Comments on: Fountain Of Youth In A Wine Rx?

Researchers Tell Morley Safer Red Wine Substance Resveratrol Could One Day Lengthen Lives

[ithinkhealthy]

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[JKHGN]

There is a scam like situation with this report. A trial supply is advertised, then another company has piggybacked on the original offer. You are unable to contact the company to cancel the product.

[bwlewis1964]

One glass a wine per day sounds good to me.

[indianahrw]

Keeping those monkeys in thoses cages for their entire lives is immoral... disecting those mice should be criminal... How intelligent does an animal have to be before it's considered murder?

[rmortensen]

Did anyone notice how many times the makers of the new resveratrol pill mentioned that it was for "diseases of aging", like becoming more diseased as we get older is a fact of life. It is not a fact of life. The human body is not designed to naturally become diseased. Most of the diseases afflicting people today are due to our "modern" lifestyle of being more sedentary, eating processed foods, eating too much, living in a polluted environment and being too stressed. Right now two-thirds of all men, women and children in the U.S. take prescription drugs and yet Americans live shorter lives than the citizens of forty other countries that spend far less on medicines and other medical care (see "Our Daily Meds" by Melody Petersen). Why doesn't 60 Minutes report on the reasons behind this instead of promoting more pills? There's been a huge increase in auto-immune diseases in this country linked to the environmental contaminants we encounter on a daily basis in our homes, schools and workplaces (see "The Autoimmune Epidemic" by Donna Jackson Nakazawa). That's another big story that the mainstream media is missing. And here's one more: on May 19, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (www.aaemonline.org) called for an immediate moratorium on genetically modified foods saying that they cause a serious health risk. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes "there is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects" and that "GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health." GMO's have been approved by the FDA since 1996. Last year 89% of all soy planted in the U.S. was GM. Why is no one reporting this story??? (A good source of information is www.responsibletechnology.org). I find it troubling that we spent so much airtime last year on tainted peanuts that might be in a child's peanut butter, yet never heard a word about the corn sweetener in almost every child's peanut butter that most likely came from GM corn. What long term health damage will all of these children suffer? We must start talking about health in this country, not just healthcare. That could be one of the answers to our out-of-control spending. Another would be to consider the new biology that has moved beyond Newton and looks at things on a quantum level (for a start, see "The Biology of Belief" by Dr. Bruce Lipton, www.brucelipton.com).

[bbrooks78]

Resveratrol is available in a product named Tru Blue from Going Blue! Why wait 5 years to get a product that is available today! Going Blue is for you!

[grabandgo]

They will have a pill for everything..The drug companies control everything.

[cosmicfluke]

"If they're right, we all may soon be taking a pill that could give us an extra decade or two of healthy old age."

the pharmaceutical companies frickin' own the media.....

drink wine, fark pills.

[healthspeak]

In order to get the full benefits of resveratrol you must take high potency supplements as shown 3/24/09 and featured Biotivia's Transmax which he says he takes everyday.
http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090305-tows-resources
Do your research before you buy resveratrol, the internet is full of frauds that pretned to have researched brands. Check Consumerlab.com for unbiased reviews...

[catlefty]

I see I'm not the only one who was MORTIFIED watching Morley
Safer take part in looking at Chimps confined to iron cages with no soft place to lie/sit/ no room to stand or move freely/ not much larger than a coffin. That's torture enough without experimenting to prolong their life. I have donated lots of money for years to "Save the Chimps.org" who are working to STOP this animal abuse.

[ProfessorMac_net]

Maybe one point that could have been made by 60 Minutes is that medical research that utilizes animlas might be reduced if we were better able to practice some discipline in our lives. Such a simple things as taking responsibility for what we consume, and the impact such things have on our health, can go a long way and minimize our dependance on medications. Remember - ALL medications have side effects. No matter what the scientists think they may accomplish thru this study of resveratrol, it won't be a "pie in the sky." We only had that under Adam and Eve, and we've been fighting immortality ever since. Knowledge and a lot of good sense practice can go a long way. Each must choose what practices best suit them, though I think most would agree the less painful the better.

