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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Jul 2019

    Resveratrol is in the news again, so a few important points: - there's barely any resveratrol in red wine - an active dose is 30 BOTTLES of wine - this research is all IN MICE and cells in petri dishes - very little evidence that resveratrol does anything at allpic.twitter.com/rB8HZBlze5

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      2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Jul 2019

        Study is here:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002839081930139X?via%3Dihub …

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Jul 2019

        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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      4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Jul 2019

        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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      5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Jul 2019

        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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      6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Jul 2019

        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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      7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Jul 2019

        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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      8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 30 Jul 2019

        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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      1. Haircut Anticipator‏ @GordyPls 30 Jul 2019
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        Feeding red wine to me does make me happy tho.

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      2. Gunter Kuhnle‏ @ggkuhnle 31 Jul 2019

        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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