Our Philosopher’s Stone: Resveratrol As Explained by Dr. Bryan Donohue, Compiled by Hayley Sher
When was the last time you woke up and your first crackle of being radiated ‘Man I feel good’? If you’re eating well and slept eight hours last night, it may have been this morning. But for many, this feeling was so long that the premise is scarcely a reality.
“There’s a guy that has been plagued over his adult life with rheumatoid arthritis.”
I’m on the phone with Dr. Bryan Donohue, Chief of Interventional Cardiology at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Shadyside Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Lab Director, and Georgetown University School of Medicine graduate.
“He can’t even turn his head from side to side or shrug his shoulders.”
Donohue completed his residencies in both internal medicine and cardiology at the University of California at San Francisco. He speaks excitedly, from 26 years of experience to date, regarding a revolutionary, resveratrol-based product of perfection called Vindure900 he and a team of scientists have produced after years of intensive research.
“The doctors put him on all these meds, but all these crazy side effects practically deformed him….his skin was blue and he looked like a monster.”
In addition to working with traditional cardiology treatments, Dr. Donohue is an advocate and researcher in alternative medicine. “––I put him on Vindure in February 2009, and by 2010 he was asymptomatic.”
You may recognize the name resveratrol from its numerous mentions over the years in health articles and advertisements as the convenient cardiovascular benefit to sipping a glass of red wine. Dr. Donohue’s years of research and insights reveal resveratrol’s potential not just as an added perk, but an antidote for life.
Resveratrol is nothing new—its healing powers were first mentioned in the Indian Vedas, a part of Ayuervedic medicine, 1200 years before the birth of Jesus. Its poignant, life-changing sweeping potential for all, however, is a much more recent discovery.
In a special interview, Dr. Donohue shares his fascinating experience with Vindure900:
In 1935, a physician published a paper describing how during times of famine, animals don’t age. Despite its intrigue, this observation went unexamined until 1999, when a young Australian came to MIT in Boston and pulled the blankets on that dusty observation, asking “How can it be that calorie restriction prolongs life?”
Later moving to Harvard University, now Scientist and Professor, David Sinclair and his team of researchers found severe calorie restriction ignites a gene domain called Sirtuins. This being unrealistic for humans, Sinclair set out to find an alternate method to upregulate Sirtuins—and prolong life.
Sinclair’s team of Harvard Researchers tested hundreds and hundreds of products, including resveratrol. Resveratrol had been on the radar because of its affect on the French, who tend to consume rich and fatty foods but live longer on average than Americans.
The study included two groups of mice: one on a highly restricted caloric agenda, the other force fed peanut butter throughout the day and given resveratrol. The results were intriguing: resveratrol counteracted the detrimental effects of a high-fat diet, effectively matching the biological process induced by calorie restriction.
In 2006, the team published their findings in Nature, a leading science and medical journal. Since then, the world caught on, producing hundreds of supplements. But, not all resveratrol is created equal.
Unlike the majority of these products, our collaboration with Dr. Sinclair’s team fostered the creation of very powerful product called Vindure900. Resveratrol is not an isolated substance, but part of a compound of Phytoalexins (often referred to as polyphenols), antimicrobial substances synthesized by plants that accumulate rapidly at areas of incompatible pathogen infection. Sources of naturally-occurring resveratrol such as plants and red wine contain a host of polyphenols, which in themselves were found to increase the Sirtuin gene domain.
Because resveratrol traveled with its sister molecules in the lab, we were careful to ensure the mg/kg dosage closely follow Sinclair’s work. Vindure contains 400 mg of pure resveratrol, 400 mg of the other related polyphenols, and 100 mg of Curcin, a naturally occurring phytotoxin which increases the absorption of resveratrol. It’s a completely unique product and it’s very cost effective—about a dollar a day.
In July 2009 I began administering Vindure to over 300 of my patients afflicted with a range of illnesses from heart disease to dementia—everyone except those on blood thinning medication, actively going through chemotherapy, or breast feeding—and it has been incredibly interesting and tremendously exciting to observe. Users have ultimately expressed three incredible forces of change: they reencounter their own vivid wellbeing, begin to feel a sense of their own joyousness, and experience profoundly increased alacrity of thought.
With clinical trials coming out left and right, we’re testing this product from all different angles. One study we published looked primarily at college students. Initially we were looking at their athletic power, but adding on a cognitive study, we found there was a marked cognitive improvement in people that didn’t have a deficit. There is a measured increase of blood supply in the cerebral profusion, the actively circulating area stimulated by thought. Another study on dementia shows preservation of the Sirtuin group, whose degradation is associated with impaired memory. These are incredible findings.
The enhanced blood circulation ignited by Vindure for endurance and power, has also been powerfully beneficial for athletes, increasing energy, enhancing recovery time, and reducing cramps. A lot of human misery consequently results from inflammation, a series of biochemical events that causes pain. Vindure is a potent anti-inflammatory and increased blood circulation throughout the body revives physical and mental vivacity. Nothing like a caffeine Mountain Dew moment, the experience runs deep—literally from a cellular level. The cleansed sense of well-being lifts the veil on our own native intelligence. Straight away you’re healthier and feel better, allowing you to experience the potential life you may have imagined.
Vindure users have been taken by this increased energy and need for less sleep, by a crispness, a sharpness, a new sense of focus. The pace of activity has increased and being able to be on the ball is an enormous benefit for all of us. As you age, you begin a kind of slow degradation curve that continues until you hit the ground: gene activity levels fall and you also become less insulin sensitive. The wise gardener has to water the root and likewise, we have stumbled across a way to lengthen life, the pure joy of life. Resveratrol influences sensitivity even among the least insulin sensitive group, diabetics. It lessons the body’s strain to increase insulin production which is necessary to maintain the same degree of wellbeing.
It’s important to remember that the root of enlightenment for all supplements is making healthy choices. Unfortunately, people who have fallen into this or that—heavy, diabetic, hypertensive—trap of life encounter bigotry. They need to be protected and feel safe as they work themselves out—and they are. People are climbing out of the woodwork, fat broken down elderly people who are finally feeling their sails fill up with wind. It’s not just the sort of thing just yuppies can take; it’s really exciting for everybody.
Last year, a woman was brought into my hospital with an aorta calamity, she was a complete mess. Well-regulated c-reactive protein levels for the average person range from 0-10; hers peaked at 98.9. After surgery, I started her on Vindure and measured her progress: in March 2010, her c-reactive protein was 100; in May, 50; in June, 30. Vindure900’ potential to revolutionize the health industry—both holistic and modern—and improve the quality of life for millions is incredibly powerful. We’re just getting started on this.
Bryan Donohue, M.D., F.A.C.C. and his family have been using Vindure since June 2009. For more information or to purchase Vindure visit www.vinomis.com/ or call 877-4-Vinomis (877-484-6664). Feel free to contact the team at their corporate office, 509 Hegner Way, Sewickley, PA 15143 or email them at info@vinomis.com