Olive Leaf

June 21, 1999

I noticed the link to the patent on olive leaf mentioned 30-40% by weight of

oleuropein - is that the same as " standardized to 30-40% " ? I'm curious as

most of what I find in health food stores is standardized to 6%, although I

finally found a bottle of 12% made by Nature's Way, which I've been taking.

If you find out any more info on this, I would be interested.

Also, after reading the book, you would almost believe everyone had systemic

yeast and what I found most interesting is that it seemed to me that

antibiotics were the biggest cause of it. So taking olive leaf seems to me

to be something that will help overcome the bad side effects of antibotics.

Geez, and I thought metho and the others were supposed to be the bad guys.

No wonder my docs tell me that antibiotics don't come without surplus

baggage as well. I guess it is a matter of whether you want yeast or

whether you want your immune system suppressed some - interesting choice.

I know I sound rather negative, but this kind of irritates me a tad as when

I signed up to believe in Dr. Brown's theories, I got the impression that

minocycline was the lesser of all the evils - now I find out that I need to

overcome these yeast symptoms (which I guess are manifesting themselves in

me as RA, cause I sure don't seem to have any other sign of a yeast problem

that I would recognize). And systemic yeast sounds like something you don't

want to have!

So did Dr. Brown go on the assumption that everyone had yeast and how did he

treat for that? I don't recall him mentioning it a whole lot in his book.

Apparently he had success without worrying about it .

Somehow I sense all these issues are making this whole " cure thing " a pretty

confusing mess.

Is it only me or is anyone else a bit confused about all these issues?

Mark

RA 4/98 AP 7/98

Minocycline (Lederle generic) 100mg 2x/day; Lodine 400mg 3x/day;Zone Diet

(-12 lbs!); olive leaf

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