Health News
Health Benefits of Red Wine
March 13, 2006
Recent studies have revealed that red wine may help prevent and treat inflammatory periodontal disease. Research has also shown that red wine, especially grape seeds have anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor properties that can help prevent heart disease. The phenolic compounds in red wine have antioxidant properties.
Scientists from Universiti Laval (Quibec, Canada), conducted a study to investigate the role of polyphenols, including those found in red wine, in scavenging free radicals released by immune cells stimulated with components of bacteria causing periodontal diseases. The results indicated that red wine polyphenols significantly modulate several inflammatory components released by macrophages (a population of host immune cells) in response to bacterial stimuli.
These anti-oxidant properties of red wine polyphenols could be useful in the prevention and treatment of inflammatory periodontal diseases as well as other disorders involving free radicals.