Resveratrol

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Resveratrol

Resveratrol is a polyphenolic compound naturally found in some plants, fruits, and particularly in the skin of red grapes. It is known for its antioxidant properties and is commonly used in supplements for its potential health benefits. Resveratrol is often associated with the 'French Paradox' - the observation that the French population has a relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease, despite having a diet rich in saturated fats, which is thought to be due to the high consumption of wine.

Category
Polyphenols
Molecular Formula
C14H12O3
Mechanism of Action
Resveratrol is thought to exert its effects through various mechanisms. It has strong antioxidant activity, helps in the regulation of blood lipid levels, and has an impact on inflammatory processes. It is also believed to activate sirtuins, a group of proteins involved in many cellular processes including aging, transcription, apoptosis, inflammation, and stress resistance.
Evidence Grade
C

Other Names

  • 3,5,4'-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene
  • trans-Resveratrol

Primary Benefits

  • Antioxidant effects
  • Potential heart health benefits
  • Possible anti-aging effects

Recommended Dosage

Adult Recommended dosage varies based on the purpose of use, but it typically ranges from 150 to 500 mg per day.

Side Effects

  • Stomach upset
  • Nausea
  • Diarrhea

Precautions

  • People with bleeding disorders
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding women
  • Those scheduled for surgery

Interactions

  • Blood thinners
  • Blood pressure medications
  • Antiviral medications

Key References

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6164842/
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2835915/
#148 – Richard Miller, M.D., Ph.D.: The gold standard for testing longevity drugs: the ITP
Understanding Longevity: Research, Substances, Genetics, Diet, and Implications 1:18:49 0
“resveratrol did not go through our usual screening process. This was a directive from the top.”

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#148 – Richard Miller, M.D., Ph.D.: The gold standard for testing longevity drugs: the ITP
Understanding Longevity: Research, Substances, Genetics, Diet, and Implications 1:20:15 0
“resveratrol given to mice on a normal diet does not extend their lifespan.”

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239 ‒ The science of strength, muscle, and training for longevity | Andy Galpin, Ph.D. (PART I)
Optimal Ways to Enhance Longevity Through Exercise and Nutrition 1:36:31 0
“there's actually a study came out very recently r veratrol doing it not in humans but like a very reasonable dose five grams of the veratrol I think in in cattle is like not that much at all for a 2,000 pound animal um cause significant changes in fiber type profile”

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281 ‒ Longevity drugs, aging biomarkers, and updated findings from the Interventions Testing Program
Insights on Enhancing Lifespan Through Anti-Aging Interventions and Research 2:02:18 0
“the evidence that it works is very bad it it almost certainly doesn't do anything at least in mice in terms of Aging”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 8:10 0
“And so we're going to talk about NAD boosters. We're going to talk about Metformin, berberine, rapamycin, spermidine, resveratrol, fisetin and quercetin, and probably a few others.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 37:11 0
“The one that was the best at the time, which activated 13 fold Sirt-1 activity was resveratrol.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 37:51 0
“You can't drink enough red wine to get the kind of doses that are efficacious.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 38:29 0
“The minimum that I've seen is 250 milligrams a day. And some people take 1000 or 2000 milligrams a day.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 39:03 0
“Resveratrol is the equivalent of brick dust, it's really insoluble.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 41:06 0
“Resveratrol has been shown to reduce fasting glucose and significantly increase insulin sensitivity.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 43:00 0
“red wine has more than resveratrol and it has some of these other xenohermetic polyphenols that we talked about in earlier episodes that could give a combination effect.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 1:05:09 0
“I take one gram of NMN every morning along with my resveratrol. The reason is in humans we know that that doubles NAD levels which is important because someone my age has half the levels of NAD than I did when I was 20.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 1:08:04 0
“Let's take this morning through night just really quickly. Resveratrol, one gram. - In the morning with yogurt or olive oil.”

