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I recently started using the Olympian brand. This brand is much more powerful than the two brands I used before. I am wondering if the Seagate brand might be even better than this. I was looking for reviews of olive leaf extract comparing the brands, but haven't seen any. Claims about oleuropean content may be exaggerated by some brands. So far I am impressed with the Olympian brand but wonder if Seagate might be much better. The Seagate is more expensive, but not that expensive. Any other brands you suggest? I want something powerful, but not too expensive.
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Frontier Coop powder Olive Leaf, I got a pound of that for 15 dollars! It is Organic as well. When getting herbs you can get powder and capsule them up yourself, it's alot cheaper and you can take more. Starwest Botanicals has some good powder as well! Mountain Rose Herbs as well, good stuff.
Best way to tak it would obviously be the fresh leaf or plant, the second best IMO is powder not standardized capsules which cost alot more and are altered.
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In Sanskrit, tulsi means literally "the incomparable one" and has been revered since ancient times. Tulsi, the holy basil, is said to have grown at the site of Christ’s crucifixion and is associated with St. Basil’s feast.
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$15 a pound sounds very cheap, but is it effective? The last two brands of olive leaf extract I tried didn't help much. The Olympian is very strong and very effective. You cheap bulk powder might work as well as the concentrated suff(if a much larger dosage is taken) or it might not. You should experiment. Perhaps buy just one bottle of the Olympian and see how your bulk olive leaf compares. When I first opened the bottle of the Olympian olive leaf, I was struck by how much more fragrent it is than the other brands I tried. Is your olive leaf very fragrent?
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$15 a pound sounds very cheap, but is it effective? The last two brands of olive leaf extract I tried didn't help much. The Olympian is very strong and very effective. You cheap bulk powder might work as well as the concentrated suff(if a much larger dosage is taken) or it might not. You should experiment. Perhaps buy just one bottle of the Olympian and see how your bulk olive leaf compares. When I first opened the bottle of the Olympian olive leaf, I was struck by how much more fragrent it is than the other brands I tried. Is your olive leaf very fragrent? It works for me, if I take it or even near a half a teaspoon I get die offs like crazy, so yes it is pretty strong (Organic too). I don't know what you tried though so I can't say if it would be effective for you. It is fragrant, I smell it as soon as I open that bag, good stuff IMO. I might try the stuff you have, but most of it is altered to get a higher % count correct (Oleurpuren or whatever it is lol). I will try something different to tell you if my Powder is the real deal. Whats funny is powders are cheaper but some work very well and you get them in bulk, which I like to try before some pills with additives.
In Sanskrit, tulsi means literally "the incomparable one" and has been revered since ancient times. Tulsi, the holy basil, is said to have grown at the site of Christ’s crucifixion and is associated with St. Basil’s feast.
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Some articles liked the idea of extracts rather than the leaf, while others liked the combined approach, and advised to take a strong extract together with the ground leaf.
Seagate discounts the whole idea of standardizing for oleuropein, and instead doesn't try to optimize or exclude anything in the olive leaf, but to concentrate everything there.
I guess I should try the Seagate and see how it compares with other brands.
Some articles say to take olive leaf with food. Some say to take it on an empty stomach, and some say it can be taken either way. I guess arguments can be made for each, but which is better? Perhaps taking it around 20 minutes before a meal might be best?
The one thing I noticed was that the Olympian brand of olive leaf extract was so much more fragrant than the other brands I used. I didn't even open the capsule. Just opening the bottle gave a strong fragrence. With the other brand I still have I could not really smell anything with my nose next to the open bottle.
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When I capsule my own Olive Leaf from the powder it smells strong as heck even when I open it from afar! I guess it good to go then JK!!!! I love this stuff, but switched to Tulsi a month or so again and will go back to it again IF I have to, right now my focus is on the Tulsi Tea and their benefits, you should read up on it and try to get some man! It is sacred in India, the man at work is Indian and says they pray around it and it is Holy Basil and the tree of life to them! That stuff is great, trust me you will be happier on it and and it heals so much, they feel no other herb can match it.
I can't wait till I get my tulsi plant from him to take, thats how excited I am about it.
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Aside from the fragrence, I think another measure of olive leaf potency may be bitterness. I noticed that the stronger and more potent(also causing stronger die off) olive leaf extract I have
also tastes much more bitter.
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Aside from the fragrence, I think another measure of olive leaf potency may be bitterness. I noticed that the stronger and more potent(also causing stronger die off) olive leaf extract I have
also tastes much more bitter. Check, my powder from Frontier Coop checks off on all accounts you say, and it's cheaper in powder to capsule yourself! You can take alot more and save tons of money.
In Sanskrit, tulsi means literally "the incomparable one" and has been revered since ancient times. Tulsi, the holy basil, is said to have grown at the site of Christ’s crucifixion and is associated with St. Basil’s feast.
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