FACTS ABOUT GARLIC

Garlic is one of the most valuable and versatile foods on the planet. Today garlic is a widely recognized health enhancing supplement. Garlic promotes the well-being of the heart and immune systems with antioxidant properties and helps maintain healthy blood circulation. One of garlic's most potent health benefits includes the ability to enhance the body's immune cell activity.

 

 

The active component in garlic is the sulfur compound called allicin. Allicin is the chemical produced when garlic is chopped, chewed, or bruised. Allicin is quite powerful as an antibiotic and a potent agent that helps the body to inhibit the ability of germs to grow and reproduce. In fact, it's said that 1 milligram of allicin has a potency of 15 standard units of  penicillin.

 

Garlic is known to stimulate T-lymphocyte and macrophage action, promote interleukin-1 levels, and support natural killer cells. Strong activity of these key cells promotes healthy immune system function, and strengthens the body's defenses.

 

Garlic has germanium in it. Germanium is an anti-cancer agent, and garlic has more of it than any other herb. In lab tests, mice fed garlic showed no cancer development, whereas mice that weren't fed garlic showed at least some. In fact, garlic has been shown to retard tumor growth in human subjects in some parts of the world.

 

Another benefit of garlic is it helps regulate the body's blood pressure. So whether you have problems with low or high blood pressure, garlic can help equalize it.

 

Garlic helps strengthen your body's defenses against allergies;helps loosen plaque from the artery walls; helps regulate your blood sugar levels; and is the best choice for killing and expelling parasites such as pin worms from the human body.

 

In addition to all these health benefits, garlic is packed with vitamins and nutrients. Some of these include protein, potassium, Vitamins A,B,B2 and C, Calcium,Zink and many others.

Garlic helps platelet stickiness or aggregation to help reduce blood coagulation, and promote heart health.

 

The antioxidant properties of garlic help scavenge harmful free radicals, which can damage LDL (bad) cholesterol in the blood stream.

 

Garlic also promotes increased bile production to help reduce levels of fat in the liver.

 

The positive effect of garlic on your circulatory system is extremely well documented and it has been proved to lower blood pressure , decrease platelet aggregation ,lower serum triglycerides and LDL-cholesterol ( the bad type) levels ,increase serum HDL-cholesterol (the good type) and fibrinolysis (the process through which the body breaks up blood clots.) .plus it stimulates the production of nitric oxide in the lining of blood vessel walls, a substance that helps them to relax.   As a result of these beneficial actions garlic helps to prevent  arteriosclerosis and thereby reduces the risk of heart attack or stroke.   Two or three cloves a day have cut the risk of subsequent heart attacks in half in heart patients.