Multiple sclerosis, attention deficit disorder, degenerative diseases, diabetes, fatigue,
cardiovascular diseases, fibromyalgia, impotence, depression, lack of energy, overweight, rheumatism,
short-term memory loss.
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My name is Dennis Harper.
I'm a physician and I've been practicing medicine for approximately nine years.
During this period of time I treated my patients with the drugs that I was taught to use and
found that many times my patients were coming back because they were having either side
effects with the drugs or because they were not getting the results that I anticipated
they would.
Consequently, because of this I started using alternative methods to treat my patients.
Now in this particular area there is a whole new class of nutrients called phytonutrients.
Within this class of phytonutrients there is also a specialized class called bioflavonoids.
Paranthocyanidins were originally classified as a bioflavonoid and because of their uniqueness
were then spun off and became a separate class of phytonutrients.
The paranthocyanidins are an extremely powerful antioxidant.
They are approximately 50 times more powerful than vitamin E. They're 20 times more powerful
than vitamin C.
They stay in the body for approximately 72 hours giving sustained antioxidant effects.
We have seen with the use of the paranthocyanidins changes in live blood cell analysis using
dark field microscopy and in as little as 20 to 40 minutes we've seen a change where
before the cells would be stacked on top of each other, something called a Rouleau stacking,
and 20 to 40 minutes after using the phytonutrients, the paranthocyanidins and some enzymes we
saw complete dissolution where they were then completely separate.
This is a live blood cell screen using the dark field microscope.
The portion that we are looking at is prior to taking the oglymeric proanthocyanidins
or more commonly known as OPCs.
We see here small white blood cells trapped in what is known as urethrocyte aggregation
or more commonly known as blood sludge.
The primary cause of this condition is high fat and protein in the blood.
This condition can lead to poor circulation and cardiovascular disease.
This is a uric acid crystal resulting from high concentration of uric acid found in the
blood.
Uric acid crystals can cause joint pain and inflammation.
This can also lead to the onset of arthritis and other degenerative diseases of the bone
and joints.
Uric acid crystals are also the leading cause of gout, a very painful joint condition.
This is a cholesterol crystal identified by lack of color.
The principal cause of this condition is poor assimilation of fats and proteins which in
turn is caused by the body's inability to digest the fats and proteins.
This can be a leading factor in plaque accumulation in the cardiovascular system resulting in
poor circulation and the potential for stroke and heart attack.
The small black lines found here are liver spicules or fibers which form in response
to liver stress and congestion.
This can be caused by toxins such as antibiotics, drugs, alcohol, tobacco and environmental
pollution.
This condition can lead to autoimmune associated diseases such as fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis
and chronic fatigue.
This is hemolysis or dying red blood cells often due to poor nutrients and poor digestion
of food.
This also is due to low levels of antioxidants in the bloodstream resulting in fatigue and
low levels of energy.
Here you can see yeast or fungus.
This is caused by undigested food particles especially in foods that are high in sugar
or white flour.
We can trace infections of all sorts to this condition.
This is a classic poclocytosis or more commonly known as free radical damage.
The leading causes of this condition are environmental toxins in the food, water and air such as
pesticides, food additives, radiation, chemotherapy, preservatives, drugs, chemical fumes and exhaust
from cars to name just a few things contributing to the low levels of antioxidants in the bloodstream
and higher free radical damage resulting in the acceleration of the aging process.
This condition can lead to accelerated aging and early onset of degenerative diseases.
Genetic damage and mutation to the DNA is one of the major concerns with this condition.
This is a live blood cell sample taken after taking the oglymeric proanthocyanidins or
OPCs.
Notice now that instead of the red blood cells being stuck and stacked together, separation
is almost completed.
They now are round and free flowing.
In this condition, they now have the ability to be oxygenated and more mobile, thus enhancing
greatly the circulation to all parts of the body such as the brain, vital organs and providing
more oxygen and nutrients for the muscle tissue which is especially important for athletes
or anyone working out or exercising.
Notice the cell's ability to separate in just a few minutes.
The condition continues to improve with additional time and especially with the continued use
of oglymeric proanthocyanidins.
Amazingly, the white blood cells have the ability to double or triple in size once the
undigested protein in the cell receptors have been resolved, thus allowing the white blood
cells to function properly.
The white blood cells here is at work cleansing the blood.
You can see it resolving a fibrostolic parasitic column.
This is a cholesterol crystal being dissolved and will now be small enough to be filtered
by the kidneys and excreted from the body.
Whereas before they were too large for filtration, thus greatly reducing the potential of plaque
accumulation and advanced cardiovascular disease.
Again, notice the free flowing red blood cells.
