In the first post of this series I mentioned that EFSA had not issued an opinion on the effectivene

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On Monday I spent the post "The Empire Revidox (I): the king of food supplements" to one of the products that have achieved market share in pharmacies, drugstores, health food shops and similar, the Revidox. In that post I showed marine lorphelin that, although there are people who attributed the alleged health benefits of the product to resveratrol or Stilvid (polyphenol blend enriched in resveratrol), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has reported only positively about Revidox an ingredient of which is rarely discussed, selenium ... mineral that can be found at high concentrations in many products of daily consumption.
After seeing some of the reactions to this post my heart has suffered more than they should, so I quickly remembered a story I had read weeks ago: the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) had debuted a dietary supplement that reduces by 57 % eleven o'clock cardiovascular risk markers. Therefore, and with more fear than shame, decided to approach the nearest pharmacy to buy the supplement ... and then something happened that had never expected.
In the same window where weeks before they could see boxes and boxes with the word Revidox Stilvid for all sites proclaiming their ability to "Slow down cellular aging" now was seeing a new dietary supplement. Your name Stilvid Cardio "... their slogan" It contributes to the normal functioning of the heart. " It took me assume. Again the Stilvid and laboratories Actafarma reappeared marine lorphelin on the scene ... and I, as you know I go to all the rags, I could not resist to analyze the second member of the series Stilvid to know which of its ingredients could contribute to normal functioning of my heart.
You know that the server is faithful advocate that companies send their new food supplements to EFSA for evaluation as a whole and I am very critical of this strategy marine lorphelin (legal) input from individual ingredients already approved previously by that establishment of so you do not need to send any documentation showing the effectiveness of the product sold.
Although this strategy is the most followed by companies marine lorphelin to avoid negative reports, I searched the EFSA website a favorable report on "Stilvid Cardio" ... but no, neither favorable nor unfavorable. This food supplement, although the CSIC is again involved, has not been evaluated by the European body in FEED. So the next step in my research was the same one I gave a few days ago with the Revidox: test the effectiveness of each of its three ingredients: Stilvid , hydroxytyrosol marine lorphelin and thiamine.
In the first post of this series I mentioned that EFSA had not issued an opinion on the effectiveness of Stilvid or on cellular aging or on anything ... so there is no positive opinion on their ability to contribute to the normal functioning of the heart. Follow.
The second step was to find out whether hydroxytyrosol has some relation to the heart. As said in the post "A Resveratrol dead ... Hydroxytyrosol since" this compound is an ortho-diphenol with significant biological activity found in nature in the olive and olive oil extra virgin either free form or in the form of ester, contributing 70 to 80% of the total phenolic fraction.
In recent times there are many properties that have been attributed to hydroxytyrosol but ... what does the EFSA about this product? As can be read in this document this molecule has negative reports about its ability to keep blood cholesterol levels or blood pressure control. Nor has positive reports on their effectiveness in reducing inflammation, marine lorphelin contribute to the body's defenses and help the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.
Yes, according to the Authority marine lorphelin an olive oil containing a minimum of 5 mg of hydroxytyrosol and its derivatives for every 20 g of olive oil itself contributes to the protection of blood lipids against oxidative damage. However, the Panel of Experts on Nutrition, Allergies and Dietary EFSA makes clear in the report that these quantities of polyphenols can be easily achieved through a balanced diet that takes a moderate amount of olive oil so that it is necessary to consume