We recently wrote an article about resveratrol supplements and weight loss, and wanted to keep writing about this miracle compound since the fact that it helps you burn fat, isn’t all it can do. We can’t go down to all the details in this post, but there will be more. This post will be about the immunological benefits that resveratrol can have.
Let’s start with a quick recap. Resveratrol is a compound which can be found in red wine, and it is often misspelled as resveratol or reservatol. The number of studies conducted is slowly approaching ten thousand, and we know for a fact that it does a lot of good for you.
Since resveratrol is classified as an antioxidant it helps your body to fight against oxidization. This means that there will be less free radicals for your immune system to take care of. These free radicals are highly reactive compounds which will react with anything they come in to contact with – it can be your cells or the DNA inside the cell. When this happens the structure it came in contact with is altered and usually destroyed by the immune system, but when it happens with DNA, every now and then an alteration is made which turns the cell in to a cancer cell. This can happen in every tissue, and there are studies such as this one, which show that by using resveratrol you will even increase the destruction of these cancer cells when they are in your blood – in this case cancerous white blood cells.
Because antioxidants in general are known to improve ones immunity against diseases, the strong antioxidants in resveratrol supplements work in the same way. You might know that by taking vitamin-c you can help your body fight a flu, and by taking resveratrol you can make the same thing happen. Combine the two and you might even get more benefits!