Red wine may be the next best thing to the fabled elixir of youth, new research suggests.
A compound in the skin of red grapes has been found to curb the effects of ageing, even when taken in tiny doses.
Professor Tomas Prolla, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, senior author of the research published this week in the online journal PLoS ONE, said: “Resveratrol is active in much lower doses than previously thought and mimics a significant fraction of the profile of calorific restriction at the gene expression level.”