by

Dr. Steven LammMedical Director, NYU Center for Men’s

Health

Market America Convention – February 2014

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Unique &Versatile

Multiple products & Multiple benefits

General Health, Joint Care, Beauty, Kids and a lot more

What makes OPC-3so unique ?

Back to basics

Proprietary Isotonic Delivery System

Antioxidant potency in consumer’s blood after single intake

OPC-3™

Source: Cesarone et al., Phytother Res 2009

Back to basics

Proprietary Isotonic Delivery System

Isotonix OPC-3®works faster and more potently

What makes OPC-3so versatile ?

…to create Pycnogenol®

It takes 50 years…

…as well as…

40 years research

340 scientific publications

135 clinical trials

7,000 people tested

…to stand out of the crowd

New Study on Fitness

Evaluation with the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT)Push-upsSit-ups2 mile run

Training for 8 weeks with the APFT 5X/week

New Study on Fitness

Vinciguerra et al., J. Sport Medicine and Physical Fitness , In press

baseline 4 weeks

1:40:24

1:29:44

1:41:02

1:36:08

100 minutes triathlon

Pycnogenolcontrols

New Study on Fitness

Lowers muscle pain

Increases sport endurance

Improves performance

Controls oxidative stress

New Study on Common Cold

"Scratchy" sore throat

Sneezing

Rhinorrhea ("runny nose„)

Nasal obstruction

Malaise

Cough

Temperature

Effects on Common Cold Symptoms

Belcaro, G., et al. Otorinolaringologia 2013 September; 63, 151-161 (2013).

day 1 day 2 day 3 day 4

Controls 7.2 9.4 8.2 7.9

Pycnogenol 6.8 5.9 5.6 4.9

Pycnogenol + vit C 7.5 5.1 4.3 3.3

Pycnogenol + Zn 7.6 5.4 4.1 3.7

Pycnogenol + vit C + Zn 7.5 4.5 4 3.1

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

8.5

9.5

Symptom scores

Less days with common cold

Controls Pycnogenol Pycnogenol + vit C

Pycnogenol + Zn

Pycnogenol + vit C + Zn

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Days with disease

Belcaro, G., et al. Otorinolaringologia 2013 September; 63, 151-161 (2013).

New Study on Endometriosis

New Study on Endometriosis

Endometriosis :

common type of

chronic inflammatory

disease with

involvement of nuclear

transcription factor‑κB

(NF-KB)

New Study on Endometriosis

when using oral contraceptives alone or in association with Pycnogenol®

Before 3 months0.0

2.0

4.0

6.0

8.0

10.0

Pain score

EE/gestodene alone EE/gestodene + PycnogenolEE/drospirenone alone EE/drospirenone + Pycnogenol

Maia H Jr, et al. Int J Womens Health. 2013 Dec 21;6:35-9. doi: 10.2147/IJWH.S55210.

The very best of both worlds