Utilizing the dark field microscope, we can now scientifically show the dramatic increase
in the nutritional health of the blood and its ability to function at a much better level
within just a few minutes after taking the oglymeric proanthocyanidins.
You can see how freely the blood cells can flow with the increased oxygen and nutrients.
Especially notice the absence of yeast, liver speakables, hemolysis or dying red blood cells.
We have reduction in bacteria, cholesterol crystals, blood sludge and plaque helping
the body reverse arteriosulosis.
Gone is almost all evidence of free radical damage, thus strengthening the cardiovascular
system and improving blood vessel health and circulation.
Thanks to these new exciting phytochemical supplements such as the family of oglymeric
proanthocyanidins, we can now visually see how these are dramatically changing the way
we can enhance the nutritional health of the blood and therefore our overall health.
Thus helping us to slow, stop or reverse the aging process.
We find dramatic improvement in the condition of the DNA, the building blocks of the entire
body, changes that can take place overnight or with continued use over a prolonged period
of time depending upon the individual.
We now possess the ability to actually grow younger with proper nutritional supplementation
and especially using the oglymeric proanthocyanidins.
So we can tell in very short period of time that the phytonutrients including the proanthocyanidins
are extremely important to a person's well-being.
This particular class of bioflavonoids, the proanthocyanidins are very bioavailable.
It's one of the unique parts of the proanthocyanidins.
They tend to be almost 85 to 95 percent absorbed just by taking them orally.
Whereas with the other bioflavonoids they're extremely difficult to absorb.
Sometimes you only have 5 to 10 percent bioavailability.
Would like to explain now as to the reason why these proanthocyanidins actually work
this well.
They are an extremely powerful antioxidant.
They're 50 times more powerful than vitamin E, they're 20 times more powerful than vitamin
C.
So what is an antioxidant?
Well an antioxidant is something that fights against something called a free radical.
Now you say what is a free radical?
A free radical is an atom that has an unpaired outer electron shell.
Now atoms generally will tend to have at least paired electrons that will circle around their
outer shell.
When one of them is missing it becomes unstable and consequently it actually kind of reaches
out and says I'm going to grab yours.
As it grabs somebody else's electron it then becomes a paired electron but the other one
then of course becomes unpaired.
And so consequently one free radical starts something called a free radical cascade which
means that one free radical taking from another atom will actually can create millions of
free radicals.
Fortunately our bodies are designed to help with the free radical cascade and that's where
the anti-actions are becoming so important.
Where do we get these free radicals?
Well they come from three places.
They come from inside ourselves, from biochemical reactions, they come from the environment
and they also come from free radical cascades which I just mentioned.
Now when I talk about the environment I'd like for you to understand a little bit about
the environment.
We're talking about pesticides, we're talking about herbicides, we're talking about automobile
emissions, we're talking about sunlight, we're talking about a whole host of things that
are out there that are trying to destroy us.
There are other things other than what's being dumped into the environment.
For example when we walk out into the sunlight what do we see?
We have ultraviolet radiation that comes down and beats upon our skin and consequently causes
free radicals to damage the very skin that we're wearing and by so doing you've heard
of skin cancer, certainly those are caused by free radicals and by the ultraviolet radiation
damage.
As it damages those tissues you start having burning.
All of you have experienced sunburns.
That's from the free radicals.
It's very similar to any other type of a fire.
The hotter the heat or the more free radicals that are being released the more damage you're
going to have.
First degree, second degree, third degree burns.
All happen with free radical damage.
The way free radicals damage our cells is each cell has its own little individual markers
on the outside which genetically allow the body to determine that it's part of itself.
So it has these little proteins that kind of stick out on the cell membrane.
The membrane itself is also composed of a lipid bilayer which kind of looks like this
where it likes the water on the outside and it likes the fat on the inside.
And then inside the cell you have a round or a nucleus that has a nuclear membrane as
well as DNA particles on the inside of the nucleus.
The free radicals can damage any one or all of these parts of this particular cell.
It can take the proteins off the surface of the membrane to where the body no longer recognizes
the cell.
It can destroy the lipid bilayer to where it actually glues it shut to where nothing
can then penetrate through the membrane and get into the cell to nourish the cell.
It can open holes in the membrane and allow the cytoplasm inside the cells to leak out
as well as to have bacteria and viruses leak in causing cellular death.
Or it can go in and it can rupture the nuclear membrane, create havoc with the DNA genetic
particles there, consequently creating mutations.
And by so damaging these cells then we see all kinds of things taking place in our bodies.
For example, arthritis.
Down here for example in your knee we have synovial membranes there that have synovial
fluid inside of them.
If those membranes start to becoming injured they will start leaking synovial fluid which
causes compression on that joint.
