Gruber J, Tang SY, and Halliwell B came out with a study in 2007 showing that Resveratrol, the substance in red wine that is thought to be the major cause of the “French Paradox”, excerts it’s life extending effects at a cost to early life reproductive capacity in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. This didn’t affect didn’t exert itself at later stages of life.
Don’t think this is necessarily bad. If it’s also true in humans, then resveratrol may help extend life, and reduce teenage pregnancy!
Calorie restriction works in much the same way, but is hard to implement with athletes who need large amounts of food just to survive.
