Supplements / Conditional
Pycnogenol (French Maritime Pine Bark)
Best for: Healthy aging
Dose & timing
- Dose
- 100–200 mg daily.
- Timing
- Morning with food.
- Review
- Reassess after 8 to 12 weeks.
- Forms
- pycnogenol
What this supplement is for
- Vascular endpoints (endothelial function, BP) have decent trial signal.
- Small benefits across several inflammatory and cognitive endpoints.
Cautions
- Not appropriate if you take a blood thinner.
What to look for in a product
- Preferred third-party verification: Third-party tested (COA).
- Common contamination risks: Mislabeling / identity, Ingredient swapping.
- Identity: Pycnogenol is the patented, standardized French maritime pine bark extract used in the trials.
Where to get it
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Your experience
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We frame these as personal experience, not medical claims. Self-reported subjective outcomes are influenced by placebo, regression to the mean, and parallel lifestyle changes. We’ll never present ratings as equivalent to RCT evidence.
Evidence sources
- Pycnogenol systematic review (reviewed 2026-04-30)
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