and live a healthy lifestyle. Beta glucan, beta-sitosterol, CoQ10, lipoic acid, NAC, PS (phosphatidyl serine), ALC (acetyl-L-carnitine), vitamins D and E, Total Minerals, acidophilus, flax oil, FOS, L-glutamine, glucosamine, quercitin, soy isoflavones-ones and DIM are all scientifically proven endogenous supplements with strong international published science behind them. Quackwatch is no friend of ours and they hate natural medicine in any way, but they exposed this on their website to their credit.

Please read my book Zen Macrobiotics for Americans to learn about the benefits of a whole grain based diet, proven supplements, natural hormone balance and fasting. We will continue to always tell you the facts about natural health and expose the baloney.