Dr Jack Masquelier published his doctorate thesis in July 1948, and filed a patent in the same year for the industrial method of producing the first botanical product based on OPCs.
During the 1980s these complex, but well characterised phytonutrients, were introduced to the natural products market. Today, Masquelier’s OPCs are sold around the world as dietary supplements.
The key early finding of Dr Masquelier was that OPCs strengthen and protect blood vessels and vascular function, so essential for the function of every organ in the body. In 1985, Dr Masquelier was able to further explain the intense and instant positive effects that OPCs have on the human body when he discovered that OPCs neutralizes free radicals, the common cause of seemingly unrelated degenerative conditions and early onset of age-associated changes in the body.
He was buried on Saturday, February 28, 2009.