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 | | Additional benefits: Helping to preserve and reinforce the collagen in the skin, grape seed extract is often used in the treatment of connective tissue disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis. |
 | | For allergy sufferers, grape seed extract offers relief; it inhibits the release of symptom-causing compounds such as histamine, which, in turn, helps control a variety of allergic reactions, from hives to hay fever. |
 | | Grape seed also blocks the release of prostaglandins, chemicals involved in allergic reactions and in pain and inflammation, particularly that of the menstrual disorder called endometriosis. |
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