Does Resveratrol Really Rebuild Damaged Heart Cells?
Can resveratrol regenerate damaged heart cells? The simple answer to this one is no. Once they’re damaged, heart muscle cells cannot regenerate on their own. Some new advancements in stem cell research suggests that cardiac function can be improved or restored but at the moment this is the only way. So what’s all this talk about resveratrol rebuilding heart cells? It doesn’t but what it can do is help to prevent the heart muscles being damaged in the first place. It’s preventative not regenerative. The heart disease prevention properties seem to stem from at least 2 different activities. The first being its antioxidant properties. It’s believed that the antioxidants in resveratrol act better than many of the other more well known ones such as vitamin C and E. It interacts with the lipoproteins or as they’re better known bad cholesterol, in the blood. Free radicals in the body can damage the lipoproteins. It’s these damaged lipoproteins that are one of main sources of blockages and buil