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Valter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for Longevity, Cancer & Multiple Sclerosis
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Fasting, and Exercise 58:47 0
“For example, resveratrol, spermidine are considered fasting-mimicking drugs.”

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REVERSE AGING: What To Eat & When To Eat For LONGEVITY | David Sinclair
Enhance Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention with Lifestyle Choices 49:14 0
“taking resveratrol which is a plant molecule that comes mostly from red wine”

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REVERSE AGING: What To Eat & When To Eat For LONGEVITY | David Sinclair
Enhance Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention with Lifestyle Choices 50:06 0
“resveratrol and some other plant polyphenols are highly insoluble once you pull them out of the plant and process them”

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REVERSE AGING: What To Eat & When To Eat For LONGEVITY | David Sinclair
Enhance Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention with Lifestyle Choices 1:09:06 0
“he's on NMN and resveratrol, mainly”

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REVERSE AGING: What To Eat & When To Eat For LONGEVITY | David Sinclair
Enhance Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention with Lifestyle Choices 1:10:12 0
“what i do is listed on page 304 of my book so that's the cheat sheet of lifespan”

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REVERSE AGING: What To Eat & When To Eat For LONGEVITY | David Sinclair
Enhance Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention with Lifestyle Choices 1:24:04 0
“So CERT1 is the enzyme that we work on in my lab and resveratrol and NAD activate it... CERT1 controls the body's sleep-wake cycle. Without CERT1 you don't sleep properly, your body doesn't have a proper circadian rhythm.”

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Autophagy & Longevity Scientist Reveals Worst Longevity Products & BS Claims – Dr. Matt Kaeberlein
The Science of Transforming Inputs for Enhanced Value and Efficiency 0:09 0
“the initial claims that resveratrol could increase lifespan delay aging um have been largely disproven it's been not reproducible certainly in mammals mice in the laboratory there is no lifespan benefit from resveratrol and no evidence that resveratrol has a longevity effect in people.”

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Autophagy & Longevity Scientist Reveals Worst Longevity Products & BS Claims – Dr. Matt Kaeberlein
The Science of Transforming Inputs for Enhanced Value and Efficiency 0:51 0
“there was a meta analysis done I think it was published last year that looked at all of the published experiments on resveratrol in any model organism um and the average effect on lifespan across all of those studies was zero.”

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Autophagy & Longevity Scientist Reveals Worst Longevity Products & BS Claims – Dr. Matt Kaeberlein
The Science of Transforming Inputs for Enhanced Value and Efficiency 4:50 0
“resveratrol activated this family of protein certuins which are named after the yeast certu and that's how it was affecting longevity that turns out to also be wrong.”

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Zone 2 Training: The Science Behind Peak Metabolic Health | Dr Inigo San Millan | The Proof Podcast
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“that uh life right because it was shown that mice who were taking Resveratrol every day they would live longer and therefore this is going to be the best import or most important longevity”

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How Does Stress Affect Aging: Science-Backed Guide for Longevity | Dr Sharon Bergquist | EP #365
Optimizing Stress for Health: Benefits, Risks, and Practical Recommendations 59:27 0
“resveratrol that's in grapes and berries, pistachios, dark chocolate. We know that that can activate our antioxidant defenses.”

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333 ‒ Longevity roundtable—the science of aging, geroprotective molecules, & lifestyle interventions
Unlocking Longevity: Advances in Aging Research, Prevention, and Healthspan 2:36:57 0
“I'm not 100% convinced that there are no health benefits from Resveratrol. I'm pretty convinced it there's no reason to believe it affects the biology of Aging or is a longevity drug but I can't say for sure that nobody would ever benefit from any dose of ratol.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 49:18 0
“Resveratrol which gained a lot of Fame and notoriety because it happens to be found in Trace element elements in the skin of grapes and therefore shows up in wine”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 53:07 0
“there was no effective RIS veratrol and that result has been consistent across the board”

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What to Eat & When to Eat for Longevity | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #2
Optimal dietary choices and habits for longevity and health benefits 56:09 0
“So the idea is that we've evolved mechanisms to sense when our food supply, the plants that we eat are stressed.”

