We did a little math in CH104 this morning.
By our calculation and with some data retrieved from good old Wikipedia, we determined that it would require consuming about 1500 6-oz. glasses of wine per day in order to dose yourself with enough resveratrol to mimic the experiments that showed a benefit in mice.
Which is not to say that lower dosages wouldn't make any difference, or that mice are a perfect model for human nutrition. But it was a fun time, at least for me, and brought home the value of doing a few calculations the chemists' way.
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