Consequently you start having more inflammation.
That inflammation in turn brings in more cellular debris trying to fix the damage and creates
more inflammation.
We also see the problems associated with the eye.
I talked about the sunlight.
If you are looking at our eyes the intraocular space of our eyes is filled with fluid.
That particular fluid is loaded with antioxidants.
The reason why it is loaded with antioxidants is because it is being barraged with ultraviolet
radiation all the time.
So consequently with the use of the antioxidants it prevents our vision from deteriorating.
Consequently using the paranthocyanidins or the antioxidants will as far as I am concerned
help prolong any visual disturbance or keep us from having any visual disturbances for
a much longer period of time than we would normally have had.
We have also seen problems associated with cancer.
All of us know what cancer is.
You know somebody that has cancer.
I know somebody that has cancer.
If you don't you will because the cancer rates have gone up very sharply from 1 in 10 up
to 1 in 3 now and very shortly who knows in a few more years you are going to be looking
at 1 in 2.
This all has a very great deal to do with the free radicals and the free radical damage
that takes place and the lack of antioxidants not only in our food but in our environment
as well.
Our hearts are also damaged by free radicals.
How are they damaged?
Well we have blood that goes through our hearts and that blood carries oxygen as well as other
things that produce free radicals.
Those free radicals in turn damage the cells that are on the inside of the arterial wall
creating something called plaque.
That plaque is actually like a little bandaid that tries to cover up the damage and it attracts
other cells and pretty soon you have a little clumping that takes place and the more free
radical damage that takes place the thicker that clump becomes and it starts bringing
cholesterol in there which is also a residue of some of the cells that are damaged.
Now cholesterol is both good and bad.
You have heard of HDL cholesterol.
You have heard of LDL cholesterol.
HDL cholesterol is one of our antioxidant systems.
When HDL levels are oxidized or our HDL cholesterol is oxidized it actually turns into an LDL
which becomes bad cholesterol.
So once again we see oxidating materials, the free radicals creating havoc inside of
our body.
We as human beings are some of the longest living mammals in the world.
Have you ever wondered why?
Well there was one particular paper where they took a look and wanted to find out why.
So they looked at the concentrations of the antioxidants that were present in different
mammals and they found that it directly correlated with the length of their lives.
The more antioxidants they found in a mammal the longer that particular mammal lived.
Now we as human beings had the highest level of antioxidants in our bodies and consequently
we tend to live the longest.
So is it unreasonable to assume that if we are using additional antioxidants like for
paranthocyanidin that we will not increase our longevity?
We should be able to live 120 years from many studies that have been reported.
Not many of us are and the reason because of that is we are filling our bodies with
free radicals and we don't have the proper antioxidants to take care of them.
The paranthocyanidins make very good sense to me to use as an anti-aging property.
Now I'm speaking as my own opinion on this but it makes very, very good sense.
As a matter of fact another physician, a Dr. Denham Harmon in the 1950s proposed his theory
of aging was built upon free radical related diseases and that free radicals caused aging.
Now we are just now starting to see that perhaps that's true.
It's been 40 years in the making, 40 years for us to finally figure out that maybe Denham
Harmon really knew what he was talking about but now we are seeing over 200 papers each
month being released about free radicals and the effects of the antioxidants.
Not only on prolonging life but prolonging and postponing disease and disease states.
I strongly suggest that you start looking at paranthocyanidins as a way of augmenting
your own personal health.
I think it's very important that you start reading and learning more about how to keep
your body healthy because if you depend on physicians to do this I believe you are going
to be sadly disappointed.
We physicians treat disease.
We do not treat wellness.
If you wish to remain healthy start studying for yourself.
Start using these phytonutrients of which paranthocyanidin is one of the most powerful.
Read for yourself.
Use the paranthocyanidin.
It's time to take a look.
It's time to open up your mind and be able to receive additional information concerning
your ability to maintain your own health.
I would hope that at this time that you pay strict attention to these people who have
been trying the paranthocyanidins and listen to the results that they have gotten.
A year ago I went to the doctor for routine pap smear and the doctor's office called
back and I had a condition that was abnormal and it was called dysplasia and the degree
of it was moderate to severe.
If you are not familiar with what dysplasia is, it's an abnormality of the cells, it's
precancerous and it usually is on the cervix.
The doctor sent me to a gynecologist and said, the gynecologist gave me a biopsy and the
biopsy got sent off to a lab and when it came back it confirmed the results moderate to
severe dysplasia.
I had a consultation with the doctor and he said that he recommended that I have an operation
called a conectomy that would remove all these cells plus a rim of normal cells around it
to make sure that he got it all and he stressed that cervical cancer was really deadly and
very aggressive and I didn't want to mess with it and in my case because it was severe
he thought that I should have this particular type of surgery.
