New evidence on how compound found in red wine can help prevent cancer
December 7, 2012
A glass of red wine (credit: Photos Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)
University of Leicester scientists have presented groundbreaking new evidence about how a chemical found in red wine can help prevent cancer.
Experts from around the world attended Resveratrol 2012, a major conference at the University to assess the latest advances in the study of resveratrol — a compound found in the skins of red grapes.
The conference featured new findings based on the last two years of research, which show how the chemical can help prevent cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
The event follows the first international conference on resveratrol, held in 2010 in Denmark, and evidence from more than ten clinical trials held since will be presented and discussed.
Although the potential health benefits of resveratrol have been known for some time, it has not yet been proven that resveratrol can be effective in humans and the best dose to give remains unknown — meaning that its widespread use cannot safely be recommended at the moment.
Researchers at the University of Leicester have been researching the levels of resveratrol which can be beneficial in preventing cancer.
Using laboratory models, they have found that a daily amount of resveratrol equivalent to two glasses of wine can halve the rate of bowel tumors.
Professor Karen Brown, a member of the University’s Cancer Biomarkers and Prevention Group and one of the organizers of Resveratrol 2012, said: “At the University of Leicester, we want to see how resveratrol might work to prevent cancer in humans. Having shown in our lab experiments that it can reduce tumor development, we are now concentrating on identifying the mechanisms of how resveratrol works in human cells.”
The Leicester researchers now hope to take their findings from the lab to the next stage by carrying out clinical trials to find the optimum level of resveratrol in humans.
Professor Brown added: “A lot of people take resveratrol as a supplement, but at the moment we don’t know how it works or on whom it can work until we have more information — we don’t even know the best dose you should take. It has been shown that high doses of resveratrol may potentially interfere with other medication. With all the exciting new studies that are being done — especially the clinical trials — I hope we’ll have a clearer picture in the next few years.”
The conference produced a selection of reports with the latest update on global resveratrol research, as well as the next set of recommendations for the coming year’s scientific research and the use of resveratrol.
Listen and download: Professor Karen Brown: New evidence on how compound found in red wine can help prevent cancer podcast.
Note: any errors in this article are due to our diligent research in testing this remarkable medicinal solution ourselves. — Ed.
Comments (21)
by GatorALLin
…so does 2 glasses of red wine/day increase the chance of oral cancer? YES that is why all the mouth rinse companies have tried to come up with germ killers without alcohol in them.
here is one of the better pills for resveratrol http://longevinex.com/
by Whittaker
Too bad I am a teetotaler. I should just eat the grapes.
by happel
“I feel bad for people who don’t drink. When they wake up, that is the best they will feel all day long.” ~ Dean Martin
by Gabriel
While I wouldn’t consider myself a teetotaler, I also don’t drink alcohol whatsoever, and while the benefits of drinking red wine are constantly being brought up, It’s not enough of a reason for me to start drinking.
Part of it is personal; even if their were irrefutable proof of the benefits of (moderately) drinking red wine, I’d probably still shy away…still, I’m curious to see where this research will lead, and if their are genuine health benefits or it’s just an excuse to drink moderately, which should be done anyway.
by Neil C. Reinhardt
As a former “Alcoholic” I will stick what I have been drinking daily, and when needed, using topically for over 15 years as it not only prevents and/or cures cancer, it does the same for over ninety illnesses and injuries. And as it grows wild in the tropics all around the world, I doubt I will ever run out of it.
It has not only stopped me from getting the flu every year like I did before I started drinking it, I seldom get colds and if I do they last less than half as long as less than half as severe. And I’ve used it to cure both Athelets foot and Toe Nail Fungus much, much quicker than anything else.
Put it on burns and had the pain stop immidately as well as leaving no scars. (contact burns, hot grease and sunburns) Drinking it has caused smokers to lose their desire to smoke.
I used to get sore muscles a few days after playing beach volleyball, I have not had sore muscles in over 15 years! Drinking it also got rid of the aches and pains of old age! I know as I started drinking it when I was only 62. It also is great for ones eyes and is reported to have cured macular degeneration as well as Iris Idis.
SO THIS OLD FART WILL CONTINUE TO DRINK AND USE NATURES NATURAL HEALING MIRACLE (me and Agnostic Athiest Activist calling anything a “miracle” is a Jr. one in itself.) THE JUCIE OF THE NONI FRUIT!
YEP, I LOVES NONI JUICE!
by Bennie Beaver
I’ve been reading about studies on resveratrol for so long, I’ll be dead before they come to a conclusion. I continue to read about how it’ll be just another two or three years before they have a answer…really!
What’s going on?
by Marcos Marin
Yes you will.
That’s all.
by Marcos Marin
“red wine can help prevent cancer podcast.”
– Cancer podcasts are indeed to be avoided!
I will “test” that solution and even if it does not work I’m sure Il won’t be able to make out most words of such a podcast. Thanks!
by Gorden Russell
“…in testing this remarkable medicinal solution ourselves.”
Really? This early in the morning? When I found that I was “testing” too much I cut back. First I limited myself to “testing” only after 6:00 p.m. But when that emptied the box too fast, I had to move up to 7:00 p.m. Even that proved to be too much “testing,” so I moved up to 8:00 p.m. Now I’m all the way up to 9:00 p.m. I only have one glass every half hour, but I’m staying up later and later. You just can’t win.
by dersk
you have to have space for other supplements too. were you joking? If you did it was funny, but if you’re serious It isn’t, sounds like you have an alcoholic problem, but you ain’t alone brother. I would recommend switching to something else, try yoga and green tea my friend.
by Jason Adair
I laughed. =o)
by Travis
Your first problem is that you are drinking wine out of a box, which will certainly kill you faster than a bowel tumor or cancer. {I have no evidence to support this claim ;) }
by Summer Wintemberg
LOL As my old grandpappy used to say, ” you gotta die of something”. (Might as well be wine out of a box.)
by Heikos
Living is deadly. No one survives it.
by bastien
yet
by Mr.X
“Living is deadly. No one survives it.”+”Yet”
@Bastien:
Yet!?You still won’t survive it.As long as you live, you survive.To have survived sth, e.g living necessitates it’s having come to an end.How else can you judge to have (!) survived it?
If you argue that surviving means only living at a given moment (which Heikos statement excludes), this means we all are doing it right now.You see,this isn’t likely to change.
by john
Old Woody Allen joke…God is a classic underachiever…everything He has created has died !!
by Summer Wintemberg
Poor baby. Maybe you should consider “testing” in the a.m. with Cheerios.
by Bri
The big reason why the test results are skewed in humans is that, you don’t have one of them there exercise wheels. Have some wine and get in one of those things and you’ll be living longer like a mouse in no time.
by Mr.X
@Bri: “Have some wine and get in one of those things and you’ll be living longer like a mouse in no time.”
How can you know this!?
I disagree.It may be true that some people exhibit features, especially behavorial features, that are usually considered to be exemplary for rodents, but this doesn’t mean that we are in complete congruence as regards the rest of our own attributes, especially not as a species.
Given the rather complex nature (defined as number of elements) of the systems -and the processes therein contained- which contribute to determine the life span of a given subject, I think it likely that at least some of the relevant elements in the make-up of our species (pl) differ.
Although I admit to having seen some people who beared an uncanny resemblence to hamsters, not only in appearance, but in demeanor (e.g always chewing) as well.Maybe there are other rules at work for them, as opposed to the rest of us!?
by Mr.X
*Erases the “own”, before attributes.
* removes the ed from “beared”.