Can Resveratrol Cure Erectile Dysfunction? [Maybe]

First off, what us resveratrol?

Resveratrol is a type of natural phenol that you find in for instance the skin of grapes, blueberries, raspberries, mulberries, olive oil and peanuts.

If you have followed what’s been going in anti-aging research over the last few years, you have probably heard of resveratrol, as it one of those molecules that is claimed to have positive effects for increasing our life expectancy.

Now researchers have also investigated whether this substance can help improve or cure erectile dysfunction.

Researchers in China investigated whether resveratrol could have an effect on rats. Rats with erectile dysfunction.

68 20-month-old rats (this is old age for a rat) were divided into four groups: A control group, a resveratrol group, a group that was given the SIRT1 inhibitor nicotinamide (NAM), and a group that was given a combination of resveratrol and tadalafil, a known treatment for erectile dysfunction. The study lasted for 8 weeks.