Heart Support Found in Two Ancient Foods

by Vic Shayne, PhD

Heart problems abound in America. With all the modern medical approaches to heart disease, natural health care still presents two traditional foods that continue to support the entire cardiovascular system.

Medical research continues to show the fantastic properties of grape seed and green tea, two ancient foods, in cardiovascular prevention and healing. One of the active ingredients of note, now found in VasCor, are oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPC). “Proanthocyanidins deserve their stellar reputation as antioxidants that quench free radicals and potentiate other antioxidants. A recent mouse study by Debasis Bagchi, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Creighton University School of Pharmacy in Omaha, Neb., also found that their grape seed extract protected tissue from oxidation better than the antioxidant vitamins C and E or beta-carotene.1

OPCs appear to inhibit several factors contributing to atherosclerosis according to animal studies. Proanthocyanidins may help explain the “French Paradox,” or why low coronary heart disease rates exist in French provinces known for high-fat foods and red wine consumption. Red wine could be considered an alcohol tincture of several potent flavonoids, including proanthocyanidins from grape seeds.1

Bilberry, hawthorn and grape seeds, found in VasCor, have all been cited as beneficial in venous insufficiency and other cardiovascular support.
Sources:

1. Sterling, RD, Marilyn, Proanthocyanidin Power, Pine bark and grape seed contain the flavonoids OPCs, which offer antioxidant protection against heart disease and cancer, New Hope Media, Nutrition Science News, Jun 00