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Episode #2: The Insider's Guide to Resveratrol

Episode #2 - The Insider's Guide to Resveratrol

Natural products like resveratrol can modulate anti-ageing, anti-cancer and other anti-oxidant effects. What is it, how does it work, and why it could be important?

The paper I'm discussing is from Pubmed and the Abstract is here: Effects of resveratrol, curcumin, berberine and other nutraceuticals on aging, cancer development, cancer stem cells and microRNAs. (2017). Ageing. 9(6): 1477-1536.

Number of PubMed articles appearing over the last 30 years on 'resveratrol': 1042 publications

Increasing distribution of PubMed articles over the past 30 years on resveratrol

Number of PubMed articles appearing over the last 30 years on the more well-known nutraceutical 'curcumin': 10,483 publications

Increasing distribution of PubMed articles over the past 30 years on curcumin

As you can see, there's been an increasing amount of interest in these compounds.

Other publications suggest that resveratrol may offer beneficial: