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A compound found in red wine may reduce prostate cancer risk according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The study showed that mice who were fed a compound called resveratrol, which is found in red wine, had an 87 percent reduction in their risk of developing aggressive prostate tumors. The mice who gained the highest cancer-protection effect consumed resveratrol in a powdered formula mixed with their food for seven months.

Resveratrol can also be found in grapes, raspberries, peanuts and blueberries, in addition to red wine. An earlier study found that mice fed resveratrol had a reduction in their risk of breast cancer.

Lead author Coral Lamartiniere says that, “A cancer prevention researcher lives for these days when they can make that kind of finding. I drink a glass a day every evening because I’m concerned about prostate cancer. It runs in my family.”

To ingest the same amount of resveratrol that the mice did, solely from red wine, an average person would have to drink a bottle a day.

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Original post by Patricia Mayville-Cox