Red Wine's Amazing Benefit!

Good Evening Everyone!

      This one goes out to all those red wine drinkers out there...  This is your lucky day!  According to a research article in the peer-reviewed Spine Journal, there's an ingredient in red wine that helps to stop spinal disc degeneration and reduce disc & associated nerve pain!  The ingredient is called Resveratrol and is found in grape skins (the most is found in Pinot Noir).  Resveratrol helps to reduce the production of inflammatory "cytokines," which are the main cause of disc degeneration and pain.  If that isn't good enough, resveratrol also increases the production of "proteoglycans" in the body, which potentially helps the discs to regenerate!  
      So it's true; drinking red wine will provide you with resveratrol which does all of the great things above, but for you to get the optimal about of resveratrol for it to be effective, you'd have to become drunk everyday.  This will help you with your back pain, but it will probably also cause you to lose your job and family (so please don't get drunk all day everyday :)).  Instead of having to become intoxicated, resveratrol can be taken as a supplement (100mg per day is sufficient).  This way, the occasional or casual red wine with dinners will just be icing on the cake.

Yours in Health,

Dr. Jeff 
Bruce Chiropractic Center
856-547-6587

P.S.  If you cannot locate this supplement at your local health food store, let me know and I can order some for you.

Reference:
"The Red Wine Polyphenol Shows Promising Potential for the Treatment of Nucleus Pulposus-Mediated Pain In Vitro and In Vivo,"  Spine, October 1st 2011; Volume 36, Number 21, pp. E1373-E1384.
            


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