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This author claims broad spectrum protection from infection when taking olive leaf extract:

"Olive Leaf Extract: Nature's Antibiotic" a book by Dr. Morton Walker.

"Scientific research has now shown that olive leaf extract contains powerful active ingredients, such as oleuropein and calcium elenolate, which actually help destroy viruses, fungi, bacteria, and parasites that cause disease".

"Now that olive leaf extract is available to the public, we can resist the onset of diseases and maladies listed in this table": AIDS, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Hepatitus, Herpes, Syphilis, Urinary Tract Infection, Warts, etc.

Wow, does it cure cancer too? Maybe it can reverse dementia?

Sorry for the sarcasm, i'm just more than a tad skeptical of claims of natural remedies to cure such a wide range of incurable diseases...

It didn't say cure. It said "resist the onset". To me, that means prevention, by boosting the immune system. Go to Amazon.com and read the reviews for the book and for the product. Other products with good reviews on Amazon are grapefruit seed extract and colloidal silver. These products are reasonably inexpensive, readily available and easy to use. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Quoting from the Dr. Axe website:

"While employed at UCLA Medical School in the 1980s, Larry C. Ford, MD, documented over 650 different disease-causing pathogens that were destroyed in minutes when exposed to small amounts of silver. Colloidal silver, unlike its modern prescription antibiotic counterpart, simply doesn’t create resistance or immunity in the organisms that are killed by it. In addition, a study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine supported ionic colloidal silver as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent against both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Colloidal silver benefits can be experienced as an anti-viral for HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, herpes, shingles and warts."

Quoting from NCBI website:

"OBJECTIVES: Grapefruit-seed extract (GSE) Citricidal has, in recent reports, been reported to be successful in combating a variety of common infectious agents. In our study, drops of concentrated grapefruit-seed extract were tested for antibacterial properties against a number of gram-positive and gram-negative organisms."

"DESIGN: Sixty-seven (67) distinct biotypes were tested for their susceptibilities to the GSE as well as to 5 other topical antibacterials (Silvadene, Sulfamylon, Bactroban, Nitrofurazone, and Silvadene, Nystatin)."

"RESULTS: The GSE was consistently antibacterial against all of the biotypes tested"

"CONCLUSIONS: Our preliminary data thus suggest an antibacterial characteristic to GSE that is comparable to that of proven topical antibacterials."

Genosys wrote: ↑Fri 25-Jan-2019 11:34 am Wow, does it cure cancer too? Maybe it can reverse dementia?

Strangely enough, I just stumbled on evidence to support that.

Quoting from the lifeextension website:

"Unexpected Benefits of Olive Leaf Extract"
"June 2013 By Julian Everson"

"Scientists have isolated the unique molecule that provides olive oil with its multitude of health and life-extending benefits. Known as oleuropein, it is the polyphenol that can help lower bad cholesterol and blood pressure, prevent cancer, protect against oxidative damage, and help guard against cognitive decline. Oleuropein provides the distinctive tangy, pungent, almost bitter flavor found in high quality extra virgin olive oils. It’s also responsible for most of olive oil’s antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and disease-fighting characteristics. In fact, when oleuropein was given to animals with tumors, the tumors completely regressed and disappeared in 9 to 12 days!"

"The Mediterranean diet reduces your risk for virtually every condition associated with aging. Olive oil is a major component of that diet. Olive leaves contain higher amounts of oleuropein, a polyphenol with unique health-improving attributes. These extracts have been used in traditional medicine for centuries to improve age-related diseases."

You can find the full article by doing a web search on the title of the article.

Quoting from the drweil website:

"Laboratory studies show that olive leaf extract can suppress a number of viruses, including those that cause the common cold. Oleuropein, the extract, is a bitter substance removed during processing. In animal experiments the compound has been well-tolerated with no serious adverse effects. It has been reported to increase natural killer cell function and to be effective against viruses like HIV, hepatitis B and C, and herpes."

Quoting from the ncbi website:

"Oleuropein has several pharmacological properties, including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-atherogenic, anti-cancer, antimicrobial, and antiviral, and for these reasons, it is commercially available as food supplement in Mediterranean countries.

"Anti-cancer effect: A plethora of minor constituents in olive oil have been identified as effective agents in mitigating the initiation, promotion and progression of multistage carcinogenesis".

"Antimicrobial effect: Oleuropein has been shown to have strong antimicrobial activity against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria as well as mycoplasma. Recently, Sudjana et al showed the antimicrobial activity of commercial Olea europaea (olive) leaf extracts (abundantly oleuropein) against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)".

"Antiviral effect: The olive leaf extracts were investigated for their antiviral activity against HIV-1 infection and replication. Cell-to-cell transmission of HIV was inhibited in a dose-dependent manner, and HIV replication was inhibited in an in vitro experiment".

"Neuroprotective activity: In vitro and epidemiological studies have pointed out the positive impact of natural extracted polyphenols on the incidence of age-related disorders, such as dementia. One study has reported that oleuropein decreases or even prevents Aβ aggregation, which is inherent to Alzheimer's disease".

Quoting from nationalpost website:

"a University of Manitoba team tried soaking condoms in a solution of silver nanoparticles, and the treated devices appeared to kill all HIV and herpes in lab experiments. When silver is turned into nano-sized bits, it seems to become more effective at combating bacteria and viruses".

Quoting from ncbi website:

"In this work, we demonstrate that silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) undergo a size-dependent interaction with herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2. Silver nanoparticles are capable of reducing viral infectivity, probably by blocking interaction of the virus with the cell. From the present study it was observed that AgNPs were capable of controlling viral infectivity, most likely by blocking interaction of the virus with the cell".

Quoting from holtorfmed website:

"Colloidal silver is a very small particle (0. 001-0. 1 micron) that remains suspended in water without forming an ionic solution. A study published in 1992 demonstrated silver's effectiveness against HIV with an absence of toxicity and that silver is only toxic to bacteria and viruses and not to human cells. A 1993 study tested bacterial resistance in 409 strains of bacteria. No resistant strains were found. With the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, silver is re-emerging a modern medicine because all pathogenic organisms have failed to develop an immunity to it".

Quoting from researchgate website:

"The Effectiveness of Processed Grapefruit-Seed Extract as An Antibacterial Agent: Recent testimonials report grapefruit-seed extract, or GSE (Citricidal) to be effective against more than 800 bacterial and viral strains. This study investigated GSE for antibacterial activity at varying time intervals and concentration levels. The initial data shows GSE to have antimicrobial properties against a wide range of gram-negative and gram-positive organisms at dilutions found to be safe. It was evident that GSE disrupts the bacterial membrane and liberates the cytoplasmic contents within 15 minutes after contact even at more dilute concentrations".