Why garlic is good for the heart...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7045557.stm

I am always a bit suspect of zionist organastions like the BBC when they have news stories like this.
I firmly believe in Garlic as medicine but i have doubts about the long term effects of daily consumption , if nothing else it may well wipe out the good bacteria in our bodies along with the bad just like antibiotics aside from the issues of getting past the blood brain barrier stuff. Would it suit TPTB to have those of us who look to alternative remedies on low immunity due to having little internal bacterial flora and have a more artificial protection from a herb who's side effects may cause brain fog too? They seem to like things that pass the blood brain barrier which is why fluorine is used in so many drugs as things bond to it and it drives stuff deeper into brain tissue or helps drugs generally get into body tissues more effectively.
I honestly can't say with any authority but its food for thought.
I still think cayenne pepper and hawthorne are the number 1 heart and circulation remedies and may be a lot safer to take daily.

Well, I ate my words because it works! If done properly there is only slight scarring, which is often the same result  following the more expensive methods. For a total cost of less than a few £'s I have so far saved myself around a grand's worth of expensive treatment at one of the money grabbing High Street skin clinics that have recently sprung up in abundance accross the UK.

There is the unfortunate side effect of smelling dodgy for a few days while you apply the treatment, so don't bother trying to pull during this time

I can be a test case!  I eat it as a food and take as a supplement.  I take a lot per day....2000mg I think.  Maybe it was something else I did, but my health has been better after upping how much garlic I take.

Hmm, I have also been eating a lot of garlic as of late in cooked meals, though haven't been taking it as a supplement. 

Soloflecks, you mention your health has been better, how about your meditative abilities, do you feel more/less/the same connected, when you're on garlic?  I think that was the point of BD's original post.

I think it may be a ripe time for me to test... ie. stop eating it for a while, and see how it affects mental/spiritual states.  If I notice anything I'll do a follow up post.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic
Garlic is used for thousandths years!
A substance being bad for cat&dogs do not mean it is the same for humans.

Hummm...
As the difference between poison and remedy is the dosage, I bet small use
as spice is not bad.

Good advice Lyra. I drink soy because pastuerised milk sucks even more. What do you consume for calcium? Nuts and veggies I suppose.

I do the dairy thing still, still consume cheese, butter, sour cream, half and half and stuff.  Not like, in mass amounts, but I do eat it here and there.  I don't drink milk though, think that's gross.  Not that dairy is actually a good source of calcium anyway, so I've read.  But I'm sure there's some in there.    And yeah, in the veggies too, that's another source.  Oh......and I take a calcium supplement.  Almost forgot.  Country Life's Calcium, Magnesium and Vitamin D capsules.  On the label it says it's calcium in the form of calcium hydroxypatite, citrate, alpha-ketoglutarate, aspartate and lysinate.   ?!  Whatever all that means.  haha  Who knows, it could be bad for me but oh well.....

This is a really good point about garlic's affects on blood pressure and how that will make people feel sick, as well as possible negative press against garlic and nutritional supplements in general for taking away the power from big pharma.......

Depends on how you define health food.  I think eating simply is the way to go.  Lots of fresh organic veggies from small farms - I make these mega salads with homemade (organic ) dressing.   Clean free range meat that's hormone/antibiotic free.  Organic fruits.  Brown rice.  Things like that.  Healthy doesn't have to equate to being yucky tasting and inedible.  I wasn't talking about like, soy or anything. haha  I wouldn't eat that stuff, and yet a lot of so-called healthy types snarf up soy milk and tofu and all this weirdo stuff that may actually be bad for you, little do they know. 

Keep it simple, is the key, and sometimes simple is really tasty.....

Good advice Lyra. I drink soy because pastuerised milk sucks even more. What do you consume for calcium? Nuts and veggies I suppose.

I like garlic. I might experiment later if it's good for me or not. But they're minor details. Get your basic food regime right - fruits and veggies and then be picky about whether garlic is good for you or not.

Count Dracula also recommends no garlic

Part of my problem is, I don't have any health food stores close by. And I wouldn't know what to do with most health food to make it edible. I'm inclined to think I would rather die young than eat most of it.

