Is Resveratrol a panacea for all diseases?

There has been a lot of buzz around resveratrol in recent days, stemming from a number of animal studies conducted on it and where it was seen - among other things - increasing the life of the animals that came to use it (with quite a significant number), while also showing some strength to cure cancer, diabetes, and a variety of other diseases currently considered terminal or life-altering.

Resveratrol itself, as it turns out, and contrary to what one might first imagine from the very sound of the name, is not a new synthetic formulation of a pharmaceutical powerhouse, but rather a naturally occurring chemical produced by some factories, when under attack by certain types of microorganisms (that is, mainly bacteria and fungi). Due to its huge popularity in recent days - and as a direct result of the above studies where resveratrol was shown to have some potentially revolutionary medical effects, some enterprising researchers have found ways to synthetically manufacture it in their laboratories, and this lab-made resveratrol, which forms a large part of the commercially available resveratrol. Worth mentioning is the fact that there is nothing wrong with the synthetically produced resveratrol, because chemically it turns out to be the same substance found naturally in plants as a result of microorganism action.

Now, the satirical question of whether 'resveratrol is a  Panacea Blog for all diseases is born of a controversy that has been brewing around this natural chemical since the studies that demonstrated its potentially revolutionary medical effect; where some medical commentators have been keen to point out that these were only 'potentially revolutionary' medical effects and as such have not yet been proven. This argument has been highlighted against the promises made by the suppliers of the synthetic resveratrol, which has been seen as an agenda for it (resveratrol) to appear as a panacea for all diseases.

So is resveratrol a panacea for all diseases?

While the answer would obviously be a quiet 'no', it would also be worth mentioning that in so far as it has the potential for life extension (which has always avoided people for years despite the best efforts to find it) , and as much as it promises to cure diseases like cancer and diabetes, resveratrol is clearly the closest we have to a "panacea for all diseases" today, and thus our labeling of it as such.

It is important to note that although the life extension properties were observed in researchers who were relatively far from us humans in the animal kingdom, the efficacy of fighting some forms of cancer, which resveratrol is said to have been observed in mice (which is relatively much closer on us humans), and whether the tendency is usually that "what works for the mice usually works for humans, too." The anti-diabetic features of resveratrol have also been observed in rats - which, like the mice, are relatively close to us humans in the animal kingdom - and where what works for rats typically works for humans as well; which means that the said "drug-like" benefits of resveratrol will actually be real.