Written by: Marisol Teijeiro N.D. (inactive)
Medically reviewed by: Victoria Williams R.H.N.

Est. reading time: 10 minutes.

Resveratrol is a plant compound that acts as a powerful antioxidant in our bodies. It’s not only found in grapes and red wine, but also in smaller amounts in blueberries, tomatoes, peanuts, dark chocolate, and apples.

Resveratrol Concentration in Grapes

The grape is an interesting fruit because the pinot noir grape is the ‘weakest’ grape that grows well in Oregon, Italy, and France (legendary here!) yet it has the highest antioxidant content, specifically resveratrol¹. Pinot noir is the healthiest of red wines.

Pinot Noir

The weaker the grape, the stronger the antioxidant. In red wine, it’s pinot noir grapes. In terms of juice, it would be the Concord grape. They actually have one of the highest nutritional profiles but they are incredibly sweet (which means high in sugar).

It’s these minute doses of bacteria that are on our food, all the time, that we are ingesting every day. This is one of the reasons we don’t want to be eating leftovers all of the time because leftovers have a lot of bacteria that is latent from manufacturing and transporting of different foods.

Concord Grape Diet

Have you ever heard of the old grape diet? Where you basically eat nothing but grapes for three days?

There actually might be something to this. When reading Genesis; the first chapter of the Bible, and in the biblical days, to cleanse they would basically not consume anything for the first 3 days. So you could do a grape juice fast for the first 3 days, along with water and green tea, to clean up the system and also take in a ton of powerful antioxidants.

What Does Resveratrol Do?

Resveratrol can help women lose weight and maintain healthy estrogen levels^2 3. Estrogen dominance is a problem that makes you gain weight, and when you gain weight you produce more estrogen.

So it is a vicious cycle of gaining weight and having high estrogen, which causes symptoms like breast tenderness, moodiness, depression, anxiety, you’re basically all over the map. It is not a fun condition to be in and resveratrol can help with that.

Resveratrol in the Gut

So what does it do for the gut?

Flavonoids are very important in keeping the gut mucosal membrane lining healthy⁴. If you can’t keep the gut mucosal membrane lining healthy, strong and integral, then the problem arises that you have a weak barrier. Your gut is a barrier to the outside food that is coming into the body. It has to be integral.

Maintaining a Healthy Gut Lining

Stool Transit Time

Stool transit time can actually dictate the number of allergies you have. The less that you go, the more allergies you may have⁵. Isn’t that incredible? Stool transit time can also dictate the form of stool oro to anal (oroanal transit time)⁶. So there are all these ways that knowing your transit time can tell you different things about your body.

You Are What You Absorb

Now, resveratrol helps with keeping the gut lining integral. It’s actually imperative to it. In supplement formulas, I add in resveratrol all the time and I make sure people are getting it from their diet as well.

What’s even more important is that people are absorbing and digesting things well. We need to optimize the absorption capacity in our guts in order to really reap the health benefits of resveratrol in our food, drink, and supplements.

Food Hygiene

To Reset Your Gut You Have 2 Options

1. You can reset it by a little wee bit at a time which takes a long time, OR;
2. You go all in! Change your practice step by step by step for the fast win.

The second option makes more sense to me! Agreed?

So, in order to reset the environment, we need to clear what is coming in, allowing the body to rebalance in its own natural way and allow it the space to do what it needs to do – that is digest, absorb and eliminate. My favorite tool to do this is the Queen of the Thrones® Castor Oil Pack for Liver.

How Do Castor Oil Packs Help You Reset Your Gut?

1. Relaxation.

Parasympathetic tone, practicing the pause. How do we get more of the relaxed state as opposed to the stressed state? Castor Oil Packs are like the escape button for your nervous system, which is more related to the pack rather than the actual oil. That’s because when the pack sits on the skin it stimulates receptors in the skin of the nervous system.

Whenever you place an object in an area, tactile soft-touch actually is treating that area⁷. This soft, pleasurable touch also stimulates hormones, like oxytocin – the love and bonding hormone, as well as dopamine⁸ – the pleasure hormone of the brain. No side effects from Castor Oil Packs, only benefits!

