Grape skins are a diabetics best friend- Resveratrol fights the fight

Research carried out by scientists at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England has found that resveratrol, a compound present naturally in grape skin, can protect against the cellular damage to blood vessels caused by high production of glucose in diabetes, according to a recently published paper in the science journal “Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism.”

Ok, here is how it happens…the elevated levels of glucose that circulate in the blood of patients with diabetes causes vascular complications by damaging mitochondria. When these power plants within cells are damaged they can leak electrons and make highly damaging ‘free radicals’. Enter complications nephropathy, heart disease and retinopathy.

Resveratrol stops the damage by helping cells make protective enzymes to prevent the leakage of electrons and the production of toxic ‘free radicals’. Resveratrol is naturally in grape skins, seeds, peanuts and red wine.

via Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry