I’ve seen no bruising at the doses (100mg) I’ve been taking. I jumped right in at 100mg and have been pretty consistent in taking one a day with my vitamins and aspirin. I haven’t read anything about dosage limits, in fact my thinking is that 100mg probably isn’t enough! For now though I’m basically in the skeptical but hopeful camp. I would be very surprised if they found that resveratrol was harmful in any way, even at high doses. We’ve been consuming it in wine for centuries.

The packaging sugsests that you take one pill a day and that pregnant or nursing mothers abstain. Hope this helps.

Yes I’ve been taking it in pill form. http://www.longevinex.com is the stuff I’ve been using.

Not to toot Pinot’s horn too much, but color is not an indicator of resveratrol content. From what I’ve read Pinot grapes have the greatest concentration of the molecule, and they are often some of the most elegant of all red wines.

Still drinking wine won;t give you the health benefits that researchers seem to have found in the mice they were studying. You need to take massive doses, and even then its efficacy isn’t proven.

Hope this helps and thanks for the comment!

Is there any advice on which wine would be the best to drink for best resv. effects? It is from the grape skins, correct? Does that mean one should drink full bodied wines like a petite syrah instead of a zin or something? if they want the most of this compound? Forgive me for any naivete/ignorance, thanks.

Interesting that your conclusion was that resveratrol was good for you in moderation. What the researchers at MIT and elsewhere seem to be saying is that the only way to see health benefits of the kind we’re all hoping for is to ingest immoderate amounts (on the order of hundreds of glasses a day)!

The article also mentions that Sirtris believes that resveratrol acts mainly on just one enzyme, and that targeting it may be the key to unleashing most of the benefits. Obviously their research is proprietary, but they are making an awful big money bet that they are right.

I sure hope they are!

Thanks for the feedback.

Thats neither here nor there. I did a research project on resveratrol for my biochemistry class at Berkeley (my last undergrad class…thank god), and there seems to be a lot of conflicting evidence surrounding this little molecule. To make a very, very long story short, studies show it has anti-cancer, antiviral, neuroprotective, anti-aging, anti-inflammatory and life-prolonging effects. But it is not clear whether these effects are seen due to resveratrol alone, or in combination of other phenolic compounds interacting with resveratrol in your body. What i got from my research is that its very good for you…in moderation. Just like anything else i guess.