26/08/2026
“A glass of red wine is good for your heart.”
You have heard it a hundred times. And there is a grain of truth in it, which is exactly why the myth survives. Red wine does contain resveratrol, a genuine antioxidant, made in the skin of the grape and carried into the wine during fermentation.
The problem is the quantity.
Average red wine holds under 2 milligrams of resveratrol per litre. To reach the dose used in even the lowest clinical trials, you would need to drink roughly twenty bottles a day. Normal wine drinking delivers around 0.2 milligrams daily, which is five thousand times less than the therapeutic dose used in research.
Meanwhile, what is definitely in that glass is alcohol, classified a Group 1 carcinogen since 1988, the same category as to***co and asbestos.
Now here is the more interesting fact, and it applies to every antioxidant you swallow, not just wine.
Vitamin C has an elimination half life of about ten hours. It enters your bloodstream, peaks, and clears. That is precisely why it is sold as a daily tablet. Tomorrow you start again from zero.
But there is a way to build antioxidants that stay in your body for days and weeks, without swallowing anything at all.
No pill. No supplement. No bottle.
Do you know what it is?
Comment below if you know the answer.
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Dr Muralidar Babi, MBBS, MD (CMC Vellore)
Founder, Cardiac Rehab and Telangana Runners
