UPDATE: DECEMBER 30, 2006
Iherb.com is now selling a brand new Resveratrol supplement called: Resveratrol Plus made by Country Life.
It has a whopping 100mg of Trans-resveratrol per Vcap. I emailed Country life and their nutritionist confirmed 100mg of Trans-Resveratrol for each Vcap.
Nature´s Way lists just 37.5mg of Resveratrol per Vcap. Country life is almost triple the dose per Vcap of Resveratrol. Plus, Country Life´s still gives same amount of Grape Seed Extract per Vcap. So, take 3 or 6 Vcaps daily as shown giving 150mg or 300mg of Grape Seed Extract daily which lowers blood pressure (Currently, Licap Resveratrol brands you´d need to buy GSE separately making them even more expensive):
http://www.newswise....es/view/519079/The extra bonus is you even get around 25mg of Pine Bark Extract per Country Life Vcap. Nature´s Way gives no Pine Bark Extract. So, the Pine bark extract addition and the almost triple the dose of Resveratrol per Vcaps makes the $2.60 more per bottle still a steal. Order a large amount and get 10%+ off. Iherb.com never charges slaes tax even to California residents. They are free UPS ground shipping over $60 orders.
I was the one that first gave this forum. The heads up on Longevinex´s own test showed Nature´s Way Resveratrol being about the dose of Longevinex.
I wouldn´t waste one red cent on NSI brand products. They are based out of Florida. The United States Homeland for scams. NSI´s ORAC scores for many of their basic and cheap NSI Brand Multivitamins seem exaggerated ! I´ve emailed vitacost.com before who are the exclusive sellers of their house brand being NSI and asked if they were GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) like many supplement companies like NOW, Country Life, etc. They said no. I don´t trust them one bit.
I´m now starting a regimen of taking 1 or 2 Country Life Vcaps with 1 or 2 Jarrow Quercetin capsules, and 1 Jarrow PC 35 softgel three times daily around every 8 hours. Journals say both Lecithin and Quercetin improve Resveratrol´s absorption, and that Resveratrol stays active up to 9 hours in the body.
Please stop the bickering in this forum over whether or not Licaps are better. Once again, it´s already been proven by Longevinex´s own March 15, 2006 study that all the brands were within about 5mg of their claimed Trans-Resveratrol content.
This means Country Life even if just has say even 90mg of Trans-resveratrol per Vcap that´s still the highest, yet.
The biggest thing one needs to remember with Longevinex is that it doesn´t say 40mg of Trans-Resveratrol anywhere on the label just at Longevinex.com
This means Longevinex people could have known the results sometime before showing. Posted on the website saying 40mg Trans-Resveratrol merely because that´s the closest round number to what Longevinex was testing out at.
Longevinex refuses to even mention who Product B is. Even, after being asked by email !
Again, NSI and Longevinex use Licaps because they hold liquids. Pinot Noir remains the largest dietary source of Trans-Resveratrol because Journals show the sulfites used as preservatives help preserve the Trans-resveratrol. So, an Organic Pinot Noir isn´t advised. Trader Joe´s has a Pinot Noir for just $4.99 to $6.99 plus tax.
You need an airtight container with liquids to prevent from spoiling. Just like liquid ascorbic acid doesn´t last long neither does liquid Resveratrol. This is why they make Ascorbic acid capsules and resveratrol capsules. They don´t spoil like a liquid might. The over 90 types of Rhinoviruses that cause the common cold or the flu only live up to 48 hours on a dry surface. HIV even though a virus (RNA type) has shown to live up to 11 days in raw sewage, yet in dry form has yet to be a documented transmission.
Apparently, good things (Ascorbic Acid, Resveratrol) tend to last longer is dry form. Bad things (Fungus, Bacteria, Viruses, etc) tend to last longer in a moist or liquid environment like the human body provides.
In Summary, remember three things when in doubt:
1. Longevinex´s own study proves virtually all different brands which aren´t even using Licaps like Longevinex does. Do have about the Resveratrol amount shown on the label.
2. When thinking about Longevinex who use Titanium Dioxide think:
http://caprofile.net...IDEwarning.html http://www.mercola.c..._sunscreens.htm3. What I said earlier about liquid vs. dry Resveratrol:
http://www.drweil.com/u/QA/QA326613/I have an article of Dr. Weil's Feb. 2006 newsletter Self Healing that says:
Q: Are liquid vitamins better than pills forms ?
A: "In my opinion, the only real advantage of liquid vitamins is for those who have difficulty swallowing pills, like elderly people or children. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend them in place of vitamin tablets or capsules as they are typically more expensive and, despite manufacturers' claims, they're not better absorbed or more potent. Vitamin pills might also have a longer shelf life than liquid forms."
Remind you any of Longevinex's claims being liquid and highly absorbable ?
I believe the only reason why Dr. David Sinclair, his family, and half his lab may take Longevinex at 5mg per KG of body weight is simply because Dr. Sinclair helped Bill Sardi the owner of Longevinex create the product. So, Dr. Sinclair may get free or close enough to free Longevinex. Who wouldn´t take it at that point.
If you´re so worried about Trans-Resveratrol converting to Cis-Resveratrol just do the same things you would with even Longevinex. Keep in a cool environment.
Keep your empty glass Country Life Resveratrol Plus bottles. When you´ve collected 14 bottles you´ll have enough to have a weeks supplement regimen with you like even while traveling. So, you just need to do your supplements once a week instead of daily.
When doing your supplements only have lights on from a distance not directly, and dimly lit. Better safe than sorry. Your enemies are heat and light. Place huge orders in winter. Avoid ordering in the Summer. Better to have a little older supplements not exposed to high heat than new supplements exposed to high heat !
Some studies indicate you may need to take 300+mg to obtain a better deal of benefits. Up until Country Life´s Resveratrol Plus that wasn´t really for anybody but the rich. In a nutshell, take whichever supplement states the most actual Resveratrol per Capsule on the label which at this time is Country Life.