[ProfessorMac_net]

I wish 60 Minutes and health news organizations would report this Calorie Restriction diet correctly. You do NT need to starve yourself down to the very thin shape as the seniors in the news piece. You only need to limit your daily calorie intake to that level which you will burn each day.

I am 54 and have been doing the diet for about a year. I did it for my GI complaints and lost 15 lbs over 4 months. Low and behold my GI and arthritus complaints all improved and I'm able to lift weights now at the gym. I'm 6'2" and 180 lbs, so I'm not too thin. I am muscular again. I've also had 7 brain surgeries and a shunt implant. Here are my simple tips:

1. Remember that when you are eating, it takes 20 minutes after you stop eating to feel the effect of being full. So you need to stop while you are still hungry.

2. When eating any food, ask yourself is this something "nutritional" you would use to sustain your life, or is this just junk to appease a psychological need?

3. Remember how you felt about food as a child. Most kids never ate much or very well, as as such you spent much of your childhood undereating and then teen years not having the money or time to eat. So much of your youth many were likely often a bit hungry. It is actually health to feel hungry. If you always satisfy your desires when they emerge, at some point they will begin to control you. Self discipline is a good thing to have.

4. You will be at peak performance when you are able to effectively manage your dietary intake. Remember, you eat to live, not live to eat!

5. Carbohydrate reduction and breaking its addition is the hardest part of the diet to get going. It will take you a few months to break this, and long term you'll feel differently about over use of carbs and sugars.

Why all the emphasis on wine, when pure purple grape juice is also a good source, but without the alcohol?

[Kris1960]

OK... back to the topic. It's a very important and interesting one. Perhaps the wine is the big secret or part of a larger puzzle. My bet is that several factors yet to be seen are at play, including control of stress which enjoying wine socially partially assists with. For those seriously interested in further examples of aging "secrets", we certainly have many examples and role models right here in the U.S. Just take a look at adlercentenarians.org and elsasownbluezone.com. You may be very surprised.

[Mark_Pine]

David Sinclair, the Harvard biochemist who discovered that resveratrol activates the sirtuin gene, says of this drug: ?We?re talking about is potentially making a 90-year-old as healthy as a 60-year-old.?

If you think that?s true, that minus three decades will come from a pill, you might as well believe in Tinkerbell and the tooth fairy.

Twelve of 60 Minutes last evening was an infomercial for this compound. But will it do what?s promised?

The fairy tale goes like this: The French people drink a lot of wine, but they consume a high-fat diet and still have a markedly lower mortality rate from coronary heart disease compared to other Western countries. So it must be the wine, and the resveratrol in the wine, right? (It couldn?t be the French health care system, rated best in the world by the WHO in 2000.)

Actually, if you think about it for a minute, it can?t possibly be the resveratrol in the wine. Sinclair says, ?You?d need to drink about 1,000 bottles a day of red wine? to get the amount of resveratrol needed. Even the French don?t drink that much wine; ergo, it?s not the resveratrol. Although it may be true that ?moderate alcohol use seems to offer some health benefits, particularly for the heart,? it can?t be because of resveratrol.

So what?s going on? 60 Minutes reported that several clinical trials of resveratrol are in process. But if you check the federal clinical trial registry, ten investigations are listed. Only one has been completed. It was a so-called Phase I study, lasting only 10 days in 40 people. And it was done only check blood levels of the drug and to make sure the drug didn?t harm anyone; it didn?t assess effectiveness for any purpose.

One trial discussed in the news report appears to be # NCT00654667 done at UCSF. The investigation looks at insulin sensitivity (an important factor in diabetes) in overweight/obese women. But though the study was scheduled for completion last August, it is listed as not even started.

