Many of us know the importance of diet in our lives. Since our younger days, our parents warned us to eat our greens and avoid excessive consumption of sweets. However, these days it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell junk food from “real food.” The fast paced modern lifestyle makes fast food eateries and various “instant” meals very convenient and tempting, even though such foods tend to be fried within an inch of their lives, and loaded with harmful additives to boot. It is no wonder, then, that many people are turning to supplements for nutrients and other helpful compounds that their diet does not offer, or does not offer enough of.
Resveratrol is becoming one such popular supplement. Though found in many plants (it is one of the chemicals plants use to defend themselves, not being able to run away), it is often found in such small amounts that you would have to radically change your diet and perhaps jeopardize your nutrition in order to get enough every day to witness appreciable results. This is why Resveratrol is either isolated or synthesized, and then sold as a supplement.
Still, we must ask why Resveratrol is so important that people are willing to go through so much trouble to have some in their diet. What does it do for the body?
To begin with, Resveratrol can lower your blood sugar. In animal testing, it is shown to not only alleviate this symptom of diabetes, but to also help rehabilitate the organs that get damaged in diabetes, such as the kidneys and liver. In other words, Resveratrol does not just alleviate the short term symptoms. It actually tackles the organs involved and helps them to function well again, so that your diabetes will be treated in a deeper, more holistic way.
Furthermore, Resveratrol seems to be a good anti coagulant. This means that it helps thin your blood so that it flows through your body better. With improved circulation, you are at less risk for heart disease or stroke. In addition, Resveratrol can work as an anti inflammatory medicine. This means that they can reduce localized pain by tackling the pain source (i.e. the tonsils, an aching limb), but have fewer side effects than other drugs, which go straight for the brain. Evidence suggests that Resveratrol can also help to fight cancer, as it helped reduce tumors in lab rats. Resveratrol is also touted as a substance that can improve memory, and reduce the depositing of the brain plaque that brings on the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Given the types of diseases it prevents and addresses, Resveratrol seems to be a very useful substance for more mature individuals, as this is the period in life when ailments like Alzheimer’s Disease and hypertension tend to flare up. However, younger individuals might find a use for it, as well. Taken in small doses, and regularly, it might help prevent the onset of these diseases later in life. Of course, we must not forget that there are younger diabetics and hypertensive people, as well.
Resveratrol has shown its relevance to various illnesses, and is definitely worth looking into, if you care about your health.
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