Here's to Your Health With Red Wine - Beginners Guide
Much has been written about the benefits of wine. An article appeared on January 6, 2012 substantiating some prior disputed research results that red wine does have a positive effect on reducing risk of breast cancer in women. As late as six months ago there were researchers believing wine was not good relative to breast cancer. However, this latest research came from Cedar Sinai Hospital and supports other research that red wine does reduce breast cancer risk. But this isn't the first such news about the benefits of wine. It isn't just any wine but red wine in particular.
In the 1950's a guy by the name of Dr. Jack Masquelier started looking for more potent anti-oxidants in plant material. Because he was from Bordeaux, France he started experimenting with grapes as a new source to extract what are OPC's, we also call them anti-oxidants. Anti-oxidants go after free radicals in our cells and render them harmless. Free radicals are part of the aging process of cells being destroyed by oxidation; not good. When we are younger our body naturally produces anti-oxidants, as we age that capability diminishes. Oxidation effects come about from most everything; exercise, sun and foods are three. As cells change due to oxidation it is called mutation.
Dr. Masquelier was the researcher that found the benefits of grape seed extract as a source of small flavanols, or anti-oxidants, present in red wine and specifically red wine seeds; the active compound in red wine (OPCs). What is truly interesting about grape seed extract is that it has great applications in both nutritional as well as topical products.
All wine drinkers have heard of the "French Paradox". Robert Mondavi is the guy in the U.S. that really marketed the health benefits of wine. The French, with a diet filled with saturated fat and cholesterol, have the lowest rate of heart disease of any western society-nearly half that of the U.S. The theory was the red wine the French drink. Specifically, the anti-oxidants concentrated inside the grape seeds made the wine rich in anti-oxidants. In fact, guys like Jack Masquelier, believed that red wine is more healthful than white, since most red wine is fermented with the seeds and skin while white wine is not.
Resveratrol is an anti-oxidant compound in wines and especially red wine and is found in the skins. The grape seed extract renders far more powerful benefits. But sufficed to say the benefits of wine are profound-everything from reduced cancer risks, anti-aging, circulatory, eyes and skin; all can benefit from drinking red wine.
In the U.S. there are two giants in the wine industry that use virtually all of the left over products in the manufacture of wine. The by-products are the grape skin and the seeds. Luckily the seeds are the most potent of the by-products and are most sought after to make grape seed nutritional supplements.
Don't let the benefits of wine end with the sip. More often than ever you are seeing grape seed extract making its way into skin care products. As the sun oxidizes skin cells and produces free radicals, logic tends to indicate that the anti-oxidant free radical scavengers from the phyneols of grape seeds can work through the skin also.
I once ask a cardiologist friend of mine: "is it possible to get too much phenols/anti-oxidants per day?" My theory is that if a little is beneficial than a lot more is better. No, he still says 8 ounces a day is his recommended limit.
There are literally hundreds of compounds in a glass of red wine. As wine ages the number of compounds change into more complex molecules, then add to that the effects of oak compounds. Don't take the value and complexity of wine too cavalier. This drink has been around since the beginning of civilization and until about 1960 we did not know the health benefits and the magic of wine. In fact, the discovery of resveratrol did not come about until 1990.
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In the 1950's a guy by the name of Dr. Jack Masquelier started looking for more potent anti-oxidants in plant material. Because he was from Bordeaux, France he started experimenting with grapes as a new source to extract what are OPC's, we also call them anti-oxidants. Anti-oxidants go after free radicals in our cells and render them harmless. Free radicals are part of the aging process of cells being destroyed by oxidation; not good. When we are younger our body naturally produces anti-oxidants, as we age that capability diminishes. Oxidation effects come about from most everything; exercise, sun and foods are three. As cells change due to oxidation it is called mutation.
Dr. Masquelier was the researcher that found the benefits of grape seed extract as a source of small flavanols, or anti-oxidants, present in red wine and specifically red wine seeds; the active compound in red wine (OPCs). What is truly interesting about grape seed extract is that it has great applications in both nutritional as well as topical products.
All wine drinkers have heard of the "French Paradox". Robert Mondavi is the guy in the U.S. that really marketed the health benefits of wine. The French, with a diet filled with saturated fat and cholesterol, have the lowest rate of heart disease of any western society-nearly half that of the U.S. The theory was the red wine the French drink. Specifically, the anti-oxidants concentrated inside the grape seeds made the wine rich in anti-oxidants. In fact, guys like Jack Masquelier, believed that red wine is more healthful than white, since most red wine is fermented with the seeds and skin while white wine is not.
Resveratrol is an anti-oxidant compound in wines and especially red wine and is found in the skins. The grape seed extract renders far more powerful benefits. But sufficed to say the benefits of wine are profound-everything from reduced cancer risks, anti-aging, circulatory, eyes and skin; all can benefit from drinking red wine.
In the U.S. there are two giants in the wine industry that use virtually all of the left over products in the manufacture of wine. The by-products are the grape skin and the seeds. Luckily the seeds are the most potent of the by-products and are most sought after to make grape seed nutritional supplements.
Don't let the benefits of wine end with the sip. More often than ever you are seeing grape seed extract making its way into skin care products. As the sun oxidizes skin cells and produces free radicals, logic tends to indicate that the anti-oxidant free radical scavengers from the phyneols of grape seeds can work through the skin also.
I once ask a cardiologist friend of mine: "is it possible to get too much phenols/anti-oxidants per day?" My theory is that if a little is beneficial than a lot more is better. No, he still says 8 ounces a day is his recommended limit.
There are literally hundreds of compounds in a glass of red wine. As wine ages the number of compounds change into more complex molecules, then add to that the effects of oak compounds. Don't take the value and complexity of wine too cavalier. This drink has been around since the beginning of civilization and until about 1960 we did not know the health benefits and the magic of wine. In fact, the discovery of resveratrol did not come about until 1990.
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