Let Abel Pharmboy put all the hype over the study showing that resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, can extend the lifespan of mice by 20-30% in better perspective for you.
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You just never know - some weeks you don't get The Friday Fermentable; other weeks you get two posts.
The latest Science in the News Flash is up, and it examines the anti-aging research surrounding the molecule resveratrol, which is present at low concentrations in red wine:
A Nature podcast today details new fascinating research about a pill that may extend lifespan by up to 20%.
A press release came in from the US
I'll drink to that!
*ducks*
Read that article this morning. I suppose that if you drank 100 glasses of wine a day, you wouldn't much care about aging one way or another, eh?
Thank god we cleared that up - any physician or study that claims red wine is bad for you is a quack (I don't even need to read the trial - my 69 strand DNA chakra tells me so)
Thank you for linking to this -- already public gullibility is high (always ready for the next "miraculous" thing, people think what's printed in the newspaper is fact, and worse yet, think "may be" and "could be" equals is.) Journalists who write about scientific discoveries generally need to be a lot more careful than they (or most) are in writing their stories. taking into account their audience.