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Originally Posted by gladaki
Thought of starting thread regarding super foods. First on my list is raw garlic. Garlic is a super food. If you eat 4 crushed cloves every day your immune system will be much stronger. It's a nature penicillin. I can go on on about its benefits. But odour after having it is a problem. study showed that drinking milk with raw garlic kills the smell to some extent. Any other suggestions for it ?.
I recently overheard someone at an restaurant asking for no dressing on their salad because they were about to meet some people and didn't want to offend the person. Do you find it offensive ?
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The active molecule relating to these effects of garlic is allicin which has many demonstrated beneficial in vitro effects that have more difficulty being translated in vivo. For example, ethanol (alcohol found in drinks), bleach and fire have a very high antibacterial killing rate. Ingesting them does not continue that beneficial effect. There are some promising small studies that I've come across, but nothing big enough for me to get behind.
As an aside, I would like to point out that penicillin is in fact "nature's penicillin"