Protect Yourself..... Olive Leaf Extract

Widespread Benefits of Olive Leaf

The Mediterranean diet offers a host of benefits that prolong life and improve health.
Olive oil, a major component of the Mediterranean diet, contains a unique compound called oleuropein that provides its characteristic biting, astringent taste.
Oleuropein is responsible for most of olive oil’s antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and disease-fighting characteristics.
Olive leaves contain high amounts of oleuropein, making their extracts a valuable source of this nutrient without the need to consume large amounts of olive oil.
Olive leaf extracts show tremendous promise in preventing or mitigating conditions as diverse as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s, and arthritis.

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Distinctive properties
According to findings in laboratory studies, olive leaf extract is effective in fighting microorganisms like bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa among others that cause numerous diseases. The olive leaf extract has strong eradicating tendencies which include:

The capability to hinder the production of amino acids necessary for viruses to thrive
The ability to help in managing infectivity due to viruses by causing this microorganism to become dormant or by impeding the successful reproduction, leaving of the cell without lysis, or assembly of the virus within host cells at the cell membrane
The capacity to directly break through infected cells and eradicate viral reproduction
Preventing phagocytosis or ingestion of harmful cells and foreign substances in the body


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Very true. I have Olive Leaf Extract and Oil of Oregano which I use for their anti-bacterial properties.

Protect yourself...

From NPR.. latest "stomach bug" infecting the USA..

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A stomach bug has sickened at least 321 people across 14 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday. The source of the outbreak is still unknown, though the parasite that's causing the outbreak, , is usually found in food.

About 90 percent of the cases have been reported in Iowa, Texas and Nebraska. But the bug has also cropped up in the Southeast and New England.

Health officials say they still don't know how cyclospora is making it into people's meals.

Most of us aren't familiar with cyclospora, and that's a good thing. The parasite, which likes to hang out on fresh fruits and vegetables, causes a rather nasty bout of diarrhea that can last weeks.

"It's a tenacious critter," Dr. William Schaffner from Vanderbilt University CBS News Thursday. "It can produce a prolonged, watery, very uncomfortable diarrhea."

And the bug doesn't stop there. "What's unique to this parasite is that it causes anorexia," or lack of appetite, says , from the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety. "People lose a lot of weight, very fast."

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I wonder if anyone is checking some the usual suspects of animal waste runoffs from these large corporate meat operation.
In the past, there were connections however the mainstream media doesn't bring it up.
I would assume they are afraid that the meat and/or dairy lobbys would raise hell over this.
So let's blame something else like foods coming in from foreign lands that aren't inspected.
Seems the the TSA and Homeland Security doesn't hesitate to give travelers the third degree, but little attention towards food imports, if that's the case.

The 1993 cryptosporidium outbreak comes to mind in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That was linked in that case to dairy waste runoff into Lake Michigan.

Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite (a tiny organism) that causes an infection called cryptosporidiosis affecting people and cattle.

Protect yourself... Olive Leaf Extract

Working against bacteria and viruses
Humans need a strong and healthy immune system to defend the body from the possible damaging effects of bacteria and viruses. Extract from fresh olive leaves can be extremely potent in protecting the body from microbes. It is the pungent components found in the leaves or polyphenols that were found to be especially effective in preventing damage caused by bacteria. A drug company study found olive leaf extracts to be useful in the treatment of parasitic protozoan, viral, and bacterial infections.

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so can I take some leaves off of an olive tree crush them and make my own extract ?

I do not know the exact way to go about the extraction process for olive leaves, but I'm sure that with some research you could find out.

since you're the one advocating it
it's your job

otherwise you're just another useless consumer

Pick a few leaves and start chewing.

What? :Lucy2:


Great post WildFlower - there is so much we can do to protect ourselves 'naturally' - I'll be adding this to my regimen this week.

Thank you!

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