Resveratrol Doubles Endurance

Resveratrol, the ingredient in red wine that may help us live longer, may also help us fun faster longer.
The New York Times reports that when researchers gave resveratrol to laboratory mice, the mice were able to run twice as far as resveratrol-free mice before collapsing from exhaustion. The research, conducted at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Illkirch, France, and published in Cell, suggests that resveratrol influenced mice also have energy-charged muscles and a reduced heart rate, just as trained athletes do. Read more in the New York Times.