Some Bacchus’s nectar against the ictus damages

The red wine could help patients in the post-stroke rehabilitation. According to a recent research, this should be because of Resveratrol. This molecule is also present in raspberries, blueberries, cranberries and peanuts

by R. T.

According to the researchers of the John Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA, in a study published on Experimental Neurology, red wine is a powerful helper against the damages provoked by ictuses. Indeed, according to this study, wine could help to reduce of the 40% the long term damages to the brain that follow an ictus.

The research was done on mice on which the experimenters induced an ischemic ictus. The population of mice that was treated with resveratrol before the ictus reported on the long term smaller brain damages in respect to the control population.

According to the research staff, resveratrol can increase the concentration of an enzyme called “Heme oxygenase” that preserves the brain cells by such damages. As a matter of fact, in mice lacking this enzyme, the resveratrol didn’t show any positive effect.

The resveratrol seems to enhance to brain defense system and for this reason it exploits also a preventive effect against the ictus damages.

The resveratrol is present in wine, in the skins and seeds of the red grapes, in raspberries, blueberries, cranberries and peanuts.