NPR's On Point radio had a show on "The Future of Aging" where Dr. Olshansky, a U Illinois aging researcher, who recently wrote The Quest for Immortality, was one of three guests. A caller at 16:30 said that she doesn't normally take supplements but that she started taking resveratrol.
The host joked "Are you feeling 19 again?" and she said she didn't feel any different. "Honestly it doesn't make a difference, I was a halthy person before I started taking it... none of my( blood test) numbers really changed..." (she didn't mention her dose)
Dr. Olshansky: ... There is some very solid research indicating with the potential benefits associated with using resveratrol. There are still clinical trials on going, and I think we have to wait until those trials are finished before we start using it for any reason what so ever, but this is one of those examples of a compund that
-- and there may be compunds relate to resveratrol -- that may have some beneficial effect. It's important to realize that you'd have to drink about 1000 bottles of wine a day to get any impact from resveratrol at all, if indeed, if it does have an impact.
Host: What about when its concentrated in a pill? A thousand pills, or one?
Dr. Olshansky: (laughs) This line of reasoning that we can concentrate everything into a little pill is the same as with vitamins and nutritional supplements. We seem to think there's some vital substance and that if we just concentrate it into something it will have the same effect. The evidence isn't there yet. I would wait to see, wait until the studies come in to determine whether or not it is safe, and whether or not it's efficacious - that it does what they say it does.
[[they talk about calorie restriction next....The host doesn't know any science, so he couldn't push Dr. Olshansky on resv.]]
http://www.onpointra...future-of-aging
Edited by opendoor, 08 November 2009 - 01:10 AM.
