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by Tina Wellman, Ph.D., PNE
Replenishing Your Immune System
with Nature's Antibiotic Apothecary
In a world of superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics and the coming “plague” of new viruses, scientific research shows that olive leaf extract kills germs and infections of all kinds and that power comes from its active agent, elenolic acid with its salt compound, calcium d-elenolate.
What We Are Facing Today
The human immune system is the body’s defense barrier against foreign intruders. Immunity is a function of our adaptational responses to stressors. Sources of stress that “test” our immunity are pathogens, including bacteria, virus, fungi and parasites. The degree to which our immunity is compromised determines our longevity, quality of health and life.
Infectious diseases caused by these pathogens have reached crisis status, becoming the nation’s third highest disease etiology following cancer and heart disease. Paralleling this circumstance is our antibiotic dilemma: the efficacious wonder drugs of yesteryear have been overcome by “superbugs” that threaten to disarm conventional medical treatments against germ warfare.
A potpourri of predisposing factors contribute to our ongoing immune degradation. Chronic exposure to chemicals is a major factor disrupting our immunity. We apply them (lotions, ointments), inhale them (industrial emissions) and ingest them (through our pesticide laden food chain). Additionally, millions of pounds of chemicals in the form of antibiotics are consumed annually to treat a variety of health conditions from the common cold to postnasal drip. Yet antibiotics are only effective against bacterial infections. Years later we find these same lifesaving compounds act as a double-edged sword. As they indiscriminately destroy good and bad bacteria, our vulnerability to pathogens increases and our immunity decreases.
Pathogens, similar to pesticides, do not recognize borders. Once unleashed into the system, pathogens travel throughout the body, disrupting our immunity, like chemicals that travel through the “atmosphere, waterways and ocean currents as well as on imported food and fiber.”1 The pesticide and antibiotic dilemma share a common bond—sooner or later pests develop resistance to pesticides similar to what we experience with an increasing resistance to antibiotic drugs—“while in the process our natural predators are being wiped out.”2
Antibiotics as Healers and Slayers
In 1928 when Dr. Alexander Fleming brought penicillin to the forefront, antibiotics ascended to power as a panacea for annihilating bacterial infections.3 As a result, human longevity increased. While the virtues of antibiotics in arresting lethal and ominous infectious diseases cannot be disputed, they are not without their side effects.
Antibiotics are known to disrupt the large bowel flora, the “friendly” bacteria which fend off systemic infection and enhance immunity. Allergic reactions often occur. Penicillin-induced anaphylaxis has proved fatal in numerous cases. Tetracyclines and sulfa drugs are some of many antibiotics that incite allergenicity.4 Finally, excessive use and abuse of antibiotics have resulted in drug and multi-drug resistant microbes that evade our immune system.
Generations later these same wonder drugs find themselves outmaneuvered by “survival of the fittest” superbugs possessing defense mechanisms capable of making them winners of the Darwinian marathon race. These bugs are constantly building, modifying and rebuilding their defense systems to thwart our standard protocols. The result is the hostile takeover of our immune system.
It is quite an ominous thought to find your sole source of infectious disease control inadequate to protect you from harm. However this is the very impetus redirecting medical research to look elsewhere for alternative antimicrobial sources. As the Western world renews its interest in herbal medicine for health and beauty, an impressive herbal renaissance is growing in “alternative medicine”as a “complementary “ approach to integrate into conventional medical methods.5
Phytochemical Antibiotics: A Natural Alternative
Among the most essential life-preserving plants overlooked for modern pharmacology is the classically humble and ancient olive tree, botanically designated Olea europaea L. In ancient times it was used for holy anointing during regal coronations. In modern times it has symbolized peace to bitter rivals. Its culinary properties (longevity and stability) as a cooking oil are well-known and respected. And its current popularity as part of the Mediterranean diet recognizes its fruit and oil as having many health benefits.
A more recent renaissance of the olive tree’s by-products can be found in the olive leaf which contains a synergistic blend of phenolic compounds and amino acids that can kill diseases without hurting the host. Viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites all fall to the relentless pathogen-antagonistic nature of the olive leaf. Powdered olive leaf extract has been shown to contain a wide spectrum of therapeutic antimicrobiotic agents. Noteworthy results were realized in the 1800s when an olive leaf solution was prepared and administered to counteract malaria.6 In the early 1900s a “phenolic”compound, the bitter glucoside “oleuropin,”was thought to give the olive tree its disease resistance. Later research conducted by Upjohn pharmaceutical company identified the primary ingredient in oleuropin that inhibited the growth of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites was “calcium elenolate,” the calcium salt of elenolic acid. Lab tests conducted with calcium elenolate inhibited the growth of every virus tested.
While calcium elenolate was found to be very successful in vitro (test tube) the Upjohn company found in vivo (animal or human) it quickly bound to proteins in blood serum which rendered it ineffective. As a result, Upjohn abandoned their project despite the promising results they had achieved in destroying pathogens with calcium elenolate.
However, research continued and in the mid-1990s a Nevada-based company, East Park Research, identified the source of the binding problem. They then developed and patented a process for extracting d-elenolic acid, which retains its deadly antipathogenic properties and is inert to our blood chemistry.
