What brand of Resveratrol do you feel is the most effective?
tender asked:
I feel that this could help me with numerous issues but I don’t want to waste time and money buying the least effective product. I would like to tap the collective experience and knowledge of this large group. Any recommendations?
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I feel that this could help me with numerous issues but I don’t want to waste time and money buying the least effective product. I would like to tap the collective experience and knowledge of this large group. Any recommendations?
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September 13th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Well, Resveratrol is Resveratrol no matter which company sells it as long as that company is legit and has good quality. It is a fantastic antioxidant that is also good for cardiovascular health, but that’s about it.
You can get it from any health food store (GNC, Whole Foods, etc) and many other places, but I would be careful about online ads for it (and the “free trials” are hardly ever free since they have to get you to pay for it somehow). Unfortunately, Resveratrol is one of a few high powered antioxidants that are fads right now and when there is a fad, there are always people and companies that take advantage of that popularity and sell their own piece of it. The unfortunate part is that too many of those people/companies make baseless claims in order to sell their product faster and for higher prices.
That being said, just make sure the company has a good rating with either the GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) or USP (U.S. Pharmacopoeia), as those are the main quality assurance organizations (USP is for the U.S., GMP is for the U.S. and worldwide). It’s best to get a product like this from a company that you know and/or trust. If you’d like, I can also point out a few companies out there if you can’t find any in your local area. Good luck and I hope I helped!
September 14th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Since Resveratrol is all the same, what you want to ask is are there any supplement products or sources that are better than most others? In my opinion, the best resveratrol product I’ve come across is called Resveratrol Select. It contains very high amounts of resveratrol plus green tea extract and chromium. But maybe the best thing about it is that you can get a free trial supply to test it out for yourself.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Resveratrol Select is unlike many diet supplements in that it uses a combination of natural and herbal ingredients designed to help the body stay healthy while losing weight. How? By mimicking certain aspects of the Mediterranean diet.
September 19th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
I have doubts that Resveratrol is safe, especially in women.
Compare the chemical structure with DES, and estrogen used in the 1950’s that later was found to increase the incidence of carcinoma of the ****** in adult female offspring.
The studies on safety submited to the FDA was flawed. One study showed it promoted ****** cancer (just like other estrogens) which was followed by other studies that disproved that. I chose to believe the first study.
Remember plastics that leached BisPhenol A? Every industry study said it was safe, and it was even used in baby bottles, now we know it promotes diabetes, ****** cancer and prostate cancer.
Remember doctors widely prescibing estrogen supplements for decades, then when they stopped the ****** cancer rate plummets within 2 years. The Resveratrol likely is going to revive those rates.
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Contrary to what some people think, all resveratrol products are NOT the same! That is just not correct! Most resveratrol products don’t work well, if at all. Here’s why:
#1 A human needs a minimum dose of 250 mg per day to get the anti-aging benefits. That’s 250mg of pure, trans-resveratrol. Most products have less. And even if they say they have more than 250 mg, many of them will be a combination of trans- and cis-resveratrol. Cis-resveratrol is worthless to the human body, but is still technically resveratrol. They don’t tell you that though!
#2 Resveratrol is a highly reactive molecule. Oxygen destroys it, stomach acid destroys it, tons of other compounds destroy it. This means that 99% of all products, which are in capsules or tablets, have no way to protect the resveratrol molecule- the resveratrol is almost entirely destroyed before it ever gets to the large intestine where it is absorbed into the blood stream and transported to the cells, where it does its magic.
#3 The resveratrol molecule has a tendency to clump together into large globs, making it more difficult to absorb, although this is only a factor for the tiny amount that actually survives the stomach.
I’m currently using a resveratrol product that is the only one I’ve found that addresses these problems. It’s called Eternity, and it’s made by a company called SISEL. I get it from a friend who is a distributor for them. From what I understand and have read about it, and some videos I’ve watched about it on YouTube, it seems to make sense.
It has over 250 mg per serving, which is a half ounce- oh yeah, it’s liquid. And that’s pure trans-resveratrol, there’s no cis-resveratrol in it. Also, they use deoxygenated water in the drink, and they even say that they **** out the oxygen from the empty space left at the top of the bottle and replace it with nitrogen so that there’s zero oxygen in the bottle to hurt the resveratrol.
They also do what they call nano-sizing, which means they break up the molecules to a molecular weight less than 300, which is so small that it can pass through the skin, and it doesn’t clump together. They actually recommend on the bottle that you hold it in your mouth for one minute before you swallow because the resveratrol molecules are so small that they absorb through the inside of your mouth and go straight to your blood supply instead of getting destroyed in your stomach.
But then, apparently, they use some kind of microencapsulation process called micellization (it’s on wikipedia, but I don’t understand it) that surrounds teh resveratrol molecules with something to protect them through the stomach so that more of it survives to reach the intestine.
Long story short, I like it. I think it’s fishy that none of these companies ever mention anything about the science of creating a good resveratrol product. They never point out any of this stuff because they just want people to buy their product and they don’t care if it doesn’t work. It seems like it’s a lot more complicated to make a good resveratrol product than just buying a bucket of grape skin powder and putting it in capsules. If it was that easy, why did the pharmaceutical company buy the research company on 60 minutes for like 800 million dollars? I’ve been on the Eternity for about a month now and I seem to have more energy, especially when I exercise.