I went ahead and had that and went along on my merry way and three months later I had
to go get a follow up pap smear.
So I went for the pap smear and he had some bad news that dysplasia had returned in a
moderate to severe form again.
I was very upset about this.
I had a lot of cancer in the family.
I've also had a problem with my immune system for the last twenty years which made it much
more likely that I was going to have a reoccurrence or problems.
At that point he recommended that I have my cervix and uterus removed and my other doctor
said to do it quickly.
Both of them really emphasized how terrible this was and that I should do it soon.
So I did schedule the operation for six weeks from then and in two weeks my husband and
I ran into an old friend that we hadn't seen in years and he told us about a product, a
supplement called OPC which was about isoflavonoid, all natural and a lot of his friends and family
had taken this supplement and recovered from really devastating diseases.
He talked about somebody that had fibromyalgia, osteoporosis, a stroke and leukemia and hepatitis
OPC and that had varying degrees of improvement and sometimes huge and complete turnarounds.
I just thought it sounded too good to be true but I really trusted this man.
I'd known him for a long time and I didn't know him to be an exaggerator or a liar so
I tried it.
I went and bought the OPC and another supplement and I started taking it.
The operation was getting closer and I was getting calls from the office that I should
order my painkillers, IV painkillers because I was going to be home shortly after the surgery
and I just was not sleeping at night and not feeling good about the whole situation.
So I called the doctor and I told him what I was doing and told him I wanted to give
this, these supplements a chance and asked him how dangerous it would be to wait a month.
He said a month would be okay but don't wait three months.
He wouldn't recommend it.
So I took the OPC for the next four weeks.
So for a total of six weeks I took these supplements.
I went back for the biopsy and I got a call within a week from the doctor and he left
a message.
The other times that he had left a message I never wanted to call him back.
My husband had to prod me to because he would just say this is Dr. So and So and I need
you to call me and it didn't sound good.
But this time he said Gene I've got good news you need to call me.
Oh my heart leapt when he said that.
So I dialed the phone quickly and I asked him and he said when he answered the phone
he said I'm baffled but I'm pleased the dysplasia is gone and you no longer need the surgery.
I was so happy and excited and now I'm going on vacation in two weeks and I'm
going to a family reunion instead of using my vacation strapped to an IV bag.
I can tell you I'm really going to enjoy this family reunion much more than you can imagine
because I'm so grateful that I didn't end up in that other situation.
The other difficulties that I've had with my health and my immune system I see an improvement
and I'm also very encouraged that my immune system will continue to strengthen and that
I feel I've got a hedge against cancer.
When I first had the diagnosis I felt utterly powerless.
I said my cells have gone wacky, I eat pretty good, I sleep at night, what else can I do?
And now I really feel like I've got more tools in my arsenal to keep myself well and to keep
myself going stronger.
Hi I'm Pam Corlett and I'd like to share with you some information about OPCs.
I started on the products myself last fall.
I have had cancer which resulted in five surgeries in a nine month period time.
Shortly after I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
Since starting OPCs I really feel like I have gotten a lot more energy.
I am no longer taking any medication for fibromyalgia.
Even though I still have some symptoms they are much more tolerable.
Because of this and my experience with OPCs it got me to a point where I tried my son
Chris Klein.
My son has ADHD and OCD and right now I'd like to talk to a lot of the parents out there.
If you have a child or know of a friend or even an adult who has ADHD or OCD you know
how it can impact their life.
Even though this is not life threatening it does make a major difference in their life
every day and everybody around them.
My son was having four and five panic attacks a day.
We were living from one homework assignment to the next because of his compulsion to be
perfect because of his hard time and staying focused and doing the work.
He is a very bright, very talented young man who wants desperately to do very well and
has high dreams and aspirations for himself.
But these disorders were getting in the way.
We started him on Ritalin about four years ago.
Two weeks into the Ritalin he started developing personality changes, became very aggravated
and in two weeks became so depressed my son wanted to die.
Obviously we had to stop the medication.
It was hard enough for us to get to a point of giving my son the medication but it became
clear after dealing with like three or four different doctors that he needed some kind
of support.
Well this son is on a search of trying to find a medication that would help Chris and
give him the support that he needed and unfortunately there was not a medication out there that
he could take that didn't have adverse side effects.
By taking the OPCs, the thing to me that is so amazing and I hope a lot of you parents
can identify with, when you have to make a decision about putting your child on medication
there is a lot of fears involved with what the side effects are, how much testing has
been done on children.
Like Ritalin it can stunt the growth, reduce appetite and the other one that I did not
know was depression.
