I started taking 5ml of Barlean's Olive Leaf Extract 6x a day May 3, 2014 to treat a chronic HHV-6/EBV infection. I felt great for a week, all symptoms were gone, including the brain fog that hasn't returned once since. Then I crashed, hard. The crash seems to have been a Herxheimer Reaction kicking in, according to the research I've seen this told me it was working by forcing the virus out of my tissues and preventing it from replicating. When I felt good for a day I either consolidated or upped the dose. After three months of that I was at 20 ml 2x a day. I was very ill for that three months. Every symptom I had ever had cycled non-stop. Then I woke up one day and felt GOOD. At this point I added 2 90mg oleuropein pills from a local herbalist before bed. I stuck with that dose for a few weeks with very few symptoms, but was nauseous after each dose of Barlean’s (this started when I upped the dose the last time). I cut out the Barlean's and took 2 pills 3x a day, and was still nauseous after each dose. So it wasn't the Barlean's that was causing the nausea. I think I was just taking more than I needed. Yesterday I lowered my dose to 1 pill 2x a day and 2 pills at night before bed. I still have some symptoms, but they are greatly reduced in frequency and duration. I think I would be much better if I wasn't stressing myself out with full time graduate school, writing my thesis in a second program, and starting a part time job (all from home, when I try to leave the house I get panic attacks, PTSD). Keep in mind that the pharmaceutical antivirals take years to work too, according to one of the studies I linked to, an average of 2.8 years. This isn't a quick process.
This whole site is fantastic. http://www.about-olive-leaf-extract.com/olive-leaf-products.html
The Herxheimer Reaction. If your body doesn’t do this, OLE won’t work for you. https://chronicillnessrecovery.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=161
about anti-viral herxing: http://www.masscfids.org/research/r...mprovement-in-a-subset-of-cfscfidsme-patients
http://www.jacobteitelbaum.com/heal...ons-treating_hidden_viral_infections_cfs.html
http://www.masscfids.org/research/r...mprovement-in-a-subset-of-cfscfidsme-patients
http://www.treatmentcenterforcfs.com/professional_publications/index.html
http://hhv-6foundation.org
http://www.drkaslow.com/html/immune_restoration.html
http://www.thepaleomom.com/2013/01/...ole-of-th1-and-th2-in-autoimmune-disease.html
http://chronicsorethroat.wordpress.com/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
http://drhoffman.com/article/olive-leaf-extract-2/
This is the only study I’ve found that says OLE can cause liver damage. It takes a LOT to do it though, far less risk than the pharmaceutical anti-virals. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21609751
I haven’t gotten through all of these yet, but what I saw was really good. Scroll down to the english videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/WetenschapvMEcvsVer/videos?view=0&sort=da&flow=grid
This whole site is fantastic. http://www.about-olive-leaf-extract.com/olive-leaf-products.html
The Herxheimer Reaction. If your body doesn’t do this, OLE won’t work for you. https://chronicillnessrecovery.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=161
about anti-viral herxing: http://www.masscfids.org/research/r...mprovement-in-a-subset-of-cfscfidsme-patients
http://www.jacobteitelbaum.com/heal...ons-treating_hidden_viral_infections_cfs.html
http://www.masscfids.org/research/r...mprovement-in-a-subset-of-cfscfidsme-patients
http://www.treatmentcenterforcfs.com/professional_publications/index.html
http://hhv-6foundation.org
http://www.drkaslow.com/html/immune_restoration.html
http://www.thepaleomom.com/2013/01/...ole-of-th1-and-th2-in-autoimmune-disease.html
http://chronicsorethroat.wordpress.com/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
http://drhoffman.com/article/olive-leaf-extract-2/
This is the only study I’ve found that says OLE can cause liver damage. It takes a LOT to do it though, far less risk than the pharmaceutical anti-virals. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21609751
I haven’t gotten through all of these yet, but what I saw was really good. Scroll down to the english videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/WetenschapvMEcvsVer/videos?view=0&sort=da&flow=grid