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If a chemical found in red wines called resveratrol could make yeast, fish, mice, and worms live longer, scientists conclude, then the darned thing could also work in humans. After all, we know a lot of humans look almost exactly like mice and yeast, and some of them go about their daily lives like slithering worms.

The thing is, you’d need megadoses of the chemical; like maybe drinking 20 bottles of red wine just to match what was given to mice.

The researchers, led by Harvard University pathologist David A. Sinclair, studied 165 male mice beginning when they were 1 year old, the equivalent of middle-aged humans. A third of them were given a healthy diet, a third were given a diet high in calories and fats, and a third were given the high-fat diet plus resveratrol.
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“The molecule prevented most, if not all, of the negative side effects of being obese,” said Sinclair, who is a director of Sirtris. “As a consequence, they lived just as long as lean mice.”

via LAT

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