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OPCs for Optimal Health

By Jayna Locke

• OPCs (or oligomeric proanthocyanidins) are plant derived bioflavonoids that have a powerful antioxidant property.
  
  These organic compounds are water-soluble and bioavailable, which means that your body assimilates and makes use of them, rather than simply flushing them out.
  
  OPCs are made from a combination of some of the most powerful known antioxidants: grape seed, pine bark and red wine extracts as well as bilberry and citrus extracts.
  
  Benefits of OPCs
  
  OPCs have a wide range of benefits.

• OPCs are highly effective free radical neutralizers, reducing oxidative stress and damage that occurs in the body due to exposure to toxins and pollutants in the environment; 

• • OPCs are crucial in their role in supporting the circulatory system and strengthening the capillaries, and thus provide significant support for a healthy cardiovascular system;
• • OPCs have anti-inflammatory properties, which makes them beneficial for people with arthritis and joint pain;
• • They are a natural histamine inhibitor, and thus have enormous benefits for people suffering from allergies and asthma;
• • They are known to promote healthy blood sugar levels, which offers benefits to those with diabetes, glucose intolerance, metabolic syndrome, or prediabetes;
• • They promote optimal blood viscosity, thereby offering a reduced risk of blood clotting, stroke, myocardial infarction (heart attack), and excessive bleeding.
  
  History of OPCs
  
  In 1534, French explorer Jacques Cartier was leading an expedition up the St. Lawrence River. Trapped by bad weather, Cartier and his crew were forced to survive on a ration of salted meat and biscuits. Cartier's crew began to suffer from severe malnutrition, which in those days was a common threat to ship's crew members. The crew was suffering from the symptoms of scurvy.
  
  Many crewmembers died before the surviving members encountered a friendly native American who advised them to make a tea from the bark and needles of the pine tree to cure their malady. They complied and, as a result, Cartier and many crewmembers survived.
  
  Four centuries later Szent Györgyi was searching for components in plants that were effective for treating leaky blood capillaries in the disease scurvy. This led him to the discovery of vitamin C, an achievement that awarded him the Nobel Prize in 1937. During his experiments, he noticed that vitamin C wasn't exclusively responsible for maintaining the integrity of blood vessels. He found substances to which the scientific community now refers to as flavonoids or OPCs. Szent Györgyi at his time coined them "vitamin P." He and his coworkers dedicated their research efforts to the benefits of flavonoids for healthy blood vessels for decades. The research revealed the strengthening of blood vessel walls, the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of Pycnogenol®, citrus flavonoids and many other OPC sources.
  
  Outstanding Safety Record of OPCs
  
  OPCs have been used in Europe under medical supervision for over 30 years with no reports of adverse effects. Over one million people worldwide utilize these valuable bioflavonoids daily. OPCs have been tested time and time again for safety by conventional, scientific methods at leading research centers worldwide including the Pasteur Institute. OPCs have been found to be non-toxic, non-antigenic, non-teratogenic, non-mutagenic, and non-carcinogenic.
  
  Market America's OPC-3^TM
  
  OPC-3^TM contains a combination of oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs) from sources that include grape seed, red wine and Pycnogenol® pine bark extracts. These powerful ingredients are the best medically researched components available.
  
  The red wine extract contains flavonoids called leucocyanidins from the skin of red grapes. Leucocyanidins are bioflavonoids with powerful antioxidant properties crucial to their role in supporting the circulatory system. Pycnogenol® has been evaluated in more than a hundred studies, with a total of more than 2000 participants, demonstrating significant benefits for a strong cardiovascular system and healthy lipid and sugar metabolism.
  
  OPC-3^TM also contains bilberry and citrus extracts, which are known to have positive effects on vision and histamine release. OPC-3 combines powerful OPC species which exert specialized health benefits for every part of the body. Together, this combination of OPC is superior to any OPC on the market in active ingredients and isotonic capability. This powerful formula is delivered to your system in an isotonic solution that maximizes absorption.
• OPC-3^TM has a pleasant natural grape flavor, is a vegetarian product, and mixes instantly when added to water. This product should be taken on an empty stomach for the fastest, most effective delivery of the active ingredient.
  
  Each capful of OPC-3^TM contains 125 milligrams of bioflavonoids, of which 75 milligrams are oligomeric proanthocyanidins in an isotonic-capable base. That means that the OPC-3^TM active ingredients are delivered in the highest concentration to the small intestine, where most absorption of nutrients occurs.
  

• How OPC-3^TM Works
• Our bodies are made up of billions of molecules held together by electromagnetic forces. These chemical bonds are created with paired electrons. Free radicals, which are unstable molecules that have lost an electron, seek to replace the lost electron by randomly attacking nearby molecules and extracting desired electrons.
• One free radical can damage a million or more molecules in a chain reaction referred to as radical propagation, which leads to oxidative stress. Uncontrolled oxidation is very destructive. It is analogous to effects we see in our environment, such as the rusting of metal, the rotting of meat, the browning of apples or the hardening of old rubber.
• Oxidation in our body by free radicals is thought to be responsible for premature aging, wrinkling of skin, hardening of arteries, stiffening of joints, formation of cataracts, the initiation of cancer and much more.
• We are constantly exposed to free radicals via such processes as antimicrobial activity by white blood cells, sunlight, metabolism of unhealthy diet, stress, and pollutants. Our ability to fight free radical damage effectively is compromised by inadequate nutritional choices or diets that contain limited amounts of antioxidants. Antioxidant supplementation can very effectively assists our bodies in countering the effects of free radicals.
• OPC-3^TM makes available the most potent antioxidants currently known in a rapidly bioavailable form. For best results, OPC-3^TM should be incorporated into a regimen that includes a wholesome balanced diet and dietary supplements rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, and selenium, to name a few essentials for optimal health.
• OPC-3 is a natural food supplement that should be taken for a lifetime.

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Thank you for reading. All comments are welcome. I look forward to providing you with more health tips in the future.

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