Grace’s Blog

On May 4^th, 2010, GlaxoSmithKline announced they were suspending a clinical trial of their resveratrol drug because of safety concerns.

Some reports went so far as to say people should be cautious about taking resveratrol supplements until the safety issues had been resolved.

This needs to be clarified.

The “resveratrol” drug referred to is not resveratrol itself!

Several years ago, Harvard scientists started screening over 500,000 chemicals to find which would be most effective at turning on anti-aging genes.

They were looking for something they could patent and sell to a drug company for big bucks.

What they found was resveratrol, a nutrient found naturally in red wine.  It was the most effective compound out of those 500,000 they screened at turning on the anti-aging genes.

It was great news for people using resveratrol supplements, but it was bad news for the scientists, because they couldn’t patent it and, therefore, couldn’t sell it to a drug company.

But all was not lost. There is a time-tested process for dealing with this problem.

It is to make a chemically modified derivative of the natural compound and, if it works, patent the chemical derivative and sell it to a drug company.

That’s what the scientists at Harvard did. They made a chemical derivative of resveratrol called SRT501.

This chemical showed it also turned on the anti-aging genes, patented it and sold it to Sirtris Pharmaceuticals for $500 million.

Then Sirtris turned around and sold it to GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million

The process of making a chemical derivative is frequently used.  Many successful drugs have been obtained this way, but the process is also fraught with perils.

Chemically modified derivatives are often not metabolized in the same way as the original and are often toxic in unexpected ways.

It is not surprising SRT501 displayed unexpected toxicity which caused
GlaxoSmithKline to halt clinical trials of the drug.

SRT501 is not resveratrol and the toxicities of this drug have nothing to do with resveratrol.

Resveratrol is a completely natural nutrient found in grapes, red wine and other foods. SRT501 is a man-made chemical derivative of resveratrol.

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I received a really good email newsletter this morning and I was tempted to send it out to my contacts.  

It had all the makings of scandal and an element of truth.

The subject was about a well known fast food chain and problems it was having. 

I quickly copied and pasted it to get it ready to email.

Then I stopped.  At the bottom of the email was a web site which was the source for the story. I decided to check it out.

It turned out the story was a farce.  It was an April Fool’s joke and now the chain is trying to do damage control.

It was a lesson to me to check sources and choose not to re-send.

That goes for those wonderful emails that say “send this to everyone in your address book,” or “send this to 10 people right now and all your wishes will be granted.”

I could go on, but the point is taken.

Could those emails have a tracking device on them and each time they are forwarded to friends and family, it only verifies it is a legitimate email address and Spammers then have good addresses to spam?

It doesn’t matter how cute those bunnies, kittens, puppies and other “cute” pictures are.  Do friends and family really want to see them for the umpteenth time?

I’ve received an email numerous times that shows a really horrific accident which could have been fatal but the occupants of the vehicle walked away. 

It was supposed to be on Hwy. 100 near where I live.  There is no Hwy. 100 near where I live.  It had to be a “doctored” picture.

My motto now is ….check sources, do not forward emails no matter how good they are.  It could save me some time and misery.

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None of us know what the future holds. No matter how secure we think we are financially, it can all disappear.

When a friend “bugged” the heck out of me to try a sample of Shaklee’s Basic H, I resisted for several months.  Finally I tried it and liked it.

As I learned about Shaklee, good health and “green” products, I shared with friends and family and soon I had “a little stream” of extra income coming in.

By default, I had a Plan B.  I never expected to ever really need it.  It was for fun times.

Then my husband  had two back surgeries within 9 months and was told he could no longer work in his chosen field. We scrambled.  Thankfully that “little stream of income” was there to pay the house payment and the utilities.

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Just think about it…

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