Garlic

Is Garlic the Secret to Longevity?🧬

Or was Dracula 🧛‍♂️ right to avoid it?

The health benefits of Garlic have been known for a long time unless you were a vampire of course and generally tried to avoid it.

Garlic contains organosulfur compounds which give cloves their characteristic odour and health benefits and can help to prevent the development of cancer, cardiovascular, neurological, and liver diseases as well as allergies and arthritis.

For example, epidemiological studies have shown that consuming Garlic more than 3 times per week (might affect your social life!!! 🙊) but can significantly lower the risk of different types of cancer, such as gastric, stomach and colon.

Foods rich in organosulfur compounds increase histone acetylation by inhibiting histone deacetylases, metabolites which remove acetylation from DNA (Nian et al. 2009).

Histone acetylation triggers tumour suppressing genes which may decrease your chance of getting cancer. Eating garlic and other alliums have been shown to decrease the risk of cancer (Fleischauer et al. 2001, El-Bayoumy et al. 2006, Milner 2006, Myzak and Dashwood 2006, Liu et al. 2007, Millen et al. 2007,Pittler and Ernst 2007, Sener et al. 2007, Nagini 2008 ).

Muhdo Health research indicates one of the reasons why Garlic is so fantastic in keeping you fit and healthy is due to the allyl sulfides in increasing the activity of glutathione S-transferase (GST) and modulating the effects of the (CYP1A1, 1A2 and 1B1) genes.

While most meta-analyses have used Garlic in the form of Garlic powder supplements, current evidence suggests aged Garlic extract (AGE) to be a more reliable treatment option.

Aged Garlic extract is regarded as safe and more tolerable than Garlic powder, and superior to raw or cooked Garlic in relation to its antihypertensive properties.