Folks,

I think the overall point is that resveratrol mimics
caloric restriction. Caloric restriction is well-known
and has been studied for decades and definitely prolongs
life in most/all living organisms that have Sirtuins
that I have heard of. They even bred one without Sirtuins
and caloric restriction failed to extend life. This is
most definitely one of the major longevity gene/enzymes
that's been discovered. No question about it. That
Harvard and BioMol could pair it with Caloric restriction
is good research.

Therefore, the point is not that red wine is drunk by
rich people and rich people live longer anyway so it
won't help them (why would you think it wouldn't?).

The point is that it mimics caloric restriction which
has been investigated ad nauseum and does what it does
to prolong life, demonstrably.

My chief beef is that wine during the work week in the
evenings just doesn't wash. It creates minor and major
headaches and if you buy organic wine instead that doesn't
cause as much of a headache you're still dealing with
alcohol before bedtime which has bad effects on the
soundness of sleep. I find that I have to imbibe
around lunchtime on weekends (cant do that during the
workweek) and it invariably makes me take a weekend
nap (remember alcohol causes awakenings but may help
you get to sleep and not stay asleep.)

So a pill is definitely needed and I think that
www.longevinex.com has that pill. (Btw, I get no
financial gain and am not associated with the firm.)

There is definitely a Nobel prize lurking in this research
by Harvard/BioMol and others which I expect to be given out
in the next few decades.

Mark Lipton > wrote in message >...
> Aria wrote:
>
> > I believe that there are too many variables to give a definitive response.
> > Would be difficult to isolate other aspects of life-style.
>
> Of course. One factor often overlooked is the correlation between income and
> wine consumption and the similar correlation between income and health.
> Unless one does a carefully controlled, double blind study, little can be
> concluded. However, there have now been almost a dozen such studies carried
> out worldwide over the past decade with the following conclusions:
> 1) moderate alcohol consumption is associated with lower rates of heart disease
> and certain forms of cancer
> 2) red wine offers more health benefits than white wine or other forms of
> alcohol
> 3) part of the health benefits can be attributed to certain phytochemicals
> (quercetin and resveratrol in particular) that are found in abundance in red
> wine, but there are other, yet unidentified factors, that also contribute to
> its health benefits
> 4) diet, excercise and genetics make far more difference to one's health than a
> glass of red wine will -- there is no substitute for a healthy lifestyle
>
> HTH
> Mark Lipton