If you’re interested in anti aging, then you would know about resveratrol.

It has been on the news, and is considered the latest anti aging supplement available.

But what are the resveratrol benefits?

Here’s my personal experience with resveratrol and what I’ve found to be the benefits. Why did I try resveratrol in the first place?

Well, I keep relatively healthy and feel pretty good. I do weight training 5 days a week to gain muscle and lose fat, eat good food, take multivitamins and enjoy doing so.

So I wanted to take resveratrol for its potential health benefits for ‘healthy aging’ and according to research studies had its various good effects.

You can see a list of the benefits of resveratrol from people’s experiences as well as from medical research here.

So I was doing it for these health effects and was not necessarily expecting any changes that I could feel.

In other words, according to preliminary studies, resveratrol could be good for me so that’s why I tried it out to see.

What did I find?Well, the changes I felt did surprise me.

I’ll detail the changes and the time frame for them:

1. I had more energy first thing in the morning.

Normally, I would wake up and only during a training session at the gym first thing in the morning, when I would feel more like 100% again.

But within the first week of resveratrol (I began without changing my diet or exercise routine at all to keep things consistent), I noticed that my mind and energy level was already up and running normally from the time I woke up.

2. My physical performance at the gym improved.

I noticed that when I worked out I could feel my muscles more and perform better.

I workout with a demanding routine and I can feel that my body seems to be ‘working better’.

The time frame for this was during the 2nd week.

3. My skin cleared up.

This occured after the first 3-4 days. Now this was the change that surprised me the most.

For the past 17 years I have had adult acne, and I would always had 5-6 acne lesions on my skin at any one time. The only time when it went away was when I took Roaccutane 7 years ago (I had 2 courses and hit the maximum total dose and had to stop). But my skin just cleared and I have not had any blemishes with my skin since. The 5-6 a day acne lesions left, but also my skin improved in other ways. The color in my cheeks returned, and my skin texture and appearance also became younger looking and just looked ‘healthier’.

I had people commenting that my skin just looks ‘good’.

I would have never expected this from resveratrol, but I was glad of this visible change that I would have ‘evidence’ that something was working in my body.

4. Losing fat became easier.

I have noticed that my fat around my face area, which I find I struggle to lose at times, became much easier to keep off.

I do work out hard, but often find that fat accumulates around my face and abdominal area easier thatn I would like, and to be especially sensitive to carbs in my diet or just by eating slightly more calories than I could handle.

But now I saw that I would exercise and keep fat levels down, instead of exercise and ’struggle to lose fat’.

And looking trimmer around the face and under the chin, does help even more in making me look younger.

This effect was after 2 weeks of starting the resveratrol supplements.

5. My mental performance was more consistent throughout the day.

Because of my consistent exercise I would normally have pretty good mental performance. And there were times when I would lag mentally in the afternoon or evening.

But after being on resveratrol for that first week, I found that I had more consistent mental clarity over any time of the day. If I wanted or needed to do work at the computer in the evening my mind and energy levels would be able to cope and I would suddenly realise that I was already doing it instead of trying to ‘refresh’ myself to do it.

I noticed a similar effect when I started multivitamins years ago, but this brings it up ‘another notch’ for me.

So these are my impressions with taking resveratrol.

Some changes I was totally surprised at, such as the skin and even better mental performance, as well as physical performance.

I did it mainly to get the benefits of the French paradox for heart health and potential anti aging benefits.

But the noticeable mental and physical changes I experienced were a pleasant and tangible benefit that I could feel.

So let me know what your experiences are with resveratrol.

Did you find any benefits?

Why did you try out the resveratrol in the first place?

Let us know.

And I’ll keep you updated as well with new posts.

Matt

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