{"id":12637,"date":"2016-01-18T17:09:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T07:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2024-07-03T07:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:26:13","slug":"pine-bark-extract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=12637","title":{"rendered":"Pine Bark Extract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PineBarkExtract.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12638\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PineBarkExtract.jpg\" alt=\"Pine Bark Extract\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The thought sometimes crosses my mind, if ever so fleetingly, that being as open as I am with the ingredients in my bars and powders is a two-edged sword. Sure, it give you a very transparent view, but it also lets every manufacturer on the planet of ingredients I use think that I am a prospective customer. It&#8217;s only fleetingly because sometimes I find things worthy of investigating. For instance this just in on the value of the Pine Bark Extract I use in my top bar and powders:<br \/>\nProduct name: Pink Bark Extract<br \/>\nPlant Origin: Pinus pinaster<br \/>\nAppearance: Reddish-brown fine powder<br \/>\nActive Ingredients: Proanthocyanidins<br \/>\nFunction:<br \/>\n-Enhance bone density and strength<br \/>\n-Accelerate healing of injured skin<br \/>\n-Against HIV by inhibiting virus expression and replication<br \/>\n-Interfere with cancer cell growth and proliferation, as well as induce apoptosis<br \/>\n-Inhibiting oral sugar metabolism and retard growth of certain bacteria<br \/>\n-Treating heart diseases such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thought sometimes crosses my mind, if ever so fleetingly, that being as open as I am with the ingredients in my bars and powders is a two-edged sword. Sure, it give you a very transparent view, but it also lets every manufacturer on the planet of ingredients I use think that I am a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=12637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pine Bark Extract&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53180,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions\/53180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}