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ME/CFS since 1995; activity level 6?
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I think in my case (for intestinal ischemia) I need to be inhibiting arachidonic acid metabolism. When all else fails to ease my gut pain, I find red wine, about half a small glass, quickly quells the discomfort which I believe is being caused by an inflammatory source. Unlike other alcohol sources, polyphenols in red wine are known to strongly inhibit arachidonic acid metabolism. http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16487260
I would not attach any significance to a non-human study. They are on average equally likely to be relevant or irrelevant to humans.
I found these human studies on red wine and blood pressure from a Highwire search:
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/95/6/1323.full
http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/45/5/874.full
http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/14/1683 (a review which includes human and animal info, plus a good reference list with crosslinks)
http://circres.ahajournals.org/content/111/8/1065.full