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Gingko biloba extract is marketed as a 'smart' and 'anti-aging' herbal supplement that claims to enhance brain function and provide various health benefits, including mood enhancement and improved circulation. The document discusses the multitude of claims surrounding Gingko biloba and aims to clarify the scientific research supporting these assertions. It highlights the popularity of the supplement in modern American culture focused on self-improvement and wellness.

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Gingko biloba extract is marketed as a 'smart' and 'anti-aging' herbal supplement that claims to enhance brain function and provide various health benefits, including mood enhancement and improved circulation. The document discusses the multitude of claims surrounding Gingko biloba and aims to clarify the scientific research supporting these assertions. It highlights the popularity of the supplement in modern American culture focused on self-improvement and wellness.

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We, as consumers, are always trying to find new products to buy in which to improve

ourselves. In modern-day American culture, improving oneself has become synonymous


with feeling younger and healthier. Gingko biloba extract is one of the popular herbal
supplements being marketed to mainstream consumers as a "smart" and "anti-aging" drug
(http://www.stevemorow.com/food.htm) which will work to help to increase their overall
brain functioning in the normal population, as well as, those who suffer from mental
impairment due to aging. Gingko biloba extract has also been labeled an anti-aging drug
due to its antioxidant properties, its supposed free radical scavenger properties, as well as
its reported increases in people’s overall mental functioning. You see advertisements for
it on television, as well as, the Internet making a large number of different kinds of
claims of Gingko biloba’s benefits. The claimed benefits range from increasing overall
brain functioning in normal people to people with mental impairment, to being a mood
enhancer (http://www.televar.com/alpha/biloba.html), to helping with such slight
conditions as cough and asthma, to helping increase circulation in patients suffering from
painful vascular diseases to actually having "slimming" applications
(http://www.mmpinc.com/WHATS.HTM). If all these claims are true, then Gingko
biloba extract sounds like a "mulit-cure"drug for the entire population. This paper will
attempt to reduce the confusion associated with the large number of claimed benefits of
taking Gingko biloba by explaining what the research literature has to back up these
claims. I had a hard time myself keeping track of all the reported claims. At this time,
Gingko bil...

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...esearch, 4(2), 89-93.

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H. (1986). Treatment of cerebral aging disorders with Gingko biloba extract. A
longitudinal multicenter double-blind drug vs. placebo study. Presse Medicale, 15(31)
Sep. 25, 1583-7.

Vettorello, G., Cerreta, G., Derwish, A., Cataldi, A., Schettino, A., Occhionorelli, S.,
Donini, I. (1996). Contribution of a combination of aplha and beta benzopyrones,
flavonoids, and natural terpenes in the treatment of lymphedema of the lower limbs at the
2nd stage of the surgical classification. Minerva Cardioangiologica, 44(9), 447-55.

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