Who needs olives when you have olive leaves?

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While olive oil is well known for its flavor and health benefits, the leaf has been used medicinally in various times and places. Natural olive leaf and olive leaf extracts (OLE), are now marketed as anti-aging, immunostimulators, and even antibiotics. Clinical evidence has proven the blood pressure lowering effects of carefully extracted olive leaf extracts. Bio-assays support its antibacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-inflammatory effects at a laboratory level. A liquid extract made directly from fresh olive leaves recently gained international attention when it was shown to have an antioxidant capacity almost double green tea extract and 400% higher than vitamin C.

Olive leaf and extracts are used in the complementary and alternative medicine community

for the ability to act as a natural pathogens killer by inhibiting the replication process of many

pathogens.

Olive leaf is commonly used to fight colds and flu, yeast infections, and viral infections such

as the hard-to-treat Epstein-Barr disease, shingles and herpes. Olive leaf is also good for the

heart. Olive leaf has been shown to reduce low-density lipoproteins (LDL), or bad cholesterol.

Researchers have found that olive leaf lowers blood pressure and increases blood flow by

relaxing the arteries.

Olive leaf harbors antioxidant properties that help protect the body from the continuous activity

of free radicals. Free radicals are highly reactive chemical substances that, when oxidized, can

cause cellular damage if left unchecked. Some recent research on the olive leaf has shown its

antioxidants to be effective in treating some tumors and cancers such as liver, prostate, and

breast cancer but the research on this is preliminary.

Olive leaf can be taken as a liquid concentrate, dried leaf tea, powder, or capsule or by just

chewing freshly picked olive leaves.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_leaf