By Sheryl Walters,
Our bodies and immune systems are constantly fighting off foreign things such as pollution, bacteria and viruses. Stress from our fast paced lives is a leading cause of the further weakening of our body’s ability to combat illnesses.
Using drug substances, that act as an antibiotic, can actually weaken our immune systems [...]
By Nadia Brandon,
Olive leaf extract has been widely used, is considered safe, and is well researched. However, as with all herbal medicines, caution should still be exercised when using any herb as part of a treatment or nutritional plan.
The following information should not substitute for medical advice or conventional medical treatments. Before taking any [...]
By Alex Tilbury,
There’s an olive grove in Coominya, near Wivenhoe Dam, with 550,000 trees in it producing an Olive Leaf Extract that’s a global hot seller, in Australia alone, $1 million in product is sold every month.
A powerful antioxidant, 400 % more potent than vitamin C, the extract has many benefits for health and wellbeing, [...]
Great news for fans of Comvita’s Olive Leaf Complex: it’s now available in a convenient and easy-to-use oral spray.
Comvita’s Olive Leaf Complex is an all-natural daily health tonic which blends the benefits of the world’s oldest cultivated tree with modern extraction processes that use only fresh, natural olive leaves.
Naturally flavoured with peppermint and lemon, the [...]
A Queensland company has found global success exporting unique olive leaf products to Korea’s burgeoning natural medicine and equine industries.
Coominya-based company Olive Leaf Australia has tripled its already significant health supplement exports to Korea in the last 12 months.
The company’s Olive Leaf Extract is predominantly for use by natural medicine practitioners and their patients, but [...]
Taking olive leaf extract can help tackle high blood pressure and cholesterol, a new report has found.
The study published in Phytotherapy Research today, outlines the results of tests conducted on 20 identical twins, all of whom had increased blood pressure.
Researchers used identical twins as a way of eliminating uncertainties caused by genetic variations between different [...]
By Katie Bird,
An extract from olive leaves and oil could be useful as a soothing ingredient after UV exposure say scientists.
Oleuropein exhibits antioxidant and free radical scavenging activities which may go some way to explain the soothing qualities of the compound say scientists led by P. Perugini from the University of Pavia, Italy.
The research, published [...]
By Shane Starling,
Australian olive leaf extract pioneer, Olive Products Australia (OPA), has gained a European-first distribution deal in the UK for its high-antioxidant liquid supplement.
While olive leaf extracts already exist on the European market – predominantly in cosmeceutical formulations as well as teas and pill-form food supplements – OPA’s offering is one of the first [...]
A research group of the University of Granada has found out that maslinic acid, a compound present in the leaf and the olive skin wax extracted from alpeorujo (crushed olive pulp), has the capacity of preventing cancer as well as regulating apoptosis in carcinogenic processes.
Maslinic acid is a protease inhibitor that, among other features, has [...]
By Julie Kaufmann (Mercury News)
Our stories about home-cured olives and the widespread infestation of the olive fruit fly in our area (Food & Wine, Oct. 24) brought a phone call from Phil Cosentino, who retired from the family grocery business and now grows and sells fruit from more than 500 trees on two acres in [...]
New Zealand medicinal honey company Comvita has today completed its acquisition of Olive Products Australia (OPA).
OPA is a complementary medicine grower, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer in Queensland. It has developed a system to grow and extract the active compounds from olive tree leaves for use in human and therapeutic products.
Neil Craig, chairman of Comvita said: [...]
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