Recently, we stressed the power of resveratrol to prevent Alzheimer’s, and this time the famous polyphenol present in the skin of grapes, wine, cranberries and peanuts are known for helping to accelerate the body is metabolism.
Traditionally, research on the resveratrol took as its starting point the body of rats and mice. Medical studies have been made in general about these animals, whose physiology is obviously different from humans. However, on this occasion he has conducted research on primates, so their results can be applied more directly to us humans.
Fabienne Aujard the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France, has worked with a group of researchers studying the feeding behavior of a group of mouse lemur, a primate species found in Madagascar. Some of these rodents fed resveratrol to check the effect on their weight.
The study, published in the journal BMC Physiology, lemurs showed that mice whose diet included resveratrol is able to reduce their weight considerably compared to others.
According to investigators, this happened because the resveratrol generates a feeling of fullness, which reduces food intake, on a par with that increase your metabolism, and the animals managed to burn calories while resting and not exercising.
The fact that this happens with the mouse lemur on the findings of this study to us, humans, and this opens hope to work with extracts of resveratrol in people wishing to lose weight.