{"id":496,"date":"2009-06-15T09:36:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:28:02","slug":"pine-bark-extract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/pine-bark-extract\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine Bark Extract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An extract from French maritime pine bark containing proanthocyanidins (also known as &#8220;procyanidin oligomers&#8221; or PCOs). Pine bark extract is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mskcc.org\/cancer-care\/herb\/pine-bark-extract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">potent antioxidant<\/a> and has been shown to enhance <a class=\"plink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/nitric-oxide-intro.html\" target=\"_blank\">nitric oxide (NO)<\/a> production and vasodilation in <a class=\"plink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19145776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">animal<\/a> and <a class=\"plink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18037769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">human<\/a> experiments.\u00a0\u00a0It also appears to be an effective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17067979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">treatment for chronic venous insufficiency<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11351356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diabetic retinopathy<\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16330178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anti-inflammatory<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/care.diabetesjournals.org\/content\/27\/3\/839.1.long\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">glucose lowering<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18567279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analgesic<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12418064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fertility-enhancing<\/a> effects have also been observed in trials with human subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extract from French maritime pine bark containing proanthocyanidins (also known as &#8220;procyanidin oligomers&#8221; or PCOs). Pine bark extract is a potent antioxidant and has been shown to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[123,767,795,796],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}