"New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aging"
The Wisconsin scientists used a dose on mice equivalent to just 35 bottles a day. But red wine contains many other resveratrol-like compounds that may also be beneficial. Taking these into account, as well as mice’s higher metabolic rate, a mere four, five-ounce glasses of wine “starts getting close” to the amount of resveratrol they found effective, Dr. Weindruch said.
I'm skeptical. The amounts tested on rats are always ridiculously high. However, that note about four glasses of wine a day is a dangerously seductive nugget to throw out there. If your liver doesn't fail first, maybe you'll enjoy a few extra years of sobriety to compensate for the earlier percentage of life spent in a drunken stupor.
Posted by eugene at June 6, 2008 1:27 AM