Many of my patients travel quite a bit for work. Here\u2019s a tip: pycnogenol (pronounced \u201cpik-noj-en-all\u201d) is a powerful antioxidant extracted from the bark of pine trees and sold in health food stores either under that name or as PCO Extract.<\/p>\n
A newly discovered side benefit from pycnogenol is that it can prevent the foot and leg swelling (edema) that occurs during long airplane flights.<\/p>\n
Using a relatively small dose–100 mg before the flight, during the flight, and the following day–the 81 subjects in the study using pycnogenol experienced significantly less edema than the 88 subjects given a placebo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many of my patients travel quite a bit for work. Here\u2019s a tip: pycnogenol (pronounced \u201cpik-noj-en-all\u201d) is a powerful antioxidant extracted from the bark of pine trees and sold in health food stores either under that name or as PCO Extract. A newly discovered side benefit from pycnogenol is that it can prevent the foot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2087,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,43,216],"tags":[250,251],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-knowledge-base","category-nutrition-nutritional-supplements-vitamins-herbal-remedies","category-p","tag-antioxidant","tag-pycnogenol"],"yoast_head":"\r\n