If you have been looking into the Mediterranean diet, then you need to know about the benefits of olive leaf extract and olive leaf oil.
The Mediterranean diet, of course, tells us to make frequent use of olive oil.
However, olive leaf oil also contains a lot of health benefits.
In the Mediterranean diet, which is renowned for its qualities of
bestowing longevity and preventing heart disease and cancers, the oil of
pressed olives is used on just about a daily basis.
It might sound odd that cooking oil is highly touted as for health
benefits, but it must be remembered that this is not the vegetable oil
so commonly used in the cooking of modern civilization.
Cooking with, even frying with, olive oil yields wondrous taste as well
as health. Therefore, if the oil pressed out of olives can be healthy
for us, it only makes logical sense that there are health benefits of
olive leaf extract too.
For more info on olive oil benefits, types of olive oil and storing olive oil click here.
The Mediterranean diet is constructed around the facts that we desire,
and we can have, delicious and filling foods that also do our bodies
good. This diet includes land animal meat and rich desserts, but at its
core and predominating within it are seafood, certain fruits and herbs,
vegetables, red wine, and olive oil.
A person can also makes use of olive leaf oil and the health benefits of
olive leaf extract to further enhance their health and their joyful
lifestyle.
Clinical research has concluded that olive leaf oil contains significant amounts of Polyphenols, Oleuropein, Hydroxytyrosol, and Tyrosol.
Polyphenols
are chemicals that are highly beneficial to heart health. Furthermore,
the other highly concentrated chemical compounds are potent
antioxidants.
Antioxidants clean up the free radicals that get released into the blood simply through the process of digesting food, even healthy food.
Free radicals compromise the immune system, leaving us susceptible to disease and illness.
If these free radicals mount in our bodies, they cause premature aging.
It is now widely believed in the medical community that abundant free
radicals are shortening our lifespans so that we don't live as long as
we should, and are furthermore denying us the fact that we should be
filled with health and vitality right up until our final days.
If we don't nourish our hearts, and we fill ourselves with free
radicals, is it any wonder that we are not living to age 120 and we are
spending our last five to 10 years, sometimes longer, pumped full of
potent synthetic drugs or hooked up to machines, or needing assisted
living help?
It is recorded that olive leaf oil has been used for thousands of years as a healing medicinal substance.
In addition to protecting the heart and enhancing the immune system, the health benefits of olive leaf extract appear to also include the ability to rejuvenate and energize. Well, this only makes sense, once again.
If you increase the health of your heart and create a more powerful
immune system that is killing off a vast host of pathogens even without
your knowing it, then you should indeed have more energy and become
tired less easily. Olive leaf oil can indeed be used to practice the
precept that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
As a matter of fact, studies of olive leaf oil have shown that this substance can fend off the common
cold, flu, cold sores (herpes), ear and eye infections, throat and nose
infections, parasites, impetigo, pink eye, and a wide array of viral,
bacterial, and fungal infections.
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