A little red wine goes a long way

. . . a mere four, five-ounce glasses of wine “starts getting close” to the amount of resveratrol they found effective . . . (NY Times)

This is good news. Previous studies had suggested that the amount of resveratrol needed to turn an ordinary old mouse into a champion athlete amounted to the equivelent of some 40 glasses of red wine per day for a human. But the new study takes other ingredients in wine into account. Apparently there is some kind of synergy between the small amount of pure resveratrol in wine and the other similar chemicals in the natural grapes.

Resveratrol can be obtained from capsules (see here and here).