The present review analyzes the antioxidant role of resveratrol in the animal health regarding oxidative stress. The term stress was coined by Hans Selye, who discovered the stimuli that could provoke this condition. The above mentioned author defined stress as “the action of nervous and emotional stimuli provoked by the environment on the nervous, endocrine, circulatory and digestive systems of an animal, producing measurable changes in the functional levels of these systems”. Stress can be classified as physical, psychological and physiological. Independently of the type of stress or stressor agent, the organism response is the same: there is an increase of sympathetic and adrenomedullary hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal activity. Oxidative stress is an imbalance between the production of reactivate oxygen species (ROS) and the antioxidant defense systems, enzymatic or not,