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| Life, Garlic, and the Pursuit of Healthiness
By Gailon Totheroh
CBN News Health & Science Reporter
CBN News at CBN.com
December 11, 2002 <<<<<<< ------- ***
Life, Garlic, and the Pursuit of Healthiness
Garlic can reduce cholesterol as much as 12 percent. For
a person with cholesterol at 230, that could mean a
decrease to a near normal level of 202
CBN.com - Garlic and similar vegetables may be the reason
Chinese men have so little prostate cancer, according to
a new study from the National Cancer Institute. Yet there
are many contradictory reports on whether garlic
supplements have health benefits.
Certainly history is full of garlic's medicinal use. And
the latest research developments indicate garlic's active
ingredient may become a major player on the health scene.
While garlic is a modern mainstay of Southern European
cooking, it was also the cause of the world's first labor
dispute, a fight between the pyramid workers and the
pharaoh's pocketbook.
Peter Josling, B.Sc., from The Garlic Centre, said, "They
were spending the equivalent of about $2 million a year.
So they decided that they would stop the ration of daily
garlic and the slaves apparently downed tools and refused
to work on until their garlic ration was restored."
Why did the slaves cling closely to the cloves of garlic?
Josling said, "One reason was to improve the quality of
the food that they were given on a daily basis, but the
other reason was to keep them free from disease."
Josling is a British chemist, known in the UK as the
"garlic guru" and in Norway as the "garlic king." Also
big on garlic was the late Varro Tyler, Purdue
University's expert on medicinal herbs.
Tyler once said, "It has been shown effective in reducing
blood lipids — that is cholesterol and triglycerides as
well."
That means better heart health, and a hedge against the
nation's number one disease.
Garlic can reduce cholesterol as much as 12 percent. For
a person with cholesterol at 230, that could mean a
decrease to a near normal level of 202. And triglycerides
can drop as much as 15 percent. That’s as good as drugs
without the side effects.
But garlic's advantage depends on the presence of the
potent substance allicin, and allicin is only produced
with the aid of a special enzyme in garlic. "The enzyme
known as allinase that releases that active principle is
inactivated by the stomach acid," Tyler said.
So without allinase, no allicin is produced and no heart
benefits arise. Cooking also destroys allinase, so one
solution is, eat raw garlic. That avoids the stomach acid
problem, but not the social problem of volatile vapors
invading the personal space of others.
Supplement manufacturers attack the problems by coating
garlic pills. That helps keep the allinase away from
stomach acid and the garlic odor away from your breath.
But the problem there is you still might not get much
allicin. So what are the reasons? First, the necessary
allinase is often lost in manufacturing, and second, it
still may not make it past the stomach.
So Josling developed a patented process to avoid the
allinase problem by producing pure allicin and putting it
in a capsule. The product, Allimax, is the first on the
market, and Josling readily acknowledges his financial
interest.
He said, "All of the profit that we've made over the last
five years on anything we've done — and that's all sorts
of things — has been plowed back into proving that this
material is as active as we say it is."
He does not deny most garlic products have some benefit,
but says straight allicin is the wave of the future. In
fact, many companies are working on manufacturing or
extracting pure allicin, and no wonder.
Allicin fights all major types of infections:
* Bacterial infections such as streptococcus and E. Coli
* Viral infections such as the ones causing colds and
herpes
* Fungal ones such as vaginal yeast infections
* And parasitic ones such as intestinal giardia
Before antibiotics, missionaries used to treat dysentery
and intestinal worms with crushed garlic.
In World War I, medics applied garlic preparations to
battle wounds for healing. In that tradition, Josling
carried out a recent study on allicin vs. the common cold
in Britain.
Among 146 volunteers, half took his allicin supplement
and half took a placebo. Over three months of winter, the
allicin group got 24 colds, the placebo half contracted
65 infections. The study also found the allicin group
made speedier recoveries and were less likely to be re-
infected after an initial cold.
Josling says this could boost businesses by reducing sick
days in winter by 60 percent. "If there's only three of
you in a business and one goes down with a cold, then the
other two have got to work much harder 'til you get back.
So, yeah there are lots of people that could benefit," he
said.
Though it has yet to be firmly established through
testing on people, allicin shows promise in fighting
cancer, AIDS, stomach ulcers, diabetic complications and
even anthrax. Josling said, "There will be a whole family
of allicin-based products. We're just at the top of the
pyramid, if you like."
At least as far back as the pharaohs, garlic has been in
demand as a boon to health, now with the latest research
and development, allicin, the active ingredient, is
proving beneficial to health as well, especially as an
antibiotic.
Unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics, allicin does not
produce antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Those bacteria
eventually make antibiotics useless, and that is what
happened to penicillin.
In fact, Josling's research indicates that combining
allicin with old antibiotics may resurrect their use and
make them effective once again.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/021...sp?option=print
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Interesting research and findings.
Posted on 12/11/2002 12:58:13 PM PST by Geist Krieger
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