Olive Leaf Capsules -
120 Caps (750 mg. ea.)
Olive Leaf Extract (tincture) -
4 fl. oz. -- [Availability]

ew compounds in the pharmacy of Mother Nature have attracted as much interest as oleuropein - a constituent of leaves from the olive tree (olea europaea). Revered by ancient civilizations, the olive tree provided food (its fruit and extracted oil), medicine (leaves), fuel and building material (bark and corpus).
Although there are more than 95 different, known medicinal compounds in olive leaves, most recently interest has centered on oleuropein. According to medical journalist and researcher, Dr. Morton Walker, interest in this substance has grown in recent years.
Morton's primary monogram on the subject, Olive Leaf Extract (click on the images at right to see enlargements of the covers) deals with the known components of olive leaf. [We have prepared a very detailed summary of Morton's work (in DOC format) - 14 pages, 318k in size. Nonetheless, some of you may wish to purchase the book.]

Caution: You may want to consider taking olive leaf at a reduced dosage and building up to the label's "baseline dosage" of two capsules, twice daily.
Additionally, you should not take Olive Leaf with the amino acids, cysteine, glycine, histadine, or lysine as it may interfere with olive leaf's actions, and you should never take Olive Leaf with pharmaceutical-grade antibiotics as it may interfere with those drug(s) which your doctor has prescribed.
Olive Leaf itself is reported to affect certain helpful probiotics, including the soil-bacterium, bacillus subtilis. We recommend that you do not take Olive Leaf concurrently with any probiotic formula, and after concluding your use of Olive Leaf, follow up with Microflora Restore to replenish the intestinal tract with helpful bacteria.
Contraindication: We recommend not taking Olive Leaf if you are using warfarin (Coumadin�), since Olive Leaf mutes coagulation and has a relaxing effect on blood vessels.

Olive Leaf vs. Olive Leaf Extract

he bulk of the literature extolling the virtues of olive leaf refer to the product as "Olive Leaf Extract." This helps sell books --- after all, most of the supplement manufacturers can charge more money with a value-added extract than they can by repackaging the base material. Extracts are superior to their raw herbal sources in many cases -- and provably so.
But not so with Olive Leaf.
And to prove our point, we prepared both the Olive Leaf powder in capsule form and Olive Leaf Extract, made using traditional extraction methods with 190 proof grain alcohol. Then we provide chemical analysis to provide a basis for comparison (see below).
The arguments involving just how much standardized, medicinal compounds are in Olive Leaf products may seem petty on the surface, but, in fact, they strike at the heart of the value of the product. You're not paying for lignins, cellulose, or ash. You're paying for Olive Leaf's active ingredients. Although there are over 95 different compounds in Olive Leaf, the current benchmark for purity is the concentration of "oleuropein," currently believed to be the most active phytopharmacological compound in the leaf.

HPLC analysis shows our Olive Leaf powder at 3.04% in one recent test, which translates into 22.77 mg. of oleuropein per 750 mg. capsule --- (see graph).
The same analysis shows our concentrated tincture at 0.55 mg. of oleuropein per milliliter (ml.) of 'starting material' --- (see graph). That translates into 24.40 mg. of oleuropein per tablespoon of tincture. In other words, an entire tablespoon of extract contains only slightly more extract than a 750 mg. capsule. (The extraction method for the Olive Leaf made for the Phyto Rx line is different - and those results will be published shortly.)
Again, we make both available, but the capsules will be more suitable for most people.

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