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Alcohol…huh? yeah

If you are going to drink alcohol why not make it wine?  To be more specific  red wine

pinot noir

I will expound further and say make it Pinot Noir which is the type of red wine that contains the most amount of resveratrol an anti oxidant.  I always have a bottle or 2 at my house.  What are the benefit of resveratrol?   Well, so far this is what studies have shown and what  people are  saying

  • Increases overall endurance (higher VO2 max)
  • DNA repair
  • Lowers the risk of hear disease
  • slows down aging
  • Increases the amount of mitochondria—-the generate most of the cells energy (ATP)-this means your cells are less likely to die (when you age what happens?)  and it means you are able to do longer and harder workouts
  • blunts fat storage
  • impedes production of mature fat cells
  • inhibit growth of cancer cells
  • Attacks pathogens and viruses-there’s another study a while back that says it stops the cold virus from duplicating itself- So if you feel your throat getting scratchy….its also effective against the herpes simplex virus, which is what causes  cold sores (that’s why there’s even  resveratrol creams)