Shopping for a book about resveratrol? This looks like a good one.
The August 2006 issue of
Clinical Chemistry features a review by David M. Goldberg, of the Banting Institute at the University of Toronto, of the book
Resveratrol in Health and Disease, edited by B. Aggarwal and S. Shishodia.
The good parts:
It is the paradox of promise and uncertainty surrounding resveratrol that makes this volume so welcome and timely. The editors have explored every nook and cranny of their territory. In doing so, they have assembled an excellent team of contributors whose writing is clear, rarely dull, and often accompanied by exemplary illustrations. Several of the pioneers and leaders of the field are represented: John Pezzuto by a chapter on carcinogenesis that is a masterpiece spanning 150 pages, Barry Gehm by a chapter on the estrogenic effects of resveratrol that is shorter but highly informative, and Alberto Bertelli by the final chapter, describing resveratrol's pharmacokinetics and metabolism. Yup.
Pioneers and leaders of the field. That's my boy.
Goldberg concludes with this:
A decade from now, we are virtually certain to discover that only a modest proportion of its putative benefits are actually deliverable to suffering humanity; there is no way to tell from this book which of those benefits these are likely to be. However, as a superbly presented account of a volcano of knowledge in the midst of erupting, this book can be thoroughly recommended. The readers of this journal will not find its concepts and vocabulary unfamiliar, even if they will be encountering Polygonum cuspidatum, resveratrol’s most prolific plant source, for the first time.
So would
The Heterodyne Boys and the Erupting Volcano of Knowledge be a good title for a book?
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