✦ LIBER ✦
Plant “Polyphenolic” Small Molecules Can Induce a Calorie Restriction-Mimetic Life-Span Extension by Activating Sirtuins: Will “Polyphenols” Someday Be Used as Chemotherapeutic Drugs in Western Medicine?
✍ Scribed by Stéphane Quideau
- Book ID
- 101820045
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 120 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1439-4227
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✦ Synopsis
While we are waiting for the development of ™longevity drugs∫, we should learn from fungi, and indeed recommend the intake of phenol-rich plant-derived food. And yes! we can add a few glasses of wine to our diet! In 1934, De ¬sire ¬ Cordier (1858 ± 1940), founder of the famous Cordier wine trading house, organized the first ™longevity festival∫ in Saint-Julien-Beychevelle (Me ¬doc, France), after having noted that life expectancy in this wineproducing area near Bordeaux was 45 % higher than the national average. All the centenarians from the Me ¬doc came to celebrate wine as the ™elixir of life∫...