According to a new study, red wine might be good for you, as it includes an ingredient, which has the ability to put off some blinding ailments.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis discovered that Resveratrol, found in red wine, grapes, blueberries, peanuts and other plants, can avoid and regulate angeogenesis, development of harmful blood vessels, in mouse retina.

Washington University Retina Specialist, Rajendra S. Apte, the Study’s Senior Investigator says, “A great deal of research has identified resveratrol as an anti-aging compound, and given our interest in age-related eye disease, we wanted to find out whether there was a link”.

He said that they have recognized a new path, which may turn out to be a fresh target for treatments.

Apte adds that they think that the pathway might be entailed both in age-connected eye ailment and in other problems where angiogenesis plays a negative part.

Another plus point is that patients can take Resveratrol orally and evade eye shots, but they might have to take tablets, since it is needed in high dosages in human beings, than mice.

Also, the compound is easily taken in by the body.

The results of the study are published in the July edition of the American Journal of Pathology.