Abstract

For anti-aging, Resveratrol was viewed as the ultimate molecule earlier, and now the world is looking at NAD+ (along with Resveratrol or its equivalent Pterostilbene). The author succeeded in extracting a good quality Resveratrol without unwanted proteins from sprouted Peanut kernels by applying pulsed heat and filed a patent. The author was then trying to produce trans-resveratrol from sprouted beans like black gram, green gram, kidney bean etc by using the same method of pulsed heating and was surprised to see that all these beans produced trans-resveratrol with an absorption peak in the range of 306 to 308 nm along with another strong peak around 264 nm. The 1cm long root of the sprout ejected the new molecule with abs peak at 264 nm along with Resveratrol under pulsed heat. (Bubbles were coming out of the root-hole of the bean-sprout when the heat pulse was turned off). The NAD+ and NR compounds have an absorption peak at 260 nm same as that of melted/denatured DNA and other internals of a cell, but it appears that the live sprouted-seeds produced a new signaling molecule before death of the cells inside the seeds. The author was thrilled to see that the same result was obtained for different pulse beans. It is not clear if this newly found unknown molecule will signal something like resveratrol (to alert the cell system about the stress) or like NAD+ (that will signal to produce extra energy in the cell to enable survival under stress) or both.