4 ms·
This may be easy to determine. There are people who consume resveratrol daily, over an entire lifetime. Imagine a controlled study comparing the health profil
by davidhansen 15y ago
This may be easy to determine. There are people who consume resveratrol daily, over an entire lifetime. Imagine a controlled study comparing the health profiles of long-term alcoholics who consume similar amounts per day:
Control group: Those whose drink of choice does not have resveratrol.
Experimental group: Those who drink almost exclusively red wine.
Both groups will have ill health due to the alcoholism, but the experimental factor, the consumption of red wine vs. other alcohols, should show a correlative difference, if one exists.
- maaku 15y agoThat's how we learned of resveratrol in the first place: by studying how ridiculously healthy the French are given what they eat and drink on a daily basis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Paradox A healthy intake of red wine seemed to be a common factor in the French story, and from chemical analysis of wines we found resveratrol.
- Daniel_Newby 15y agoThe dose in this study was 150 mg/day. Wine has a few milligrams per bottle. Red wine also has other significant differences, most importantly a large amount of polyphenols that have biological effects.
- amalcon 15y agoThat would not be a very informative study. The experimenter could not control for factors that might both have direct health outcomes and increase the likelihood that someone prefers red wine. Wealth and being Italian are the obvious ones there, but there are sure to be others.