Olive Leaf Extract Benefits
Olive leaf extract benefits are its natural healing properties, it is very beneficial for your body and a great supplement to take for anti aging.
The benefits of olive leaf extract will do wonders in helping protect you from free radical damage, and this is very important if you want to keep looking younger!
It is well known for its powerful antioxidant properties, and is fast becoming very popular for the health conscious.
Apart from its anti aging properties, it is also very good in helping to strengthen a weakened immune system.
This is definitely a great way to strengthen your immune system, and many people are known to take it during the winter months to help ward of colds and flu. I stumbled upon olive leaf extract when I caught a cold and along with it a persistent cough which I could not get rid of.
I always keep some in the house for my children; you can buy it in child strength in a liquid form.
If you don’t like the taste of olive leaf extract you can always purchase it in capsules.
There is a very powerful active ingredient inside olive leaf extract; it is a phytochemical (a chemical compound found in plants) called oleuropein.
Phytochemical is a non-nutritive plant chemical that has protective or disease preventive properties.
This particular phytochemical oleuropein has been proven to help many people with health problems, such as candida.
Candida is a yeast infection and you can be susceptible to this if your system is weak. Many women will find they suffer from thrush, as I did for many years, and toenail and fingernail fungus will also respond well to oleuropein in the olive leaf extract.
Olive Leaf Extract Benefits
- lower blood pressure
- give you better heart health
- increase your energy levels
- help control blood sugar levels
- help sufferers from chronic fatigue syndrome
- detoxify the body
- lower bad cholesterol
- relieve cold sores (herpes)
- clear ear,eye, throat and nose infections
There have been no specific clinical trials of olive leaf extract, nevertheless, even though it has not been approved as a treatment for a particular health ailment, it is widely used and recommended by many Naturopaths.
Some may experience side effects when first taking olive leaf extract, common reactions can be headaches, pimples, rashes, muscle and joint aches and diarrhea. These side effects will pass and are actually a good sign, it means the extract is working.
Try drinking a couple of glasses of water before taking the olive leaf extract, and if symptoms persist, give it a few days break while your body releases toxins and start again.
The health benefits of olive leaf extract are great for young and old.
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April 26th, 2010 at
Great, I never knew this, thanks.
May 19th, 2010 at
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it
June 27th, 2010 at
Olive Leaf Extract is a fabulous supplement that is slowly gaining more attention. Although there may not yet be any completed clinical trials, there is a growing amount of scientific research into it.
The oleuropein found in it is something that has attracted study, but there are also quite a few (over 20) other powerful antioxidants in olive leaf.
There is more information and a list of some of the research studies on this site: http://www.fresholiveleaf.com