Benefits of Grape Seeds Extract
Research found that grape seeds extract has a wide-reaching health benefits.
Grape seeds have been shown to improve flexibility in joints, arteries and body tissues such as your heart, for instance. It also helps to improve blood circulation by strengthening capillaries, arteries and veins. Additional health benefits include those that follow.
High Blood Pressure
The antioxidants, including flavonoids, linoleic acid, and phenolic procyanidins, in grape seed extract help protect your blood vessels from damage, which may help prevent high blood pressure.
Grape seed extract has previously been shown to help dilate blood vessels and was shown to lower blood pressure in people with metabolic syndrome (most of whom also had prehypertension).
Another study found that grape seed extract beverage improved blood pressure in people with pre-hypertension.
Chronic Venous Insufficiency
The OPCs in grape seed extract may benefit this condition. About 80 percent of those who consumed OPCs had an improvement in symptoms after the first 10 days of treatment. Feelings of heaviness, itching, and pain were reduced significantly.
Bone Strength
Grape seed extract has been shown to improve bone formation and bone strength in animal studies.
Swelling (Edema)
Grape seed extract has been found to inhibit leg swelling that can occur during prolonged sitting. According to a study,"Edema is common after breast cancer surgery, and one double-blind, placebo-controlled study found that breast cancer patients who took 600 mg of grape seed extract daily after surgery for six months had less edema and pain than those who took placebo.
Another study found that people who took grape seed extract after experiencing a sports injury had less swelling than those who took placebo."
Cognitive Decline
studdies found that grape seed extract may reverse hippocampal dysfunction in the brain by reducing oxidative stress and preserving mitochondrial function. It may even be useful as a preventative or therapeutic agent in Alzheimer's disease.
Oral Health
Grape seed extract solution led to less demineralization and more remineralization of cavities in one lab study. Since remineralization is an effective treatment that may stop or reverse early tooth decay, grape seed extract could play a beneficial role in oral health.
Diabetes
Grape seed extract administered along with exercise training improved lipid profile, weight loss, blood pressure and other diabetic complications better than either intervention administered alone.
Slight evidence suggests grape seed extract may also be beneficial for:
Improving night vision
Protecting collagen and elastin in your skin (for anti-aging effects)
Treating hemorrhoids
Protecting against oxidative rancidity and bacterial pathogens
