Resveratrol's ingredients are found largely in the skins of red grapes (wine grapes). Wine. No other beverage has attracted the attention of modern medicine like this drink. Although it is most widely known for its benefits for the heart, wine has benefits against cancer, dementia, and other age-related diseases. Researchers in Denmark recently looked at 25,000 people to find out what drinking alcohol does to mortality and discovered that wine drinkers slash their overall risk of dying from any cause by about 40%.

Chemists took wine apart years ago to find out what makes it tick. Basically, it contains a host of plant compounds. It has come to recent scientific attention as a possible explanation where there is a low incidence of heart disease among the French people, who eat a relatively high-fat diet. It turns out that part of the answer to the “French paradox” is resveratrol found in red wine. Why? One of the reasons is that the wine they drink contains resveratrol, which is a powerful antioxidant. Resveratrol also stops the proliferation of cells in blood vessels that narrow the arteries, and it also keeps blood cells from sticking together. Both are very important for preventing heart attacks.