OPCs has no side effects, to see my son have his life back where he can concentrate enough
to get his homework done.
No it's not a cure, he still has ADHD and he still has OCD but they are manageable.
He is a very happy child, he is doing very well.
Hello my name is Chris Klein, I'm 13 years old and I would like to share with you how
OPCs is impacting my life.
In my opinion patients are the real experts of how they feel and what can make them feel
better.
I have been diagnosed with ADHD and OCD which has made my life very stressful.
ADHD is like living in a fast paced kaleidoscope where thoughts, images and sounds are constantly
shifting which makes my life very confusing and stressful.
OCD constantly makes my mind feel like everything that I do has to be perfect which makes it
very difficult for myself to complete tests in a timely fashion and makes me lose a lot
of sleep.
Treat these disorders if you will.
I have been trying a lot of medications including starting off with Ritalin and ending on Lovox.
However I have had side effects to each one of those medications that I have been tried
on.
Since then my mom has asked doctors if it would be okay if I try OPCs to help with my
disorders.
They said yes.
Since then I haven't had any panic attacks, I do my homework in two hours instead of seven
and haven't had to use my inhaler or any other allergy medications that I had to in the past.
Just now I think I have my life back.
Personally I give a big thumbs up to OPCs.
My name is Athena and I'm 12 years old and from when I was 4 to 9 years old I was experiencing
symptoms that doctors could not put a name to.
I was visiting many doctors at many times in many places.
When I was 9 years old I was taking many pain medications and muscle relaxers just to be
able to walk.
I was taking aspirins 24 hours a day and visiting the doctors three or four times a week and
I was lucky if I could complete one day of school a week.
My parents got me into the NIH to see five top specialists for three days.
They diagnosed me with the disease of fibromyalgia.
I had no idea what it was so I asked them and they said that basically I would be experiencing
the pain and I should try to ignore it and they gave me stronger medications which just
made me sick.
I could no longer do anything fun.
I couldn't jump on a trampoline.
I couldn't walk.
I couldn't run.
I couldn't skate or anything like that.
Nine months later we went back to the specialists and they said that I was stable even though
I didn't feel any better.
Three weeks later I started taking OPC and within three weeks I felt better.
I could do sports.
I could run.
I could play outside.
I could jump on a trampoline.
I could skate.
I could do anything and now I've taken the sports of basketball, volleyball, softball
and soccer.
I used to have to wear glasses and now since the OPC has improved my eyesight I don't have
to wear them anymore.
My name is Patty.
I'm 39 years old and I've been an insulin dependent diabetic for 21 years.
About 12 years ago I was diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy which is when there's bleeding
in the back of the eye.
Left untreated it can lead to blindness.
There was an area in the back of my eye that they performed laser surgery on which corrected
the bleeding but unfortunately left me with a minor permanent loss in vision.
About five years ago they discovered another area in the back of my eye that was bleeding.
This time it was very close to the center of my eye and they couldn't perform the laser
surgery on it.
If anything were to go wrong with the laser surgery the risk of me being permanently blinded
was too great for them to be able to take the chance.
So instead the ophthalmologist decided to keep watch on that section of my eye until
the risk of going blind from the retinopathy exceeded the possible risk of going blind
from the laser surgery and then we would perform the laser surgery.
Over the past five years a few other minor areas have popped up with the retinopathy
in that eye and also in my other eye.
About a year ago I also started having problems with my right leg and hip.
I was having numbness and tingling in my leg and hip and went to my doctor and he performed
a series of tests, an MRI, a nerve study, suggested painkillers, physical therapy, exercise
and nothing relieved the symptoms.
The best thing that he could do was to prescribe me painkillers to help alleviate the discomfort
that I was having.
That's a very typical course of treatment for diabetics.
There just isn't much that they can do.
In June I was complaining to a friend of mine that I was having trouble remembering little
things in short term memory and suggested to me to try a product that uses OPCs.
The OPCs are really powerful antioxidants and she suggested that this may help with
my memory problems.
So I figured, well what the heck, I'll give it a shot.
After three days on the product I noticed I woke up one morning and said to my husband,
you know, my leg doesn't hurt anymore and that was really odd because it had been hurting
right along and nothing made it better.
I didn't really believe it was the OPCs so I stopped taking them and within a few days
the numbness and tingling was back and there was actually a lot of pain came with it as
well so I started taking the OPCs again and all the symptoms abated once again.
I'm forever a skeptic.
I still didn't believe it was the OPCs so I stopped taking them and again the pain and
numbness came back.
I started taking them again and it went away to the point that I'm completely convinced
that is what made my symptoms disappear.
In the process of doing the tests for the neuropathy they had also discovered that I
had a diminished reflex in my right knee and I had no reflex in my right foot.
