Research
on garlic indicates that it may provide an ideal low-cost and safe alternative
to drugs and vaccines in reducing the three most common causes of death in the
world.
In a world mesmerized by the false promises of
pharmaceutical industry marketing copy, as well as inundated with aggressively
marketed dietary supplements, many of which are manufactured by the same
companies making a killing off patented chemicals (Bayer owns One A Day, Pfizer
owns Centrum), it is reassuring to know that the
kitchen pantry will never fail us...
Inexpensive,
time-tested, safe and delicious, many spices are attaining
recognition for being, quite literally, 'life saving,' which is likely one reason
why, in ancient times, many were worth their weight in gold.
This time around, the health benefits of ancient
'folk remedies' like garlic are being confirmed by straight-laced men and women
in lab coats. Which, when it comes to the conventional medical establishment,
blighted as it is by the epistemological disease known as myopia, is considered
the only valid way to ascertain the truth. Never mind the countless millions of
people who, since the beginning of time, have used a different standard of proof: if it works and it is safe, then its true.
We all know that garlic is not shy to make its
presence known. The smallest culinary dose is enough to suffuse the entire body
with its aroma. Garlic also permeates the research literature: the biomedical
database known as MEDLINE, provided by the National Library of Medicine,
contains 4245 study abstracts on garlic, a number of which we have indexed and organized for
your use on our site:Health
Benefits of Garlic.
A cursory perusal of the literature there
indicates that garlic has a significant role to play in preventing or treating
well over 150 health conditions, ranging from cancer to diabetes, infection to
plaque buildup in the arteries, DNA damage to mercury poisoning.
In fact, a strong argument can be made (pun
intended) that expanding the availability of garlic around the world as both a
food and a medicine could prevent millions of deaths annually. According to
World Health Organization statistics, the populations of poorer countries die
manly from causes directly connected to communicable infectious diseases, which incidentally are not caused by a lack of vaccines, rather,
primarily through under-nutrition and malnourishment, lack of sanitation and
hygiene, as well as the adverse physiological consequences of the depression
and stress associated with poverty. The greater use and availability of
garlic might provide a perfect alternative to global vaccine initiatives, the
use of which are driven less by compelling scientific research, and more by
political and economic forces. Garlic is easier to acquire and distribute, and
can often be grown by the affected persons or communities affected, making it
essentially free.
Garlic Versus #1
Cause of Death for the Poorest Countries
As far as the research goes, garlic has
immensely powerful anti-infective properties, experimentally confirmed to kill
the following:
This is an impressive smattering of research,
but it is likely only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to garlic's ability
to fight infection. Remember, a lack of scientific proof does imply a
lack of efficacy. Given that conventional antibiotics are not only failing, but
driving bacteria and viruses into greater lethality, we can't wait around for
the multi-billion dollar clinical trial-based drug approval process to turn its
attention to a non-patentable natural substance. Such a profit-oriented
approach would be highly unethical.
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 treatingCardiovascular 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:
Here is a quick review of
the cancers that garlic has been found to kill:
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.
Source: GreenMedInfo
