Wine That Helps Kill Cancer

This topic, which one of my best friends thought I would enjoy, discusses using modified forms of red wine to help kill cancer cells. I enjoy a glass of wine here and there, but modifying to help kill cancer cells, I had to read into this one.

 

Sixty volunteers ingested a half gram of resveratrol (a modified form of red wine compound) a day, their bodies quickly created metabolized forms.The resveratrol sulfates were the most common metabolites found in the blood and intestinal tissue samples from these volunteers. It is thought that the proteins in the cell membranes help the resveratrol sulfates into the cells.  In an experiment with mice, researchers found that the sulfate metabolites in the cell will transform back into the resveratrol, which unleashes the chemical’s anticancer activity. The sulfate form was then tested in human cells. The reformed resveratrol killed cancerous cells but left other cells alone. This could be useful for treating cancer.

 

The use of resveratrol to fight cancer has only been suggested and has not gone into a big study. Would you think this would be a good study to look into for cancer research? Researchers never suggested what type of cancer cells it help kill, so would it be worth checking out? Or do you think this would be a lost cause using natural treatments or should we spend more time on synthetic treatments that may work faster?

 

Here is the article if you would like to look into this: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/altered-wine-chemical-helps-kill-cancer