How Amazing Is Garlic? Let Me Count the Ways
Garlic Versus the Developed World's #1 and #2 Killers
The research on Greenmedinfo.com shows garlic has value in 167
health conditions or disease symptoms, but the greatest density of research
indicates garlic's role in preventing and/or treating Cardiovascular Disease and Cancers,
the two primary causes of death within high-income countries.[27]
This is an interesting finding. The drug industry has been
fantasizing about a so-called 'polypill' for quite some time, an idea involving
mixing various patented medicines together for a condition like heart disease
(e.g. blood pressure, cholesterol, blood thinner), but to no avail. Patented
chemicals have far too many side effects, so when you mix them together, you
only compound their multitudinous chemical toxicities. Natural substances, on
the other hand, and especially those which play a role in culinary traditions
as "spices," appear to have the opposite karma. Namely, they have far
more 'side benefits' than 'side effects.'
Garlic's cardioprotective effects include:
2. Beneficially decreases
white adipose tissue, increases white adipose tissue around heart muscle.[31]
5. Vasodilator[37]
6. Reduces blood pressure[38]
7. Antioxidant[39]
9. Vascular Inflammation[42]
Here is a quick review of the cancers that
garlic has been found to kill:
1. Acute Lymphoblastic
Leukemia[43]
2. Acute Myeloid Leukemia[44]
3. Basal Cell Carcinoma[45]
5. Cervical Cancer[48]
6. Colon Cancer[49]
9. Leukemia: Chronic
Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)[54]
12. Melanoma[61
13. Osteosarcoma[62]
14. Pancreatic Cancer[63]
Garlic, like so many other complex foods, contains a wide range of
phytocompounds that articulate at least 150 distinct physiological responses in
the mammalian body (see our 157 pharmacological actions list on the Garlic
Research page).
How can this be so?
One explanation is that all foods contain not only physical
building blocks, e.g. carbs, proteins, lipids, and are not only a source of
energy (caloric content), but contain gene and epigene regulatory information.
There are 'packets' of energy and information contained within the
conformational state of the biomolecules found within these plant tissues. Our
co-evolution with the plant kingdom for the past half a billion years has
resulted in the very genetic/molecular fabric of our body depending on certain
key compounds from plants in our diet, delivered in natural form, not
irradiated, overly-cooked, petrochemically-farmed. Garlic's ability to fit like
a key, into many different types of locks (an impossible feat for monochemical
'magic bullets'), reflects an likely infinitely complex intelligence in the
relationship between plant and animal species. Which speaks to how important
foods are not simply as 'medicine,' but that from which our bodily health grows
organically, and without which disease is a natural consequence.