Olive Leaf Extract Benefits

Benefits of Olive Leaf

Olive Leaf: The medicinal power of the olive tree has a storied history. It extends back to Biblical times and ancient Greece.

In Greek mythology, the goddess Athena created the olive tree. She gave it powers to cure illness, heal wounds, and provide nourishment.

The evergreen olive tree (Olea europaea) is native to the Mediterranean, but today it's grown throughout the world.

The benfits of olive leaf extract have not been recently discovered as marketers would have you believe.

In 1927 doctors used olive leaf extract to help get rid of malaria
in the US.

However, you might say that olive leaf extract has been re-discovered. Growing public interest in alternative medicine and in the Mediterranean diet has made organic olive leaf health products popular.

Olive Leaf Extract Benefits

What's the most active ingredient in olive leaf extract? Oleuropein. It's made up of 95 different compounds.

The disease-resistant characteristics of the olive tree come from oleuropein. It’s a powerful germ killer.

For thousands of years, the benfits of olive leaf extract have served as a cure-all in Turkey, Greece, and Italy.

Therapeutic benefits of olive leaf extract:

• strengthens your immune system, especially if it's under attack

• blocks the growth of viruses such as HIV, genital herpes, cold sores

• helps stave off flu, sore throats, sinusitis, bronchitis, and pneumonia

• lessens the effects of arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, psoriasis, yeast syndrome, fibromyalgia, athlete’s foot, and jock itch

In addition, olive leaf has shown potential for lowering high blood pressure.

Olive Leaf Side Effects - learn who should not take olive leaf.

Olive Leaf Extract Supplements?

As mentioned above, standardized extracts provide the strongest benefits of olive leaf. Olive leaf extract should be standardized to contain 20 percent oleuropein; note this when looking for a supplement.

Beware: Poor quality olive leaf extract lists the active ingredient as "calcium elenolate". Natural olive leaf does NOT contain "calcium elenolate (which is synthesized in a lab).

Excellent multi-nutrient supplements should contain olive leaf extract.

Yes, olive leaf only supplements are available. But there is something called "synergy" that can't be found in a single-nutrient supplement. Synergy is when one nutrient enhances the effectiveness of another.