Health Benefits With Garlic
Whether you cook with garlic or take daily supplements, garlic is now proven to help everything from cholesterol to blood pressure.
With all the talk over the past years of health, supplements, cholesterol, blood pressure and herbal benefits, it’s hard to know what’s healthy, what’s not and what doesn’t even matter. Recently there has been an uprise in the amount of people who are now researching garlic and its benefits towards better health. Over 5,000 years ago, people already knew about the health benefits of garlic, using it internally and even externally, to help prevent the growth of bacteria in wounds. Today, many people eat more foods that contain garlic or take garlic supplements to improve their health. Garlic has been proven to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, along with helping to provide protection against strokes and heart disease. Published studies have shown that after a mere four weeks of adequate garlic intake, a twelve percent reduction in cholesterol is possible. Garlic is also thought to reduce the possibility of getting blood clots and to fight off infections in the body. The common cold can be warded off, or the risk of catching it can be lowered by fifty percent, simply by taking one garlic supplement tablet daily. Garlic does not prevent colds or flu. It’s possible to catch a cold while taking garlic supplements, but usually the symptoms are less severe and the cold disappears more rapidly than in those who are not taking garlic. Garlic also contains vitamins and important minerals like magnesium, potassium, iron, calcium and zinc.