Marketed under the trade name d-Lenolate, this patent ingredient is becoming widely recognized for the important part it can play in helping to fight a broad spectrum of disease-causing pathogens and thereby boosting the body’s immune system.
In researching this article we had the opportunity to communicate with several doctors who have tested this d-Lenolate extract under some very demanding conditions.
My first contact was with Dr. Robert Lyons, O.M.D., M.S., medical director of the Lyons Clinic in Budapest, Hungary. Initially dubious, Dr. Lyons was astounded by the performance of this non-toxic phytochemical extract. In a clinical test conducted under his auspices d-Lenolate showed a high rate of improvement and recovery from both viral and bacterial infections. Dr. Lyons was also instrumental in preventing a Hungarian hospital from closing due to its rampant infestation with staph aureus infection which could not be brought under control. It is now known that this virulent bacteria has even shown resistance to its strongest antibiotic, vancomycin.9 In a last ditch effort to save the hospital from closure, a trial run with d-Lenolate was tested on 500 plus patients. The results were so impressive that the hospital is now thriving and administering d-Lenolate to most of its incoming patients.
Now as he travels through 16 European countries teaching complementary medicine and TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) to diverse practitioner audiences, Dr. Lyons’ curriculum includes a discourse on the therapeutic application and efficacy of the d-Lenolate.
In a recent interview, Dr. Lyons noted disease entities ranging from respiratory diseases to severe herpetic lesions responding favorably in as little as seven to 14 days. Inasmuch as part of his lecturing includes speaking to oncologists, Dr. Lyons noted a particular fungus, Candida Guilliermondii, to be associated with certain hormonal cancers and psoriasis. Favorable response is noted not by treating the cancer but by killing the fungus. Dr. Lyons emphasized the unique application of d-Lenolate to such diverse pathogens lies in its innate ability to annihilate these bugs. “d-Lenolate does not cure any disease,” acknowledges the doctor. Its main virtue is that “it kills pathogens,” thus unburdening the immune system and allowing the body’s inherent healing mechanisms to operate. If your immune system is functioning optimally, you should not have to endure lengthy recovery from pathogenic invasion whether it be from chicken pox, Epstein-Barr, the common cold or the herpes simplex virus.
Dr. Bernie Mizock, a recently retired surgeon who has conducted double-blind studies in the application of d-Lenolate in the treatment of candida hypersensitivity syndrome and arthritis, noted excellent results. In both instances a randomized placebo control study was conducted with 30 subjects for 60 days. Standardized blood tests were conducted on the candida group and recorded at the outset and conclusion of the study, along with a yeast questionnaire. No additional nutrients, exercise or lifestyle modifications were initiated. Subjects took six capsules of d-Lenolate daily during the trial test. At the end of 60 days (June 1999), symptoms were reduced in excess of 50 percent by those consuming d-Lenolate while the placebo group noted a 20 percent reduction in symptomatology.10
Similar results were obtained in the arthritic test group only arthritis symptoms were assessed using the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) index. Again no changes in diet, exercise or medications were made. A dose of six caps daily were administered. Testing occurred from September 2000 to January 2001.11 In a recent interview Dr. Mizock mentioned what “remarkable results” he considered these test results to illustrate, particularly for a natural substance. Having trained medical students, in addition to performing gall bladder and multiple types of surgical procedures, Dr. Mizock found these anecdotal studies quite inspiring.
While most professionals interviewed noted d-Lenolate’s exceptional performance as a pathogen killer, family practice physician Dr. Adrian Hohenwater of Hershey, PA, considers d-Lenolate to be a “superfood.” Bitter though this olive extract may be, Dr. Hohenwater prefers to “test taste” his products and noted?d-Lenolate has a “full-bodied flavor.” Anecdotally, Dr. Hohenwarter notes very positive results using d-Lenolate for urinary tract infections including interstitial cystitis. Additional noteworthy applications ranged from the common cold to gonorrhea, bronchitis, sinusitis and chronic yeast infections (candida). Dr. Hohenwater noted a positive response in patients with heart arrhythmia in combination with supplemental magnesium. Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome acknowledged an increase in overall energy. Dr. Hohenwater commented that he has not witnessed a patient allergic to or intolerant of d-Lenolate.
Conclusion/Observations
East Park Research president Gordon Melcher notes, “Most doctors will tell you that your immune system is your coat of armor protecting you from many diseases and infections. If this were not true, the human race would have become extinct a long time ago.” For the immune system to “protect its coat of armor,” notes Melcher, “it must rid itself of pathogens.”
How refreshing it is to have available a non-prescription, broad spectrum antibiotic with virtually no side effects, (excepting a mild die-off effect) that attacks and kills virus, retrovirus, bacteria, parasites, yeast and fungus. In our present troubled world it is appropriate that the ancient olive tree returns to hold a prominent place in its 7000-year history to bear its leaves for health and healing.
In a day and age where we are increasingly violated by insidious and powerful predators, it is time to declare holy war on unholy bugs of prey. It is also an opportunity to explore whether the biblical “tree of life” spoken of in the Book of Revelation is the olive tree and whether the leaves of the tree are for the “healing of the nations.”
For further information contact:
Dr. Tina Wellman at ECS Distributors
phone: 817-652-3792
fax: 817-652-1543
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