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Anti Aging Breakthrough

March 31st, 2008 | by admin |

Anti Aging Breakthrough

Anti Ageing Breakthrough – How Resveratrol Antioxidants slow the Aging Process

It is an unavoidable truth that we will all start to grow old and with old age we will all suffer the effects to some degree. One of these effects comes in the form of wrinkles. Basically aging is the process in which our bodies start to deteriorate. It means our metabolic processes and physiological functions start to slow down. However there are now a number of anti aging products on the market that claim to be able to slow down the process of aging by helping to stop the deterioration of our bodies and the onset of wrinkles, one of these products is known as resveratrol.

There has been and continues to be a lot of research carried out revolving around resveratrol, which demonstrates that it could actually be one of the most powerful antioxidants that has ever been found. So what makes this product so good? Well let’s start with where it comes from. It originates from several different types of plants including the Japanese knotweed. On top of this it is also found within a number of foods such as peanuts, blueberries, lingon berries, sparkleberries, cranberries, deer berries, partridge-berries, and bilberries. However out of all the places it is found it is the most present within the skin of grapes that go on to be used to make red wine.

When red wine is produced it is said that resveratrol is plentiful within it; however there are now also a lot of resveratrol supplements on the market that contain a very high concentration of resveratrol, higher than what is found within red wine. Basically in order for you to receive the same amount of it that you would get in supplement form it would require you to drink 1,000 bottles of wine a day, something that is pretty much impossible and should never be attempted.

One of the main reasons as to why resveratrol is considered to be so effective when it comes to slowing the aging process is due to the amount of antioxidants that are present within it. This is because they are needed at a high level in order to ensure complete health and as a means of preventing disease. The antioxidants that are present within this substance prevents and repairs cell damage that is caused by free radicals in the body. It is these free radicals that wreak havoc within our bodies due to the fact they damage cells, which not only causes disease but also aging.

Since its discovery and link to antioxidants there have been a lot of research conducted on resveratrol and its effect on aging. The research that has been conducted suggests that it is a powerful antioxidant, which helps to ease the damaging effects of free radicals in the body especially when it comes to the aging process. Also for several years now studies have continued to be carried out that demonstrate conclusively that resveratrol can slow down the aging process.

As I have previously mentioned there are a number of sources of resveratrol so whatever choice you make, whether its to take supplements or to drink red wine just make sure you do it in moderation otherwise you may end up causing more harm than good.

Do you think there will be any major anti-aging breakthroughs in the future?

Some current theories on senescence (AKA: ageing)

Telomere Theory
Telomeres (structures at the ends of chromosomes) have experimentally been shown to shorten with each successive cell division. Shortened telomeres activate a mechanism that prevents further cell multiplication. This may be an important mechanism of ageing in tissues like bone marrow and the arterial lining where active cell division is necessary. Importantly though, mice lacking telomerase enzyme do not show a dramatically reduced lifespan, as the simplest version of this theory would predict.

Reproductive-Cell Cycle Theory
The idea that ageing is regulated by reproductive hormones that act in an antagonistic pleiotropic manner via cell cycle signalling, promoting growth and development early in life in order to achieve reproduction, but later in life, in a futile attempt to maintain reproduction, become dysregulated and drive senescence (dyosis).

Wear-and-Tear Theory
The very general idea that changes associated with ageing are the result of chance damage that accumulates over time.

Somatic Mutation Theory
The biological theory that ageing results from damage to the genetic integrity of the body’s cells.

Error Accumulation Theory
The idea that ageing results from chance events that escape proof reading mechanisms, which gradually damages the genetic code.

The Viral Theory of Aging
Known causes of cancer (radiation, chemical and viral) account for about 30% of the total cancer burden and for about 30% of the total DNA damage. DNA damage causes the cells to stop dividing or induce apoptosis. DNA damage is thought to be the common pathway causing both cancer and aging. It seems unlikely that the estimates of the DNA damage due to radiation and chemical causes has been significantly underestimated. Viral infection would appear to be the most likely cause of the other 70% of DNA damage especially in cells that are not exposed to smoking and sun light.

Evolutionary Theories
These are speculative and they do not provide readily testable methods of confirmation.

Accumulative-Waste Theory
The biological theory of ageing that points to a buildup of cells of waste products that presumably interferes with metabolism.

Autoimmune Theory
The idea that ageing results from an increase in autoantibodies that attack the body’s tissues. A number of diseases associated with ageing, such as atrophic gastritis and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, are probably autoimmune in this way. While inflammation is very much evident in old mammals, even SCID mice in SPF colonies still senescence.

Ageing-Clock Theory
The theory that ageing results from a preprogrammed sequence, as in a clock, built into the operation of the nervous or endocrine system of the body. In rapidly dividing cells the shortening of the telomeres would provide just such a clock. This idea is in direct contradiction with the evolutionary based theory of ageing.

Cross-Linkage Theory
The idea that ageing results from accumulation of cross-linked compounds that interfere with normal cell function.

Until they can figure out why we age there’s not going to be any resolve on the issue.
But they’ll keep saying that they’ve found the answer.
There’s big money involved.