My Reservations About Resveratrol

I have experimented with resveratrol in the past but I discontinued it too early to notice any results. Recently I have read up on the subject and I find it discouraging. Granted, my scholarship is not by any means exhaustive. Google Scholar pulled up over 76,000 hits and I did not read a fraction of the articles. I need an impartial scientist to help me out here but none has come forward just yet.

In the course of my limited reading I came across an article (not in a scientific journal) stating that the amount of resveratrol needed to duplicate the infamous mouse studies would be 1.5 to 28.8 grams. I then did a search on resveratrol wholesalers and the best price was just under $600/kilo. At the lower end of the spectrum that is about $1/day. At the upper end...let's just say that it is beyond my budget.

I don't want to store resveratrol in my fridge and worry about moisture and power failures and decay and anything else that might affect my $600 investment. Then again, I used to buy trytophan, arginine and other amino acids in bulk. So I might reconsider that position. However, the subject is clouded by the subject of bioavailability, and it is a complicated subject.

Dosage and bioavailability are two subjects I will have to put aside for the time being. Stay tuned.