Red, Red Wine...

The studies on aging have been slow to come but they seem to finally be looked at more seriously. This is a great advancement seeing as how our older population is going to sky rocket in the years to come. The research on STACs is particularly interesting because it is looking at extending the human lifespan. The research done on animals has been promising in showing that STACs may be able to extend human life as well. The only problem with this is that we don't really know what quality of life will be if people start living longer. STACs may extened the life but, we don't know to what extenet. It was said in the article that the animals who took the compounds lived realitively well into old age. This is good to know but, as with any animal research, we don't know the exact effects on humans. I think that we shouldn't jump the gun an tell people to start drinking red wine for this particular compound just yet. As it said in the article, it would take 1,000 glasses of red wine to equal the amount of the compound given to the rats! With more research in this area we can learn more about STACs and their benefits to humans.