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Is the red wine compound resveratrol a miracle drug for infertility and ageing?

  • Written by Lindsay Wu, Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Australia
imageResveratrol is found at only trace levels in red wine.Cyril Hanquez/Flickr, CC BY

“A glass of red wine a day could keep polycystic ovaries at bay,” said a news headline this week. This and similar reports were based on research from a team in Poland and California that showed high daily doses – 1,500 mg – of a natural...

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