Olive Leaf Extract: Superfood for Immune Building!

Olive Leaf Extract:
Superfood for Immune Building!
LIVER DISEASE • VIRAL INFECTIONS
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS • FUNGUS
Olive leaf extract (OLE) contains antioxidants that destroys free radicals responsible for cell
damage and impairing the immune system. OLE also attacks bad bacteria without damaging the
good ones, reducing the risk of side effects. It has also been used for viral diseases like colds, flu,
and cold sores. Olive leaf extract has been studied to treat eye, ear, nose, and throat infections,
pink eye, impetigo, and parasite infections.
Cardiovascular health... Studies show that olive leaf extract can reduce low-density lipoproteins (LDL), or bad cholesterol blamed for causing stroke and heart disease. It is an antiseptic
astringent herb that lowers fever, improves kidney function and has a calming effect.*
Viruses & bacteria... Olive leaf extract is beneficial for treating conditions caused by viruses,
retrovirus, bacteria, as well as protozoa. In animal studies, oleuropein has not only prevented the
development of high blood pressure but it has also reduced existing high blood pressure.
Although the possible reasons for these effects are not known, it is thought that oleuropein may
relax blood vessels, and it may also prevent deposits of plaque (cholesterol and other material
that builds up in arteries) that lead to arteriosclerosis or “hardening of the arteries”. (drugdigest,
2006)
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OLE interferes with the critical amino acid production of viruses and may inactivate the virus —
by virus budding or assembly. It can also penetrate the cells and stop viral replication. OLE is
effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, fungi and yeast strains and stops the production of
micro-toxins, which contribute to chronic fatigue. Other clinical use of olive leaf extract have
been for improving candida infections and resultant vaginal discharge, as well as for psoriasis,
PMS, weight problems, headaches and all other symptoms that coincide with yeast infections.
In vitro studies have found that olive leaf extract is effective against over 50 common disease
causing organisms including viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa such as herpes, influenza A,
Polio 1, 2, and 3; Salmonella typhimurium, Candida Krusei and Cox-sackie A 21.6) 7) 6) 6)
Australian university researchers have discovered that olive leaf extract has proven lethal to
human breast and prostate cancer cells in the laboratory, However, a great deal of additional
laboratory work will need to be performed to confirm these findings which would then need to
be the subject of extensive clinical trials, principal researcher Dr Wesley Stevenson said. Dr
Stevenson, manager of the Natural Products Pharmacology Unit at SCU, said that in a separate
aspect of the study, olive leaf extract was also found to produce inhibitory activity against some
key mediators in the inflammatory process. The new findings follow research in 2005, when the same olive leaf extract was
shown to have an antioxidant capacity 400 per cent higher than Vitamin C and almost double that of green tea or
grape seed extract. (Southern Cross University researchers find Australian olive leaf extract shows promise in laboratory
testing; July 2006; University of Queensland and Southern Cross University Australia; www.uq.edu.au/accmer)
*The leaves of this ancient plant contain secoiridoids — including oleuropein, as well as ligustroside and oleacein. It also
contains triterpenoids (oleanolic acid and uvaol), sterols, flavonoids (chrysoeriol, apigenin and luteolin glycosides) and
various other phenolic acids.
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Addditional resourcces:
Khayyal M, El-Ghazaly M, Abdalaha D, Nassar N, Okpanyi S, Kreuter M. Blood pressure lowering effect of an olive leaf extract (Olea eurpaea) in L-NAME induced hypertension in rats. ArzneimForschDrugRes.
2002;52(11):797-802.
The olive leaf extract exhibits antiviral activity against viral haemorrhagic septicaemia rhabdovirus (VHSV) by Vicente Micol; Nuria Caturla; Laura P?rez-Fons; Vicente M?s; Luis P?rez; Amparo Estepa (pp.
129-136).
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