Anyone heard of Pycnogenol?

[jd]

I've been reading about this, Pycnogenol is extracted from Pine Trees in France and is supposed to contain bioflavanoids that have very powerful antioxidant and anti inflammatory properties.

http://www.pycnogenol.com/html/index.html

If you go into the research section on that site, I guess someone did a study of it relating to the auto-immune component of Lupis, pretty interesting.

I wonder if there would be any relevance to this for CPPS/IC?

Here's some people from Cal-Berkeley discussing it, this is 5+ years old.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/rele ... 5_98a.html

another article

http://www.nutritionfocus.com/nutrition ... genol2.htm

[james-d]

Well - I have been using Grape Seed Extract as part of my protocol for a while - and it is very much like Pycnogenol (both are OPCs).

I find it as valuable as quercitan.

Any others have luck with anything like this?