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OPC History
The healing properties of OPCs were first taken advantage of as early as the 1500s, but it wasn't until the late 1940s that OPCs were isolated as the antioxidant in natural organic compounds that prove beneficial to long-term health.
In 1947, while attempting to determine if peanut skins were toxic, Dr. Jack Masquelier, a student at the University of Bordeaux, France noticed an unusual colorless substance in peanut skins, which proved to OPC and he determined that it possessed potential for strengthening blood vessels.
Through his research, Dr. Masquelier determined that the blood vessel walls of laboratory animals would double in strength, only hours after eating peanuts. By 1951 Dr. Masquelier was successfully extracting OPCs from pine bark and grape seed, which proved to be rich sources of the substance. By 1970, Dr. Masquelier obtained one of several patents for the bioflavonoids that are used in most OPC Antioxidants.
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