[ RadSafe ] Red Wine Prevents Radiation Damage

[Danny K McClung]

Kai, We have all heard of the antioxidant effect of resveratrol. A wonderful secondary benefit of red wine consumption. It seems to me that the modification of resveratrol by acetyl (if it works) is an attempt to produce another "radiation pill" taken before radiation exposure or even after. Perhaps the acetyl will increase or speed up the scavenging of free radicals? Anyone from AFRRI care to weigh in on this? Dan

Danny K. McClung, BS, RRPT
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>>> "Kai Kaletsch" <eic at shaw.ca> 9/25/2008 9:54 AM >>>
Friends,

My brain cells don't seem to be working very well this morning and I was 
hoping someone could help me interpret the article.

It states:

"A natural antioxidant commonly found in red wine and fruit may protect 
against radiation exposure.....Tests in mice showed that resveratrol, when 
altered using a compound called acetyl, could prevent some of the damage 
caused by radiation..."

Does this mean resveratrol is found in red wine? Or, does it mean acetyl is 
found in red wine? Or both or neither? Another article 
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET_Cetera/Impending_nuke_attack_Red_wine_can_help/articleshow/3521575.cms 
seems to say the resveratrol comes from the wine. It does not, however, say 
that it needed to be altered by acetyl in order to achieve the protective 
effect or if it was altered for other purposes (e.g. increase shelf life, 
easier to administer to mice etc, etc,)

More practically, does drinking red wine protect against radiation damage or 
do you need to extract some compounds and combine them with other compounds 
in a lab?

Thanks,
Kai

Kai Kaletsch
Environmental Instruments Canada Inc.

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