Bioavailability of resveratrol: Possibilities for enhancement

Konrad de Vries, Morné Strydom, Vanessa Steenkamp, Journal of Herbal Medicine, Available online 12 September 2017, ISSN 2210-8033, doi:10.1016/j.hermed.2017.09.002.

Resveratrol is a naturally occurring polyphenol that has been shown to elicit a variety of beneficial effects in vitro. Translating these gains to in vivo and clinical settings has proven to be a major challenge, because of its poor oral bioavailability. This caveat was confirmed after reviewing clinical trials conducted on this investigational product over the past two years. This review provides alternative methods of administration of resveratrol which may enhance its bioavailability. However, these methods: remain to be validated.
From current literature, it is clear that orally administered resveratrol has low bioavailability in vivo. A variety of methods that could overcome the inherent issues with resveratrol bioavailability have been proposed, however these need to be further validated in order to determine which are safe, effective and superior to traditional oral administration of resveratrol before clinical evaluation can take place.

 Bioavailability of resveratrol: Possibilities for enhancement