Garlic and The Pursuit of Health

Garlic has been a mainstay of Southern European cooking for centuries, but much of the world has an appreciation for the medicinal benefits of garlic. Millions of mothers know that fresh cut garlic cloves produce healing results.

Egyptian slaves building the pyramids were provided rations of garlic, not only to improve the quality of their daily rations, but also to keep them free of disease. According to a new study from the National Cancer Institute, garlic and similar vegetables may be the reason Chinese men have so little prostate cancer, and the latest research developments indicate garlic's primary active ingredient, (allicin) may become a major player on the health scene.

Fresh-crushed garlic cloves are far more powerful, and beneficial, than any commercial garlic product tested. This is proven by the consistent failure of garlic supplements in clinical and university studies.

The reason this is true is because famous brands of commercial garlic products like Kwai, Kyolic, Garlique, Pure Gar, Garlimax and others, promoted by famous TV anchors and celebrities, really contain little or no allicin. In truth, they only provide "Allicin potential". They rely on your body to be able to generate allicin once you have swallowed the tablet or capsule. It is possible that a small amount of allicin can be produced provided the environment in the gastric tract is perfect, and even that could take several hours and lead to an unwanted garlic odor. Even so, not one of these commercial products contain enough allicin to be medicinally effective.

On the other hand, fresh-crushed garlic releases an enzyme called allinase with allian to produce allicin, the primary active ingredient in garlic.

New AlliMax® is already pure allicin, and you don't have to wait or guess at the results.

For the first time, garlic's active component has been captured, stabilized, and through a patented process, can be delivered directly to where your body needs it. This sophisticated refinement process takes the finest raw garlic bulbs and formulates allicin liquid which is carefully spray-dried to produce pure allicin powder. Now you can receive all the wonderful benefits of garlic without the negative side effects of odor and taste.

200 mg of pure allicin (the amount contained in one, 2-capsule serving of Total Immune Booster) contains the equivalent benefits of 30-50 fresh garlic bulbs.

Years of research conducted at The Garlic Centre of Battle, East Sussex, United Kingdom, the world's leading garlic research center, have proven the pharmacological activities of allicin in many areas, including:

• Anticoagulation - thins the blood

• Antihypertensive - reduces blood pressure

• Antimicrobial - kills microscopic organisms

• Antibiotic - kills poisonous bacteria

• Antiparasitic - kills parasites

• Antimycotic - kills fungal infections

• Antiviral - kills viruses

• Anti-tumor - reduces or prevents malignant tumors

• Antioxidant - scavenges and removes dangerous free radicals

• Anti-aging - delays aging

• Anti-platelet - reduces blood platelet "clumping"

• Detoxifies heavy metals - removes lead, mercury and other toxic material

• Fibrinolysis - reduces blood fibrinogen

• Humoral immunity - keeps blood circulation healthy

• Hypolipidaemic - reduced high blood cholesterol

• Immune modulator - repairs, brings balance to the immune system

For example, allicin is thought to be the key component involved in the process of vasodilation of the small capillaries and alveoli in the lungs, thus improving the circulation and breathing capacity. As such, it is beneficial to those with allergies, asthma and hay fever.

Many types of bacteria hate allicin - especially those that infest the throat, ears, chest and stomach. It can also kill E-coli; the antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Staphylococus aureus; and the Helicobacter pylori bacteria, the cause of most stomach ulcers.

John Hopkins Medical School reports the most common cause of sinusitis is a fungal infection. Allicin is very effective with many fungi, including Aspergillus, Candida, Coccidioides, Cryptotoccocci, Histoplasma and Trichophyton.

Medical researchers in America and Oxford, England have shown it to reduce cholesterol levels by 12-40%, when larger than maintenance amounts of allicin are consumed for a period of 6 weeks. Significant reduction of blood pressure was also experienced by the test subjects.

Recently, researchers in Pennsylvania have shown that by injecting an allicin compound, tumors can be reduced by half, and by adding Sallylcysteine, it can stop cancer-causing agents from binding to human breast cells.

Longevity studies conducted by Dr. Narain at the Public Health Department in Delhi, India, revealed that 98% of all "centurions" studied consumed at least one clove of garlic every day.

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