An Anti-Aging Discovery: Resveratrol

Submitted by Adriana Rae on July 9, 2007 - 07:42.

How do you make old mice magically transform into younger, sleek, slim and athletic mice? You feed them resveratrol.

Resveratrol is a molecular compound found in red wine. But you'd have to drink 10,000 bottles a day to get the same relative amount as these mice were fed in the study.

So now there is a company that is working on commercializing resveratrol for controlling the aging process and curing some of the diseases of aging such as diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Sirtris Pharmaceuticals raised over $103 million in venture funding before their IPO of a couple of months ago. See an interesting article about their anti-aging quest in the New York Times today.

While we wait for them to come up with the magic pills, there are other ways we can work on deterring aging -- with the right diet.

Update June 2008: See an interesting article about red wine and resveratrol in the New York Times today.


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Sirtris and RevGenetics
Submitted by Guest (not verified) on July 9, 2007 - 12:29.

Sirtris is working on a formula and drug using Resveratrol and what it has provided in research. They are actually in testing using a resveratrol formulation of 2500mg and 5000mg on human subjects.

You can see this on their IPO screenshots here
(slide 23):
http://www.revgenetics.com/sirtris.htm

Sirtris doesn't sell any solution at this time, they really are looking for a drug that can be patented instead of a natural source of resveratrol.

RevGenetics is a company that sells 500mg Resveratrol capsules that comes from natural sources.

I hope Sitris comes out with something by 2009, but for now we have some natural sources.

Anthony Loera

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