Mediterranean Diet

In 2003, researchers from Harvard University started a research about sirtuin, a protein that claims to be an anti aging factor. David Sinclair and Marcia Haigis are the two principal scientists involved. The supposed properties of this protein is not only fighting the aging process but also some diseases, as some types of cancer. This is something that needs a logical process of testing in human beings.

The University of Washington has reported that the principal sirtuin activator is resveratrol, a substance that can be found in red wine and in grapes, especially in red ones.

The Spanish CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), the most important Spanish Government research Organization, found by accident that resveratrol (they called Stilvid) can be obtained concentrations 2000 times higher than normal, by the method of exposing the grapes to ultraviolet light. They were looking for increasing the grapes pigmentation without succeed, but found the resverastrol massive production. They registered the discovery and launched, through a pharmaceutics Company, a product with capsules containing each one the resveratrol of 24 bottles of red wine or 45 Kgs. of red grapes. The product is completely legalized by the Spanish authorities and its name is Revidox. There must be a problem with the name. There is another product also called Revidox, manufactured by Macleods Pharmaceuticals Ltd.  They are sold in 100 mg tablets packing and contains Doxycycline Hyclate, a member of the tetracycline antibiotics family.

The price of the Spanish Revidox varies from US$40 to US$60 (30 capsules)

Whether if the complement works or not, it is something that only time will say.

Other sources claim melatonin or some other antioxidants produce the same effect and are cheaper