It is believed that resveratrol is an anti oxidant and also anti mutagen and anti-inflammatory. Let us look at the meaning of these terms before knowing their uses.
Anti mutagen means it inhibits the change of healthy cells into cancerous cells. There are two kinds of anti inflammatory supplements namely natural and synthetic. The former is more preferred as it has no side effects. The latter has side effects and cannot be taken without the consultation of a doctor.

Resveratrol is a natural anti-inflammatory and it is said that it prevents heart diseases and chronic inflammations. Still researchers are doing experiments to study other such benefits of resveratrol. Cancer to some extent is prevented by resveratrol. The latest study is to find out whether it is an anti aging compound and does it has a solution for Alzheimer’s disease.

A recent study tells that resveratrol is also good at decreasing the reproduction of flu virus in the cells. That is it is likely to be utilized for the treatment of influenza virus. However only conducting a test on rats has concluded this and the test on humans is yet to be done. Though there are lots of contradictions on this product, heavy dose of resveratrol has not created any adverse effect on human beings.