Olive Leaf Extract

[SquishyDave]

I was wondering if anyone had done any research into Olive Leaf (Olea europaea). I was wanting to find out if this stuff does indeed have Antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal properties, but I find slogging through research results the hardest part of being a skeptic, I was wondering if anyone had already looked into this, and could point me in the right direction.

If not I will have to hit the internet, but here's hoping.

[Virgil]

it would not be unreasonable for a plant etracxt to have these properties.

I haven't done the work, but it is plausabe.


V

[SquishyDave]

Of course, in a test tube, but you are supposed to eat this stuff, it's good for what ails you. It can help with, not cure, but help with the following, but is not limited to the following:
AIDS
anthrax
chicken pox
cholera
cold sore
diptheria ebola sudan virus
hepatitis A,B,C
lyme disease
measles
athletes foot
common cold
e. coli
shingles
polio
etc.

[Virgil]

If you eat it I doubt the chemicals and enzymes would survive the stomach. I was thinking of a topical treatment.



V

[Hand Bent Spoon]

All those idiots dying of AIDS. All they had to do was eat of couple of olive leaves and survive just fine. Or not. ;)

[aries]

Hallo :)

A quick googling turned this up:

http://www.google.dk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=olive+leaf+extract

And also this:

http://www.nutriteam.com/oliveleaf.htm

Apparently it maybe beneficial because of its antioxidant
effects (to the user).

Whether this this is true (or false) I don't know.

Also, I don't know of any (independent) study (=doubleblind etc.)which demonstrated (or proved) by evidence based proof that by taking (eating, digesting or otherwise using this product)

olive oil extract you apparently can reduce pains and ailments for the mentioned diseased ranging from aids to the common cold.

It would be interesting, though, to see (or to make) such a study.

Yet, I do not currently know of such study.

aries

[SquishyDave]

I braved the horrors of pub med, searching through pages of dry technical stuff, only to find the anti-bacterial properites of this stuff have only been tested in vitro so I looked up the word in vitro and found out it means in the test tube, there are no studies for the in vivo abilities of it. in vivo means in the body.

I really don't give a flying rats arse if it's an antioxidant, we have about 600 other types of food that have this magical property, if antioxidant is all this thing can do it seems a waste of money. :p :)

I can't find anything saying it is anti viral on pub med, or anti fungal when ingested. Oh well, so someone sat down with this stuff and just started making things up it seems, then sold it without testing even one of the claims.

Oh and it doesn't cure AIDS, even they are not so brazen as to claim this, but it will help. Even though AIDS is a disease which fluctuates anyway so any natural upswing in condition can be attributed to this stuff, while it remains blameless on any downswing. :rolleyes: Oh well :)

[The Don]

If you're being a cynic you could point to the fact that the stuff can be sold to the public without undergoing rigorous clinical trials into its effectiveness and safety as an indication that it does basically bu99er all. After all, they wouldn't release a powerful anti-retroviral onto the market without a few years clinical trials under their belts.

[SquishyDave]

Originally posted by The Don
If you're being a cynic you could point to the fact that the stuff can be sold to the public without undergoing rigorous clinical trials into its effectiveness and safety as an indication that it does basically bu99er all. After all, they wouldn't release a powerful anti-retroviral onto the market without a few years clinical trials under their belts. Good point and well made, now, where is the cynic registration office?

[Vitnir]

Its over here. Don't try to jump the queue.