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What to Eat & When to Eat for Longevity | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #2
Optimal dietary choices and habits for longevity and health benefits 56:33 0
“And so when you stress a plant, you get more resveratrol, you get more quercetin, piceatannol.”

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What to Eat & When to Eat for Longevity | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #2
Optimal dietary choices and habits for longevity and health benefits 57:32 0
“The best red wines are ones where the vines are dehydrated or have fungus growing on them.”

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Harvard Professor REVEALS How To SLOW & REVERSE AGING | Dr. David Sinclair
Unlocking Secrets to a Longer, Healthier Life Through Aging Science 9:47 0
“there's another molecule that is like the accelerator on the enzymes uh that makes them going even faster and that's one of them is called resveratrol which we discovered years ago from red wine”

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Harvard Professor REVEALS How To SLOW & REVERSE AGING | Dr. David Sinclair
Unlocking Secrets to a Longer, Healthier Life Through Aging Science 38:11 0
“so my father has been on the same regiment as me resveratrol for over a decade the red wine molecule he's been on metformin longer than me because he had he was a borderline diabetic type 2 diabetic and he's also on a man now”

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Harvard Professor REVEALS How To SLOW & REVERSE AGING | Dr. David Sinclair
Unlocking Secrets to a Longer, Healthier Life Through Aging Science 38:58 0
“i'd love to hear more about resveratrol which is something that i've completely written off until i started researching you um it seemed for a red hot minute like it was real and then it seemed to completely die and i know that you got sort of caught in the middle of some of this stuff”

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Harvard Professor REVEALS How To SLOW & REVERSE AGING | Dr. David Sinclair
Unlocking Secrets to a Longer, Healthier Life Through Aging Science 40:33 0
“to cut a long story short what we found and published in the journal science which is one of the top you can do is that we show that resveratrol does bind to the pacman and it is responsible for this and we now have new information that we haven't published but i'll tell your audience about it we've made a mouse that is resistant to activation of the pacman”

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How Vitamin D, Omega-3s, & Exercise May Increase Longevity | Dr. Rhonda Patrick
Essential Insights for Health and Longevity Through Diet and Lifestyle 43:40 0
“The other example is these plant phytochemicals, so these are compounds that are found in a variety of plants, sulforaphane being one in cruciferous plants. There's the resveratrol is probably a very well-known one that's found in the skin of some fruits like grapes and blueberries, pterostilbene, another one found in the skin of blueberries.”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 43:15 0
“if we gave resveratrol on this red wine molecule, that became well known in the 2000's. If we gave it to mice, their whole lifespan, they were protected against a high-fat diet, which we call the Western diet.”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 43:53 0
“The mice that were given resveratrol every second day on a normal diet live dramatically longer than any other group.”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 50:45 0
“You can try, you need to drink about 200 glasses a day.”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 52:33 0
“I would take some Greek yogurt, a couple of spoonfuls, put the resveratrol on there, mix it around, make sure it's dissolved and put that in my mouth and swallow that, these days, what I like to do, because I've realized that olive oil and particularly oleic acid, one of the mono unsaturated, fatty acids is also an activator of the sirtuin defenses.”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 52:58 0
“What I do is I put a couple of teaspoons of olive oil in a glass mix around the resveratrol, and maybe some Coresatin a similar molecule. Make sure it's dissolved. I put a little bit of vinegar and if I have a basil leaf, I'll put that in.”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 58:17 0
“Well, the first activator of the sirtuins that we discovered that acts on the enzyme to make it do a better job of cleaning up the body and protecting resveratrol”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 1:29:04 0
“And in addition, I also buy the supplements to make sure I'm getting enough of those as well.”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 1:29:10 0
“So resveratrol will, there's another one called quercetin, or quercetin, some people call it, what you find in trace amounts in apples and onions.”

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