Depends on how you define health food.  I think eating simply is the way to go.  Lots of fresh organic veggies from small farms - I make these mega salads with homemade (organic ) dressing.   Clean free range meat that's hormone/antibiotic free.  Organic fruits.  Brown rice.  Things like that.  Healthy doesn't have to equate to being yucky tasting and inedible.  I wasn't talking about like, soy or anything. haha  I wouldn't eat that stuff, and yet a lot of so-called healthy types snarf up soy milk and tofu and all this weirdo stuff that may actually be bad for you, little do they know. 

Keep it simple, is the key, and sometimes simple is really tasty.....

And as you said lyra, it is a conspiracy. I am now to the point where I wonder if aspartame and sucralose aren't being universally blended in with either HFCS, or even cane sugar, because the minute these chemicals become cheaper than cane sugar will be like a small food apocalypse. It may not even have to do with price (or price-fixing) at all, but merely to achieve their ends rendering us all toxified beyond recovery.
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Part of my problem is, I don't have any health food stores close by. And I wouldn't know what to do with most health food to make it edible. I'm inclined to think I would rather die young than eat most of it.

The issue seems to be that there is no middle ground anymore. The food you buy is either extremely bad for you, or better than any human can stand.

Does that make sense...

When food was food, neither incredibly good for you- or (processed) bad, we had none of these ailments, they were nearly unheard of. When I was young, antacid was about the only thing people used.

Now look at the market for drugs...

You can't counter symptoms from eating processed crap by re-toxifying your system with more chemicals that shouldn't be consumed. People just get fed the idea that this is the way things are and always were. Not so.

So in viewing it full spectrum, I keep trying to come back to  "center"  that is no longer there. It is maddening for me, definetely one of my major struggles.

I recently confirmed I cannot digest beef ( at least ground beef) without having some serious issues- I won't get into details, but beef is absolutely not 'what's for dinner'. That actually makes things easier, it's just plain off the menu.

The list keeps shrinking, soon it'll be applesauce all day every day lol.

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So yes, I can say with some assurance it was the garlic, I never inquired what they use- I assume it's just garlic powder, but it is quite possible that MSG is present in that.

Could very well be that.  Myself, I've never had issues with garlic.  I buy organic cloves of garlic, or natural garlic powder from Whole Foods, which doesn't have any MSG in there.  My body has actually had cravings for garlic, so to me that says that there must be good properties about it.  Also it's a good anti-viral/anti-bacterial agent.  Civil war troops supposedly used to mash it into their feet wounds to stop disease and gangrene.  (wearing cold wet socks and boots all day long would cause issues.)  But, that doesn't mean that it wouldn't also have other negative effects, many "good" foods and herbs and natural supplements have their pros and cons.   And maybe some people respond differently to it than others, we're all different after all.  In my spirulina thread Sedna Sphere mentioned having volatile reactions to spirulina, while for me it energizes me and makes me feel great.  Go figure!  But that's why people have their own individualized allergic reactions I guess.   We all have our personal chemical make ups. 

Oh yes, a pet peeve of mine.  The way they're working aspartame into things now.  It's ludicrous.  Recently we were waiting in line at a checkstand and I started reading the chewing gum labels.  One of them had sugar, corn syrup, AND aspartame!!!  I was like, OKAY, am I MISSING something here???  Why in the frickity frack do you need aspartame when you already have sugar AND corn syrup in there?

You don't.  But it's literally a "conspiracy" to poison the population.  Slip their toxic chemicals into foods, use the foods and candies as their personal toxic waste dump avenue.

Yeah, I agree.

I have noticed the effect on other
occasions, but this time I paid close attention, sure enough, I'm all duuuuuuuh and feeling like I wanted to take something for a headache, but it wasn't really a headache, more like a brain-ache. As Doc said in his initial post, it has been found to get the left/right brainwaves out of sync and that is precisely what it felt like. It's about 4-5 hours later now, and I am feeling mostly back to normal, and I didn't take anything.

So yes, I can say with some assurance it was the garlic, I never inquired what they use- I assume it's just garlic powder, but it is quite possible that MSG is present in that. My basis for that belief is the fact they are now beginning to sneak in aspartame with corn syrup in some pre-mixed beverages, usually the cheap gallon jugs of fruit punch, the ones that contain 0% juice and get most of their flavor from the citric acid.  I bought some one nasty hot day earlier in the summer, and I did detect it before I read the label. I was like sonofa-b, now they're putting aspartame in stuff NOT labeled diet, or sugar free.

I really don't know what is safe, eating is not what is used to be. If I thought I could survive, I wouldn't eat at all.
It's that bad......                                    J