The Health Benefits Found in Red Wine

The health benefits found in Red Wine

According to the latest research, an ingredient called RESVERATROL which can be found in red wine has remarkable health benefits including cancer prevention and protection of the heart and brain from damage.

Low to moderate drinking – especially of red wine – appears to reduce causes of mortality, while too much drinking causes multiple organ damage.
According to professor Lindsay Brown from the University of Queensland: “Reports on the benefits of red wine are almost two centuries old.
Studies on the actions of resveratrol, one of the active non-alcoholic ingredients, were uncommon until research around 1997 showed prevention of cancers. This led to a dramatic interest in this compound.

Red wine contains a complex mixture of bioactive compounds, including flavonols, monomeric and polymeric flavan-3-ols, highly colored anthocyanins, as well as phenolic acids and the stilbene polyphenol, resveratrol. Brown said that some of these compounds, particularly resveratrol, appear to have health benefits.The resveratrol reduces age-related diseases such as inflammation, reverses diabetes and obesity and has many more remarkable benefits. Findings on resveratrol will be published in the September issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.

We need to understand better the vast array of compounds that exist in nature, and determine their potential benefits to health.

The researchers found, as they had expected, that resveratrol treatment increased the expression of SIRT1 and stimulated the activity of AMPK in the livers of mice fed alcohol. They further found that the increased expression of SIRT1 and AMPK led to reduction of sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP-1), activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma co-activator alpha (PGC-1a), elevation of circulating adiponectin, a hormone produced by fat cells, which helps control obesity and enhanced expression of adiponectin receptors in the liver, which increases the effectiveness of the circulating adiponectin.

The findings suggest that resveratrol prevents alcoholic fatty liver by coordinating molecules that control fat metabolism. This prevents accumulation of fat in the mouse liver by both reducing the production of fat and burning off the fat that is there. Interestingly, the combination of alcohol with resveratrol appears to enhance the positive effects of resveratrol, said Dr. You, the study’’s senior author

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