The 60 Minutes segment showed a picture of jar of resveratrol with the chemical diagram on the label. It looked very scientific. But above the diagram, you could see the words ?Dietary Supplement?. What that means is that the compound isn?t intended to be a drug but a food. It is, after all, found in the skins of red grapes, and that?s why it?s also found in red wine. But a dietary supplement can be marketed without proving that it works for anything at all. The FDA?s supplement regulations make sure that what?s put in the jar is pure, unadulterated and safe to consume. But they don?t require any kind of effectiveness.

You can guess what the plan might be: Hype this product in the press. Publicize it on reputable news programs like 60 Minutes. Stir up demand so that as Morley Safer said, ?The question that most of us want answered is: when do we get this pill??

Then make megabucks selling something that does who knows what?

[langstfam]

We were duped! After hearing about a "miracle" product called "Resveritrol Ultra", and claiming to be endorsed ... "as seen on 60 minutes" (the even play a clip on their website), we ordered it online as a "free trail" offer. Unfortunately we missed the fine print, and their understated return window by 2 days. But after seeing some other bad posts online, we called up and stopped the insanity ...We had unknowingly entered into an open ended subscription for $109/mo (we hope it is over anyway). We are now out $87.13 (for this "free trial"). 60 minutes' programming brings a lot of value...it is a shame to see reputable shows linked to this scam. Turns out that this product may not even be the real deal. Per your show last night, the Resveritrol clinical trials are not even done! It is too late for us..but PLEASE help warn your other viewers.

[grouch1972]

Yes, I too was mislead with the 14 day free trial when the product didn't arrive until 10 days after I signed up. And yes on 14 days they charged my cc $87.13 and when I called after having tried the product for 10 days, Quote "You had to cancel after 14 days from signing up. Let's see how do you try it for 14 days when you only have product for 4. Lesson learned, shame on Dr. Oz and 60 minutes for supporting this practice.

[ralexander58]

Did anyone watch the 60 Minutes segment that originally aired last year on Resveratrol which is an anti oxidant found in red wine which may or may not help slow the aging process? In this segment they showed a study being done where monkeys are put on restricted diets to extend their lives, which, it seems, works. What bothers me is that these monkeys are kept in a sterile environment in cages for the duration of their lives, on average 25 years, to see if a 30% reduction in their lifetime intake of calories extends their lives. So I ask....who would want to live longer if you were in a sterile cage for the duration of your life? What is the purpose of such insanity? Why do we as humans think we have the right to inflict such a life on innocent creatures? So that we can know for sure that reducing our food consumption increases our lifespan? Unfortunately I know that this type of study goes on all the time and that animals are used for all sorts of things including the commercial testing of products but that does not make it right or fair. At what point do we stop inflicting pain on innocent lives for the sake of "lifestyle"?

You may find this overly sentimental but I think that the type of thinking and behavior that is behind this type of cruelty, this idea that it is alright to inflict pain for the sake of human progress, is the same type of thinking and behavior that allows companies to poison rivers with waste, pollute the skies with uncleaned exhaust, deplete fisheries, bury nuclear waste, dump toxic waste into the oceans, and otherwise grossly abuse the environment and all life on it.

So basically, extending human life is a commercial venture. Lot's of companies will sell lots of snake oil and drugs because essentially we are afraid to die and therefore want to live longer. In our efforts to do so we seem to forget that life is more than "lifestyle" and that we have, as a conscious sentient species, an obligation to think seriously about inflicting pain on animals and creatures on land and below the oceans as a consequence of our need to live longer or easier or better, whatever better means. We are not only depleting resources at unheard of rates but we are depleting our conscious awareness of compassion in the process.

[3sidestoeverystory]

Too bad not everyone will be able to avoid it after Congress taxes wine to death to pay for healthcare

[CantonMichelle]

I've been hearing about the benefits of resveratrol for years and finally gave in and started looking for a good product a few months ago. I googled UltraResv and the top site with the same name seemed impressive to me. So I signed up for the trial and have been using it since. There are many sites out there but I would be careful making sure Iyou are dealing with a reputable company.

[pollroller1]

hower4, it sounds to me like you might be a little jealous of us Americans and our wonderful way of life.