Researchers at the University of Mi...

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia's institute of Medicine believe that prevention ok brain damage normally caused at a stroke may be end at hand. In fact, it may be as bring to a period as the grapes in your local show section.

For years, scientists have advocated drinking a glass of r wine one time or twice a day to stir up cardiovascular health. The antioxidant resveratrol is the beneficial ingredient in r wine that sop up harmful clear radicals.

But the Missouri cogitation found that resveratrol can also defend brain cells after a stroke

When a hit occurs because of a blockage of offspring flow to the brain, no oxygen or nutrients can pierce the affected region. Soon after, neuron in the affected area of the brain begin to release "excited" amino acid neurotransmitters, which encourage calcium to impel into the neurons. This calcium influx generates delivered radicals that can be to a high degree damaging, resulting in delayed small room death, a process that appears over the next few days. And resveratrol can help combat these free-radical-induced effects

the couple wine and grapes contain 'dais antioxidant--found for the most part in the skin of the grape-though alcohol should be consum in moderation. an supplements also contain grape skin extract.

The cogitation which was funded with US tax dollars, appeared in the November 2003 edition of the Journal of Brain Research.

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