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We cannot protect you from aging itself, but we can help to protect you from the ills of aging.
ProTect, featuring Resveratrol, provides one of the highest antioxidant levels available anywhere. Resveratrol is such a promising and powerful phytonutrient that researchers say it could help prevent obese people from developing Type 2 Diabetes, heart disease and more.
One serving of ProTect contains 5,700 mg of grape antioxidant blend, supplying 87 mg of Resveratrol, in a unique proprietary formula (90,000 ORAC* per bottle).
There are so many scientifically proven benefits of Resveratrol that it's hard to fit it all into a single page. First, let's discuss the possibility of increasing a healthy lifespan. Experiments and research studies going back to the 1930s have shown that there is extensive evidence that restricting calories slows down aging and can extend both life and youthfulness.
Numerous studies across a wide range of animal species have shown consistent results; that the subjects on caloric restriction (CR) live about 30 to 50 percent longer, age more slowly, and are generally freer of disease. They remain much healthier than their freely eating counterparts in the studies, showing an equally dramatic delay in the onset of age-related diseases. The problem for most people is that they are not likely to opt for depriving themselves of the pleasures of food for the distant goal of a longer, healthier life.
Research, particularly by scientists at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging, has found that Resveratrol mimics the effects of CR. In highly controlled studies, Resveratrol has shown the most promise of any molecule in turning on genetic mechanisms that are turned on under normal circumstances only by limiting calorie intake - namely, a longer, healthier life. Resveratrol may provide all the benefits of CR while allowing you to both have and eat your cake!
What Is Resveratrol?
Research on it is making headlines and creating a buzz.
Found in the skin of grapes, Resveratrol belongs to a class of antioxidants produced by the plant to protect against infection. Numerous studies have shown resveratrol lowers cholesterol, particularly the bad LDL kind, and very likely helps stave off heart disease and cancer.
Research shows that daily supplementation with Resveratrol could offset the unhealthy, high calorie diet thought to underlie the rising toll of obesity and heart disease in the United States and elsewhere.
The French Paradox
Battling heart disease, obesity, and so much more.
Resveratrol, as well as the other polyphenols in wine, is thought to account in large part for the so-called French Paradox. The French Paradox is the puzzling fact that people in France enjoy a high fat diet yet suffer less heart disease than Americans.
The rate of coronary heart disease mortality in France is lower than observed in other industrialized countries with a similar risk factor profile, and this has been attributed to the frequent consumption of red wine.
Ever since researchers decided that drinking red wine was what allowed the French to eat a high-fat diet and still avoid heart disease, they have been homing in on the rich stew of phytochemicals found in every glass of the vine. Chief among them is Resveratrol, a potent antioxidant that seems particularly adept at scavenging free radicals.
Researchers decided early on that Resveratrol was the secret ingredient behind the French Paradox because of its ability to protect the heart from oxidized fat.
Continuing Research Proves The Benefits of Resveratrol
Since the brain consists largely of fat and fatty acids, other scientists reasoned that it would need the same protection as that found in the French Paradox. In fact, researchers have discovered that Alzheimer's progresses as an abnormally high level of free radicals - a condition called oxidative stress - kills brain cells.
A study in 2003 demonstrated that Resveratrol lowered the level of oxidative stress in brain cells, and two recent studies in the Journal of Biological Chemistry suggest that Resveratrol may offer protection from the disease. Alas, neither of these studies suggests that you can ingest enough Resveratrol by drinking red wine or by eating any of the natural sources of the flavonoid - grapes, peanuts, and some berries. You can, however, take a standardized extract of Resveratrol as a supplement with ProTect.
Research already published about Resveratrol and its many benefits, includes; how it protects against coronary heart disease, protects DNA from free-radical damage, elevates the HDL "good" cholesterol, and controls insulin resistance. The properties of Resveratrol are currently being intensely studied in major laboratories as a potential breakthrough in the treatment of diabetes.
Also, pathologists at the University of Washington say that Resveratrol has been shown to prevent damage to liver tissue; the compound could be staving off age-related diseases by keeping the liver healthy.
Resveratrol seems to confer protective effects across a wide range of animals, leading to hopes that it might prove a potent boon for humans as well. Research has clearly shown that its supplementation with food extends vertebrate life span and delays motor and cognitive age-related decline which could be of high relevance for the prevention of aging-related diseases in the human population.
Resveratrol is the ingredient in red wine that made headlines in November 2006 when scientists demonstrated that it kept overfed mice from gaining weight, turned them into the equivalent of Olympic marathoners, and seemed to slow down their aging process. Few medical discoveries have generated so much instant buzz.
Why ProTect?
- Highly concentrated: In one ounce of juice you’re getting the amount of Resveratrol found in huge quantities of red wine and raw grapes. It becomes much easier to get the larger amounts of active ingredients needed for health purposes and, considering how many glasses of wine or grapes you would have to consume, it is virtually impossible to get these otherwise.
- Convenient: Drinking the juice is an excellent and easy way to ensure that you’ll receive the daily benefits. It’s easy for most folks to take 30 seconds to drink an ounce of juice.
- Easily assimilated: Your body quickly and easily absorbs the juice; the active ingredients go right to work without needing hours of digestion.
*Developed by USDA scientists, ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) is a test that measures the antioxidant activity of a supplement or food.
