After reading more and more posts, I want to believe that resveratrol is what it is claimed to be. However, maybe I am missing something or many things. While I understand what some people are claiming that 99%, 98%, 97% pure (what did the mice have?) Why would they sell a 50% version if that is not what the mice had? Powder vs capsule (what did the mice have?), taken with this vitamin and or that vitamin, with this substance or with that substance, taken all at once, taken once a-day, twice a -day, 3 times a-day, 50mg or 1500mg, amodin (good against cancer but get diarrhea) or no amodin. Bottom line question is simple : did it or did it not prolong life in mice? I believe the answer was that it did prolong life in mice. Now did it not prolong life in mice just fine in the form (powder or capsule), in the purity (99%, 98%, 97% or was it the 50% with the amodin) and with X-brand or Y-brand. Therefore, can we not say that when a human is given resveratrol in the same form (capsule or powder), the same brand (X or Y), the same strength (99%, 98%, 97% or 50% with amodin) at the same frequency and time of day, using the same amount of resveratrol that would be the approximately the same ratio equivalent amount given to human as was given to the mice in the study. Now if all the variables are the same in the humans as were in the mice, then common sense would suggest that if life was prolonged in the mice then if resveratrol were to work in humans it should not need ANY OTHER VARIABLES (chemicals, larger or smaller doses, vitamins, minerals, metals, other drugs, etc...) Because if there are other variables needed, that makes me skeptical. As far as the claims about curing skin cancer by rubbing it on the cancer leasion, and shrinking tumors, etc... If that were true about the cancer, then why would Reveratrol not be in every hospital, clinic, or any medical facility with cancer patients at this moment treating every person with it?
In addition, by all this talk about Resveratrol giving people energy and how they can work out better, run, bicycle, etc... also with the "rush" buzz effect or super caffiene type anxiety effect it can have is Resveratrol a substance that prolongs life or a sper energy drink compound of some sort? My point is mostly that what differnce does it make it someone can workout better? Did the mice have to work out to extend their life? In other words, why would the person that does not get the time to exercise or eat properly care about taking Resveratrol if they need to have to work out intensely and or always eat properly to get the prolong life effect. In other words, what I should not only be hearing people saying in these forums (in addition to having more energy and stamina) is that they feel younger (maybe their eyesight is getting better, less or no aches and pains, recovery times always less and never more, etc...) but also they should be saying that they look younger (their skin is getting thicker, they are losing their wrinkles and gray hair, etc...) and this should be happening regardless if they are exercising or eating properly as long as they are relatively a healthy person. Or is this not the substance that has that kind of effect on the body that HGH is claimed to have in some degree?
Finally, I will repost (sorry I do not mean to be redundant but I need to make my point here) an article on Clioquinol. Is anyone interested in getting a forum started on being a human guinea pig for this potential "anti aging" drug? Below is about the drug Clioquinol:
"Clioquinol, an 80-year old drug once used to treat diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders, inhibits action of the CLK1 aging gene, may reverse Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases."
"According to Dr. Siegfried Hekimi and colleagues at McGill's Department of Biology, clioquinol acts directly on a protein called CLK-1, often informally called "clock-1," and might slow down the aging process"
"Clioquinol is a very powerful inhibitor of clock-1," explained Hekimi, McGill's Strathcona Chair of Zoology and Robert Archibald & Catherine Louise Campbell Chair in Developmental Biology. "Because clock-1 affects longevity in invertebrates and mice, and because we're talking about three age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases, we hypothesize that clioquinol affects them by slowing down the rate of aging."
"The exact mechanism of how clioquinol inhibits CLK-1 is still under investigation, Hekimi said. "One possibility is that metals are involved as clioquinol is a metal chelator," he explained. Chelation is a type of binding to metal ions and is often used to treat heavy metal poisoning."
"Hekimi is optimistic but cautious when asked whether clioquinol could eventually become an anti-aging treatment."
"The drug affects a gene which when inhibited can slow down aging," he said. "The implication is that we can change the rate of aging. This might be why clioquinol is able to work on this diversity of diseases that are all age-dependent."
Thanks for listening and I hope you can answer my questions in all due respect.
Joe