In October I went back to the doctors for a routine physical and the reflex in my knee
had returned to normal and I did have a reflex in my right foot.
It was slightly diminished but it's there which is a lot better than it was and I thought
I wonder if that's from the OPCs.
My doctor looked over the literature and determined that I should continue to take it.
In November I went back to my ophthalmologist who found that he couldn't believe what
he saw.
He said, I don't know what you're doing but whatever you're doing keep doing it.
The retinopathy in my eye, the area that was leaking had stopped leaking.
The fluid that had pooled there which normally takes about a year to be reabsorbed was almost
completely reabsorbed.
This was after being on the product for only six months.
I had also been hesitant to go back to the ophthalmologist because I knew I wasn't
seeing well.
In 12 years every time I went my prescription got stronger and my vision was getting worse
and I didn't want to have to get another pair of glasses.
I was just tired of dealing with the whole thing.
I was right.
I wasn't seeing as well.
When they did the eye test it came back that my prescription was actually too strong.
My vision had improved and is where it was three years ago.
Not only did the OPC help the retinopathy but it's also helped remove the fluid which
has made my vision much better.
My latest development is I have the very beginning of kidney disease which is again another complication
of diabetes.
I was put on a blood pressure medication that the side effect protects the kidneys from
kidney disease.
I have been able to discontinue the blood pressure medication and still maintain the
health of my kidneys by using the OPCs.
My doctor doesn't know what's going on.
He can't really explain it but says to continue taking it.
If you do anything find out what this product can do for you because instead of dying from
diabetes I'm now living with diabetes thanks to the OPCs.
Hello my name is Aaron and I've been taking the OPCs for the past three years of my life
and it's dramatically changed everything that I've done in those three years.
I played water polo for the past eight years at college and in high school and now I play
professionally in Australia.
The OPCs has dramatically changed everything I've done in the water and also out of the
water in academics.
It all started about three years ago before my first two weeks are known as the hardest
two weeks of practice.
We start off with three hours in the water in the morning, three hours in the afternoon,
followed by a two hour dry run, dry run running session and weights.
This is very hard on our bodies.
Our muscles are continually drained and it's hard to recover in between practices.
It just makes it for long days.
When my father came out to me about these oligometric proanthocyanidins also known as
OPCs, he told me a couple things.
First my muscle time would recover.
Second it would make me a better athlete and it also helped my concentration time in the
water and it would make me a healthier person.
At first I was very skeptical but because it was my father I didn't want to disappoint
him and make him mad at me so I decided to make him happy and take the OPCs.
After the first week of practice I noticed some dramatic changes in my performance.
A, I was swimming a lot faster times.
I was my endurance times were a lot longer.
I was recovering in between practices and most importantly my injuries in my shoulders
had seemed to disappear.
As a college athlete we are often scrutinized over performance enhancing drugs and other
supplements that athletes are known to take.
I was also very worried about this but seeing OPCs are a completely natural substance.
I cleared it through my athletic training staff, my coach and had it checked out also
with a physician.
This is a completely natural substance which gave me a lot of comfort as an athlete.
In college it's a lot of hard work of being an athlete and trying to balance school.
There's more to college than just being a dumb jock and I try to exemplify that as much
as I can.
Taking the OPCs has really helped me out in my academics as well as athletics.
Getting up at 5 a.m. having two hours of practice then running a four hour class, another three
hour practice, sometimes weights and then having to go back do a research paper, study
for midterms, finals and then have a job at night to try and pay for it all is very challenging
for a young adult who's very influential in his life.
But the OPCs has really helped me out.
It's helped me to focus in class when I was very mentally and physically tired.
It's helped me focus out of class studying for class and research and more importantly
it's helped me to become where I am today.
My last year I accomplished Dean's List and Student Athlete of the Year as long as All
American Otters in water polo and first team all league.
Over the past three years the OPCs has made me a better person because it's given me
the energy to do the things I want to do in my life.
The things that I've wanted to do was be the best person I can, be the healthiest person
I can and make everyone have energy around me.
As an athlete I pride myself in having lots of energy and being in good shape year round.
And being in good shape year round means having my body perform at the top level and being
able to recover.
This all natural substance isn't performance enhancing.
It helps my body maintain its refreshness and its muscle endurance and it helps my inflammation
and my tendons go down so I don't have problems with tendonitis anymore and I don't have
to sit out games or sit out practices which in the long run makes me a better player.
And again the OPCs has made me a better person, a better player and a better student.
Hi my name is Mario and I started taking OPCs about five years ago.
I started taking them because I was told that it would lower my cholesterol.
Well at last check my cholesterol has been lowered by over 150 points.