2. Reduce Inflammation & Alkalinity.

Wherever there is inflammation there is acidity, so reducing inflammation increases alkalinity. The enzymes of our bodies cannot work without alkalinity. Our enzymes need proper pH to function well, so Castor Oil Packs help to create this environment and has been shown to be an excellent anti-inflammatory.

Moreover, Castor Oil has been shown to be as effective as capsaicin without the irritating effect⁹.

3. Maintain Glutathione Levels & Support Detox Pathways.

There are not many ways to get glutathione, our super important detoxifying compound. You can take glutathione supplements, but they haven’t been shown to be super effective. You can also get it from whey protein, but this is an issue for a lot of people with allergies and sensitivities. A third way to get it is from rooibos tea, green tea or red raspberry leaf tea to improve glutathione in the gut.

Supplementation with N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) and magnesium can help with glutathione levels, however, most of us are already very deficient in magnesium so the body will first use the magnesium for what it needs, before converting it to glutathione. Sometimes it can be dose-limiting too, because of the potential laxative effect of magnesium.

IV and injection is another way of getting glutathione, but this requires going to a clinic every time. Castor Oil Pack for Liver helps with the recycling of glutathione. There was a study done on rat lenses where they put the lenses in a dish of glutathione solution, and one in a dish of Castor Oil. The glutathione levels were actually maintained BETTER in the Castor Oil solution¹⁰.

4. Support the Regulation of Bowels

Transit time is very important. Without a normal transit time, you have problems with your microbiome, allergies, and toxins recirculating in the body. Normal for men is 1.7 days and for women it is higher at 2.3 days¹¹.

Women have more hormones that play a role in their transit time too. If progesterone levels are low, it can contribute to a slower transit time. Castor Oil Packs help to regulate the movement of your bowels supporting your digestion transit times.

5. Break down Biofilm.

So it’s super important to address biofilm. There aren’t many natural substances that have the ability to break it down. Castor Oil is one of these substances and it’s so amazing because it stimulates nitric oxide passageways!

Nitric oxide is a gasotransmitter, which is basically a gaseous messenger molecule involved in signaling to open up blood vessels and also helps reduce inflammation. They’re calling it one of the newest anti-aging molecules. Red wine, grapes, and beets are all food sources of nitric oxide.

You go to the bathroom more often when you have higher levels of progesterone. Ladies, right before your period do you find that you are going to the bathroom more frequently? This is because your progesterone levels spike just before menstruation, causing your transit time to speed up.

Castor Oil Packs are such a simple treatment that work on these 5 foundational functions – relaxation, inflammation, antioxidant status, the bowels, and the microbiome. This supports everything absorbing, digesting, working well, and eliminating where it needs to. Get your own super easy, 2-step Queen of the Thrones® Castor Oil Pack for Liver.

Gut Lining and Hormones

Resveratrol basically acts like an antioxidant that helps heal the gut lining, and at the same time balances out hormones. Our gut lining is very dependant on our hormones, and resveratrol helps in the detoxification of estrogen.When you have better-balanced levels of estrogen, you will have sufficient levels of progesterone that help you go to the bathroom well and maintain a regular transit time.

Dietary Intake of Resveratrol

1. Royal Red

How to Flash Pasteurize Red Wine:

You will need:

• 1 oz red wine
• 4 oz boiling water
• Throw in 5 ice cubes

And there you have it, a nice wine cider basically that I like call it the Royal Red! Another option is to add carbonated water and ice for a spritzer type drink.

Grape juice is another option for dietary intake of resveratrol. As mentioned before, Concord grapes have the highest antioxidant content. With grape juice though, water it down because it’s very sweet, therefore very high in sugar!

2. Grapes

Good ‘ole grapes are also a great way to get resveratrol into your system. But remember we talked about the fungus that they produce to protect themselves? We need to wash it off with a handy dandy acid-cleansing wash.

How to make an Acid-Cleansing Wash

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