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You may have heard of the concept of French Paradox. This explains the contradictory phenomenon in which the French enjoy a meat and high-fat diet while having low cardiovascular disease rates and long lifespan.
While studying this phenomenon, the ingredient that attracted attention is the antioxidant ‘resveratrol’ contained in red wine.
According to the study, the cause of French paradoxes was not only resveratrol, but also a combination of factors such as a culture of enjoying exercise and low stress levels.
Even if wine alone is not enough to consume resveratrol, it is clear that it is a good excuse for wine lovers to enjoy a glass or two of wine.
Resveratrol is also famous for an ingredient that Dr. David Sinclair, the author of “The End of Aging,” takes every day to prevent aging. Dr. Sinclair takes a trans form of resveratrol product that is active in the human body, and it is said that he mixes it with yogurt due to low absorption problems.
Resveratrol is one of the polyphenols that plants create to protect themselves in barren environments, and it is found in red grape skins, peanut sprouts, and intestinal muscles in nature.
Although many scientists are paying attention to the excellent antioxidant effects of resveratrol, the true value of this ingredient lies in its anticancer and anti-aging effects.
Resveratrol’s cancer stem cell inhibitory effect received great attention in the Halifax Project, where cancer researchers around the world studied ingredients that help with anticancer.
Resveratrol has been found to help the anticancer process through several mechanisms, such as inhibiting cancer cell proliferation and inducing cancer cell apoptosis, and is currently used in conjunction with standard chemotherapy worldwide.
Although it is a resveratrol that is beneficial to health in many ways, the disadvantage is that the absorption rate is low. The absorption rate of resveratrol is only 1%, and even after it is absorbed into the body, it decomposes rapidly and loses its activity.
Moreover, the development of the agricultural environment has made it easier for humans to obtain food ingredients, but it is also unfortunate that the number of beneficial nutrients in plants is gradually decreasing. In particular, it has been reported that significantly fewer polyphenols, such as resveratrol, are found in plants grown in optimal environments such as greenhouses than before.
As a result, nanocomposite products have recently been developed that can increase content by concentrating nutrients extracted from nature and simultaneously improve absorption and stability in the body.
The “resveratrol-alginic acid nanocomposite,” which combines transveratrol and low-molecular alginic acid to be directly absorbed into the cell, has been developed as the most ideal formulation to date. This nanocomposite not only has a high absorption rate, but it does not degrade quickly in the body and acts stably for hours, complementing the shortcomings of a single component of resveratrol.
Low-molecular alginic acid is also in the spotlight as a formulation that has a synergistic effect with resveratrol because it has excellent cell protection. Nutritional brand Celmed is launching high content of nanocomposite components as products specialized for various functions, helping many patients in the treatment process.
[CHOI EUN-A Selmed Pharmacist]