Best anti aging:Resveratrol and the Myth of Eternal Youth by Lorne Caplan

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I had a client announce to me today that they are taking both grape seed extract and resveratrol every day for anti-aging beauty benefits. Certainly, with all of the hype, who could blame her?

Well, we all can question the validity of any product that claims to be for anti-aging beauty, anti-cancer and any number of anti’s for disease states far and wide. Of course, those who read about the newest and latest therapies for regenerative treatments tend to be more open minded than the average person and that can sometimes motivate people to take excessive risk. That isn’t to say that I am a complete skeptic. Rather, I’m quite open to the newest and best therapies for internal and external treatment of age related disease, but if we know the concentrated version of resveratrol has to provide the equivalent of over 100 glasses of wine a day, well then, that is why I’m skeptical.

You see, I’m a believer in the holistic way of life and that means the whole body, whole foods and whole mind. The problem we have been seeing is that when only an active ingredient is provided, it cannot work as well and may be dangerous without the synergistic vitamins and minerals that come from the whole food experience.