Resveratrol: Lessons Of A Survival Mechanism That May Help All Fruits & Veggies Help You Be Healthy

Resveratrol Resveratrol is becoming all the rage in conversations around the wine tasting circles & the gym. It’s fast becoming a popular nutritional supplement and for very good reason. Resveratrol is a phytoalexin produced naturally by several plants when under attack by pathogens such as bacteria or fungi. I’ve also read that plants produce more resveratrol when grown in a stressful environment such as when grapes go through extreme cold temperatures, resveratrol is produced as a means of protection against the environment. It’s part of the plants survival mechanism.

So what happens when you grow your fruits & veggies with pesticides, fungicides and herbicides? You know, the things commercial farmers spray all over our food when it’s growing to protect them from bugs, pests, mites, fungus, bacteria and the like??? Well, let’s think this through for a few moments? If you artificially protect the plant, then the plant has no use for it’s own built-in natural protection. So, no or very little resveratrol.

What about growing foods in soils deplete of minerals? Yep, the fruits and veggies have no minerals to absorb therefore the fruit or vegetables they bare have minimal mineral content. The same could be said for vitamins, antioxidants and other phytochemicals yet to be discovered, just like resveratrol was recently discovered.

So, this is my back door argument for organic produce and against commercially grown produce. Organic, naturally raised fruits & veggies have the benefit of their own natural defenses working out with the environment, bacteria, fungi and harsh environmental conditions just like you and I workout in the gym. We get stronger as a response to the stress of the workout, the plants get stronger in their response to those environmental factors.

Let’s not forget where we get our vitamins, minerals, antioxidants (like resveratrol) and other phytochemicals, the foods we eat absorb them from the environment as they grow .

If you follow my logic, you’ll see the basic mechanism by which nature produces resveratrol is something common to all foods, not just the grapes used for wine. With that in mind, eat foods that used their own natural defenses to fight the elements and your body will benefit from their defense mechanisms as well. Otherwise, you’ll get nutritionally deplete foods that leave you exposed to the elements and stresses life has to offer. Wonder why you keep getting every cold that comes around?

If this makes sense to you them I’m sure you’ll start eating more organic fruits & veggies and literally consume the power of nature.

‘nuff said

DocT

Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

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