This and for that reason only I would stay on OPCs for the rest of my life.
But something else happened that changed my life.
I had hip pain for 20 years and I had been to different chiropractors, doctors and surgeons
and they all told me that I needed a hip replacement.
In 1994 I was told that I needed the hip replacement now.
Not wanting to go through that operation because that would just be the first of them.
There would be many more probable operations right after that.
I decided to try and live with the pain as long as I possibly could and lived on over
the counter painkillers.
After being on the OPCs for about two weeks I woke up one morning pain free.
I didn't believe it was the OPCs so I went off OPCs and the pain came back.
So I went back on OPCs and the pain went away.
Still not believing I went off OPCs again pain came back.
Back on OPCs now and I have been pain free and I'm doing everything I couldn't do before
such as ride my horses, skiing, racquetball, playing baseball with my son.
I thank OPCs for this.
Hi my name is Lori and I'd like to tell you where my life was about two years ago.
I'm in my mid 30s and I had lifetime allergies especially to cats which developed to seasonal
allergies and then to asthma.
I couldn't walk around without my inhaler.
I also have muscular dystrophy.
The type I have is myotonic dystrophy and I also had a lot of back problems.
The two together made basically any kind of movement very difficult if not impossible.
I also have three valves in my heart that are prolapsed and without the exercise because
of my back I was having a lot of irregular heartbeats and a lot of chest pains.
I also had a condition for two years with my lymph nodes.
One day they were just swollen and I had to go through different medications, many biopsies,
even removal of the lymph nodes because they were swollen and the doctors just said it
was nonspecific inflammation and they thought that it was a pre-Hodgkin's condition.
I began taking OPCs because I was hoping for some relief for my back problems.
Within four to five minutes of taking my first dose of OPCs I noticed an immediate surge
of energy and I thought wow this is pretty neat.
Within one week my asthma and allergies were completely gone.
I have not used an inhaler.
I do not own one.
I could even sit with a cat on my lap for two hours without sneezing.
My myotonic dystrophy and my back problems have basically gone away to where I can do
whatever sports I want without taking muscle relaxers or pain medications.
My heart is beating much better now.
I do not have these so much irregularities and my lymph nodes, I am proud to say, within
two to three weeks of taking the OPCs my lymph nodes returned to normal size which is something
that the doctors were not able to do for two years.
Hi my name is Lori.
In 1986 I began to have problems with my legs.
The right one would just buckle out from under me.
To make a long story short I ended up having seven surgeries on my right knee.
Then in 1999 I lost the use of my legs and was confined to a wheelchair.
I had an MRI and a cerebral angiogram and this confirmed that I had multiple sclerosis.
The doctors put me on steroids which got me out of the wheelchair but I put on 63 pounds
as the result of these drugs.
I would wake up at night with terrible back pain.
My headaches were terrible and my balance was out of whack.
I was put on antidepressants and it helped to control these two conditions.
In going up and down the stairs I needed my husband to assist me.
The fatigue was overwhelming and I needed a one to two hour nap every day.
My memory was not great.
My skin was covered in psoriasis from the drugs that I was on.
I was walking but hanging on to whatever I could to keep from falling.
I tried many different things to help my condition but each time I tried something it would help
for a little while and then would stop working.
Then in August of last year came the relapse that I dreaded so much.
After a visit with the doctor, his advice to go home and do absolutely nothing, not
even knitting, I knew that this time I would stay in my wheelchair rather than do steroids
again.
It was at this point in my life that I was introduced to the Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins.
I cannot tell you how much this affected my life.
It was as if I had never relapsed.
The energy boost that I get from OPC is great.
The back pain has gone.
The numbness in my bladder has gone which was causing some major problems.
My skin has cleared up.
When I used to get up from bed, I had to wiggle my feet until I could get the needles and
pins out so I could walk.
I don't have to do that anymore.
I used to have severe muscle spasms and that's gone.
I no longer need the drugs to get me by.
My memory is getting better every day.
I no longer have to have my husband's support or help to push me up the stairs.
Now I go up and down all by myself and one day I even ran up and down the stairs without
holding on to the rail.
There are so many other things that have happened to my life since taking the OPCs but time
does not allow me to tell you everything.
I just wanted to say that OPC has given me my life back.
I look after my house, drive again, entertain my friends more.
My life is my own.
I give thanks to God for blessing the OPC to my body's use.
My name is Dr. Darrell Fortson.
I'm a family practice physician in the Northwest Indiana area.
I've been in practice about eight years now.
I was exposed to OPC through another physician colleague of mine who lives and works in the
Washington D.C. area.
He was telling me about this outstanding nutrient that does a lot of things for people with
arthritis, asthma, people with multiple sclerosis, with chronic allergies.
