THE OLIVE LEAF AS MEDICINE?

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Do you like olives?  I don’t.

Sometimes I can stand them if they are mixed well with other things like in a salad, but generally I don’t seek them out.  

However, I can definitely get behind using olive oil.  I cook with it regularly for my family.  At this point, most everyone knows how wonderful it is for your health compared to many other oils on the market.

Yet still- I love Olive Leaf Extract (from olive leaves) even more!  Have you ever thought about an olive leaf as medicine?  It possesses powerful abilities to promote and optimize your health. The unique molecule that gives the olive leaf a multitude of health benefits is known as oleuropein.

Oleuropein is known to have a remarkable impact on blood pressure and heart disease along with other chronic age-related diseases.  There is now convincing evidence that oleuropein and olive leaf extract can help prevent many underlying factors that lead to cancer, diabetes, stroke, neurodegenerative diseases and arthritis.

Along with oleuropein, Olive Leaf Extract also contains calcium elenolate, and together they are powerful active ingredients that can destroy viruses, fungi, bacteria, and parasites that cause disease.  

And it does all this without harming beneficial bacteria in the gut. Amazing, right?!

In the Bible there are even references to using the olive leaf as medicine long ago: “The fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.” (Ezekiel 47:12)

MY EXPERIENCE WITH OLIVE LEAF EXTRACT

During my time healing from Hashimoto’s I learned that many times when you have a weakened immune system it opens the door for many different types of possible gut infections.  Yuck!

I never ended up doing the tests involved to check if I had any specific intestinal infection, however, because I had learned how powerful olive leaf extract can be when fighting viruses, bacteria, fungi -and any number of other harmful things in your gut- I decided to add it to my daily routine.  

Olive leaf extract also works to boost your immune system and detoxify your body.  My immune system definitely needed a boost at the time, but I never expected it to work so wonderfully!  

And though many tests have been done to see if you can take too much olive leaf extract, high doses never been found to have a negative impact on health.

 

A few months after adding olive leaf extract to my daily routine I ended up with a large drop in my thyroid antibodies!!  Considering how hard it is to get these little things to drop with diet and supplements alone, this was a wonderful surprise.  

The olive leaf extract that I chose to use is by Olivus OliveLeafMAX and I have to say I will probably continue to take them for the foreseeable future due to the fantastic health benefits I have discovered.

You can read about my battle with Hashimoto’s in Part 1: What is Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis?.  I wrote an 8 part series describing my experience overcoming Hashimoto’s in hopes of helping others know it was possible to heal.

I started doing even more research into olive leaf extract and learned that it can even kill the common cold virus and many other things we come in contact with daily.

When beginning to use olive leaf extract some people will experience what is known as the “Herxheimer Reaction” – also known as “die-off”- due to extra toxins created in the body when these pathogens begin to die.  

These toxins can overwhelm the body at first as the body tries to clear them out and cause symptoms similar to the common cold or the flu.

I never experienced this when I began taking olive leaf extract, but generally it is said that this can last about a week.

THE OLIVE LEAF AS MEDICINE

When your immune system is not functioning well and your gut health is low, you are inviting in all kinds of pathogens.  

You cannot always control the pathogens around you but you can strengthen your gut and reduce your vulnerability by including olive leaf extract in your daily routine.

These days our medical communities are worried about superbugs and drug resistant viruses and bacteria.  You can read more about this in a wonderful paper I found online called The Case for Olive Leaf Extract.  

Overall, olive leaf extract can protect against many age related diseases, balance and maintain healthy gut flora, and strengthen your immune system.

Below I have included a chart from this paper that shows a fabulous (albeit partial) list of all the things olive leaf extract is effective against.  Its mind blowing!

Olive Leaf Extract:  Immunity Helper “In laboratory testing, olive leaf extract is effective against viruses, retroviruses, bacterium, parasites, yeast, fungi and multiple other microbes. Here is a partial list.”

AIDS Anthrax Athlete’s Foot Bladder Infections (UTI) Botulism Campylobacteriosis Candidiasis (Yeast) Chicken Pox Chlamydia Cholera Colds Croup Diarrheal Diseases Ear Infection (Otitis Media) Ebola Sudan & Zaire Viruses E. Coli Encephalitis Epstein -Barr Virus Food Poisoning Gastroenteritis Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Helicobacter pylori (Ulcers) Hepatitis A, B, C Herpes Simplex (I & II) Herpes Zoster (Shingles) Impetigo Infectious Mononucleosis Influenza Jock Itch (Tinea Cruris) Legionnaires’ Disease Lyme Disease

Malaria Measles (Rubella, Rubeola) Meningitis (Bacterial & Viral) Mumps Mycoplasma Pneumonia Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Pink Eye (Conjunctivitis) Plague Pneumonia Polio Rabies Rheumatic Fever Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Retrovirus Infection/Diarrhea Salmonella Scabies Scarlet Fever Sexually Transmitted Diseases Shigella Smallpox Strep Throat Toxic Shock Syndrome Traveler’s Diarrhea Tuberculosis Typhoid Fever Warts Worms (Pin, Ring, Round) Yellow Fever

Source:https://www.e-tyh.com/assets/images/PDF/Case%20for%20Olive%20Leaf%20Extract%20for%20Immunity.pdf