The Olive leaf, Ancient Drug for Cancer Prevention

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OLIVE is known as one source producer of the nutrition good for the body. Usually people many know oil or olives in processing of cuisine. Not just fruit and its oil only, which beneficial for you, but olive leaf can also be used for health.

Olive leaf is source very good for anti-cancer. Compound apigenin and luteolin are a source from agent sinkonin anti-malarial. And oleuropein also has been demonstrated the ability of protective against breast cancer, as reported by FoxNews.

The olive leaf extract also acts as an anti-inflammatory. Such as oxidation, inflammation is a key factor in chronic disease and degenerative. Research on animals show that the addition of olive leaf extract can protect against nerve damage and possibly also in the case of stroke.

In the world of medicinal plants, the use olives as drug of traditional plant has been known since centuries years ago. Olive leaf is considered as a tonic in ancient times, olive leaf and olive leaf extract appears to promote better health overall and help ward off a variety of serious health problems.

Although fruit and olive oil is more popular than its leaves. However, many studies that lead to the utilization of olive leaf as one of the heritage of ancient drug that must be learned.

Source:  FoxNews