Now I'm traditionally trained as a physician.
I'm a board certified family practice physician so this was kind of a new foray for me.
I usually use traditional, almost always use traditional medications for my patients and
traditional treatments.
So this wasn't anything that I was particularly used to doing or trying.
And I gave it a try with several patients.
And one of the first ones was a lady who was in her mid-50s who was on disability and crippled
by severe rheumatoid arthritis.
She had rheumatoid changes in her hand that were quite disabling in her knees.
She had degenerative arthritis of her neck, of her cervical spine and lumbar spine.
Her neck and back were injured from her arthritis.
She also had carpal tunnel syndrome where the nerve that comes through the wrist into
the hand was pinched.
And she had a lot of problems gripping things and what have you.
Plus she had wrist drop where she couldn't keep her wrists up because of some of the
problems that she had coming out of her neck.
So she was really debilitated.
And she came at one point, we were increasing her pain medications, she was taking steroids.
At one point she was taking injections, she had had surgery and she just wasn't getting
any better.
And she had come to ask if I would order a mobile device for her like a scooter, a motor
scooter for her to get around in her house and for her to do her shopping and what have
you.
At the time I didn't have much else to offer her so I decided that I would try the OPC.
I didn't have anything to lose.
About two or three weeks after however she comes to the office, I'm in the office seeing
patients in a room seeing patients and my nurse calls me out and demands that I come
out immediately to see what's going on.
So I come out and I think some patient passed out in my office come to find out here this
lady is doing toe touches and back bends.
She didn't have her cane, she had left it at home, didn't really even know where it
was because she wasn't using it, had lost 12 pounds and had the unmitigated gall to
even start running.
But I know that she was moving and doing things better than I had ever seen her in all the
time that I had been in practice with her as her physician.
And it was about that time that I really started to believe in the power of OPCs, patients
with fibromyalgia, for patients with severe asthma and I continuously saw improvements
in all of them.
One of them was an asthmatic patient who had a cough that just wouldn't go away.
Steroid inhalers didn't work, oral steroids didn't work, antihistamines didn't work,
nasal steroids didn't work.
Worked her up for a tumor in the bronchus or in the airway somewhere.
Everything would help until I started her on OPC.
In fact, I had sent her to Mayo Clinic and they really didn't have much to offer her
until she came back and tried the OPCs and she hasn't had any problems since.
I had another patient who went through a similar rigmarole and didn't get better until they
started the OPC.
The third person, I finally got wise and just started them before they spent thousands and
thousands of dollars.
I continue to see patients with rheumatoid arthritis being improved, multiple sclerosis.
People note that they have more energy.
One of the most curious things is that when you look into antioxidants like vitamin C,
vitamin E, you see in the literature that they're used to treat things like macular
degeneration which is a chronic, irreversible retinal disorder where the vision deteriorates
in aging.
People with diabetic retinopathy or diabetic eyes are also improved somewhat with antioxidants
but I've seen dramatic, dramatic results with the OPCs.
A patient just came into my office last week who is going blind from diabetes.
He's blind in one eye and his vision was severely, severely diminished in the other.
In fact, he had had surgery on both eyes and it's not yet clear whether he's going to
be able to retain his vision but during the time that he was taking his OPCs, his vision
dramatically improved.
Again, I can't say enough about OPCs.
I think for the skeptic, they need to look at the literature and see that it's legitimate,
to see that it's well tolerated.
I've had good results with my patients and I take it myself in fact and I would recommend
it to anyone as both a supplement to help them improve some of the medical conditions
that they might have or to help to maintain their health because antioxidants are always
a good idea for anyone who's concerned about their health.
These stories that you have just witnessed are not unusual stories at all.
In fact, they're very representative of the people that have been using the paranthocyanidins
in their lives.
It's time to take a look.
It's time to open up your mind and be able to receive additional information concerning
your ability to maintain your own health.
When he answered the phone, he said, I'm baffled but I'm pleased the dysplasia is gone and
you no longer need the surgery.
Since starting OPCs, I really feel like I have gotten a lot more energy.
I am no longer taking any medication for fibromyalgia.
Since now, I think I have my life back.
Personally, I give a big thumbs up to OPCs.
I felt better.
I could do sports.
I could run.
I could play outside.
I could jump on a trampoline.
I could skate.
I could do anything because instead of dying from diabetes, I'm now living with diabetes
thanks to the OPCs.
And again, the OPCs has made me a better person, a better player, and a better student.
After being on the OPCs for about two weeks, I woke up one morning pain free.
I just wanted to say that OPC has given me my life back.
Come to find out, here this lady is doing toe touches and back bends.
She didn't have her cane.
She left it at home.