He never said that amount of resveratrol was the optimal dose, just that it was the equivalent to what they gave the mice in the study. This has led to a discussion about whether drinking red wine would be enough to show benefits, or if you would need to buy resveratrol supplements to see the best results.

Many people are coming around to the side that higher amounts (anywhere from 100mg to 1000mg per day) are needed to get maximum benefits. It would be near impossible, and very unhealthy, to try to get this from red wine alone. Red wine can provide some really great benefits, but we have been drinking it for hundreds of years. If it was enough on its own we would have seen people getting the amazing results of some of these resveratrol studies already.