Maritime Pine Bark Extract is a very powerful anti-oxidant, 50 times more potent than Vitamin C or E.
Maritime Pine Bark Extract is the GENERIC name for the very well known product Pycnogenol ®.

The Maritime Pine Bark Extract from Omega Alpha Pharmaceuticals contains 85% proanthocyamidins, the same amount of active ingredients as in 
Pycnogenol ®.
It is highly beneficial and recommended to:

• Protect the body from damage by free radicals.
• Increase vital levels in the cells.
• Strengthen the walls of the blood vessels (Capillaries)
• Help prevent the destruction of collagen.
• Help the maintenance of the tendons, ligaments and skin elasticity.
• Help prevent the synthesis + release of components that are responsible for allergies and inflammation.

One of the earliest recorded use of pine bark comes to us from the diary of the explorer Jacques Cartier. After being trapped in the ice, Cartier and his crew began showing symptoms of scurvy.
Fortunately for them a native American told them to treat their symptoms with a tea, made from the bark and needles of the pine tree. Following his advise helped them to survive.
Four hundred years later Professor Jacques Masquelier produced an extract from pine bark and called the active ingredient "Pycnogenols", now known as proanthocyanidins. The name  "Pycnogenol" was then trademarked and refers to the extract of Maritime Pine Bark.

The greatest benefit Maritime Pine Bark Extract offers is its anti-oxidant activity.