Resveratrol

News agencies recently aired a report that a human study was suddenly halted due to safety concerns over the combined use of a drug, SRT501 modeled after resveratrol, combined with a toxic chemotherapy cancer drug, bortezomib (Velcade), among patients with myeloma (bone marrow cancer). The combination of drugs was suggested by researchers in attempt to [...]

Scientists from John Hopkins University recently published their findings in a study on lab mice that showed resveratrol may shield the brain from the negative affects of a stroke. The researchers, lead by Dr Sylvain Dore, state that it may not be resveratrol that is inhibiting the brain damage directly, but it may actually be [...]

A recent resveratrol related study by researchers at the University of California, Merced focused on resveratrol;s effect on inhibiting the growth of lung cancer.
Because resveratrol has anti-inflammatory properties, and the researchers know that prior to tumors growing in lung tissue, inflammation occurs because of the accumulation of toxic free radicals, Resveratrol may have binded with [...]

Pfizer Inc has had their hired scientists try and debunk resveratrol’s effectiveness and strike a blow at their arch rival, GlaxoSmithKlein, which has over $720 million invested in creating synthetic drugs that mimic resveratrol.
The ‘corporate’ researchers published their study in January in the Journal of Biological Chemistry that questioned previous studies that suggests resveratrol [...]