Antioxidants – facts & benefits

50 x more powerful than Vitamin E
20 x more powerful than Vitamin C
Powerful gallic esters are found only in the grape seed

Grapeseed antioxidant used as a medicine in France with only grape seed classified as a ‘medical agent’

Textbooks available in France demonstrate significant range of benefits by using grapeseed OPC

Vinotherapy spa treatments use grapes and grape seed specifically as cell rejuvenators, detoxifiers and antioxidants

• Exhibits anti-inflammatory properties, strengthens blood vessel walls and provides connective tissue support (Dr. J. Masquelier)
• Lowers the risk of coronary disease by up to 35% (1979 A.S. Leger ‘French Paradox’ article in Lancet)
• Antioxidant activity helps prevent DNA damage
• Grape seed extract is used as one of Europes leading natural treatments
• Anti-oxidants bond with collagen to promote healthy skin tone and skin health
• Simple chemical structure allows OPC to be readily absorbed into the bloodstream unlike many other flavonoids
• As grape seed is soluable in both water and oil, it can penetrate the different types of cell membranes therefore providing antioxidant protection through- out the body including the brain by crossing the blood/brain barrier (very few substances are able to do this)
• Antioxidants, by definition are natural biochemical substances that protect our living cells from free radical damage
• Oxidation (by free radicals) is literally decay – antioxidants are the bodies line of defense
• Anti-oxidants are the body’s seek & destroy defense against free radicals by protecting and repairing at a cellular level