Moore’s Law for Humans: The French say, “Add Red Wine”
SAN JOSE, CA - The weekend is soon to be upon us. A time to (hopefully) sit back, relax, catch up on errands and chores and maybe catch up on sleep. You might want to even unwind with an adult beverage. If you choose red wine as your adult beverage of choice, you may just have a little more energy to complete those errands and do those chores around the house. Red wine, you say? Yes, I say. According to The New York Times, “An ordinary laboratory mouse will run one kilometer on a treadmill before collapsing from exhaustion. But mice given resveratrol, a minor component of red wine and other foods, run twice as far. They also have energy-charged muscles and a reduced heart rate, just as trained athletes do, according to an article published online in Cell by Johan Auwerx and colleagues at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Illkirch, France.”
The article further states (Free registration required), “‘Resveratrol makes you look like a trained athlete without the training,’ Dr. Auwerx (pronounced OH-wer-ix) said in an interview. He and his colleagues said the same mechanism seemed likely to operate in humans, based on analysis in a group of Finnish subjects of the gene that is influenced by the drug.”
With regard to the human Moore’s law, if I drink a lot of red wine will I be able to double my human processing power every 18 months? I don’t know about you, but it has been a busy week and I’m looking forward to doing a bit of “training” and increasing my productivity with a little extra energy by having a glass (or two if I want to train extra hard) of red wine. Salut.
Posted by John Earnhardt at 06:13PM PST
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