Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Oleocanthal: The Science Behind Olive Oil's Power

20 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman explains oleocanthal, a compound in extra virgin olive oil that shows anti-inflammatory effects in lab studies. Research is only about 14 years old, so findings are promising but not yet proven in humans.

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Now, this is new science, okay? There's no 30 year studies on oleocanthal found in extra virgin olive oil. They're 14 year old, okay? So they're quite young. And we're trying to learn more and more about them, which is why it's not so definitive. But they're getting more definitive, they're getting much more information, they're finding much more efficacy when you have high content of these polyphenols, oleocanthal in particular, when the oleocanthal is so high, you're seeing much more efficacy in inflammatory inflammation reduction at a molecular level in lab tested levels.

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