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Now, we can argue the relative benefit of lab-bench research and communication to the public, but I'm still unconvinced that this particular research has much meaning to the average person
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Just look at the abstract. If you aren't a researcher in this exact field, this is virtually unreadablepic.twitter.com/LdecxjIOi5
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It can be basically summed up as "stress causes chemical responses in cells, which resveratrol seems to block somewhat", but even that's a bit of an oversimplification
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And while the mice were technically a bit better off with resveratrol, it's a bit hard to relate the tests (below) directly to the human experience of depression and anxietypic.twitter.com/9uk5Uh3SEU
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Also, just did a back-of-the-envelope calculation and, based on this study, you'd have to drink 100-200 LITRES of wine PER DAY to get the dose of resveratrol usedpic.twitter.com/be539ixS5g
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I also had a look, cannot find a SINGLE STUDY looking at resveratrol for depression in humans, despite literally dozens of studies in mice That is very much not a good signpic.twitter.com/kzPqxkeRiI
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Feeding red wine to me does make me happy tho.
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Not really: there are bioactive ingredients that might have an effect. And more importantly, consuming them might be a marker of specific risk profiles.
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