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| Most positive garlic studies used 3,600 to 5,400 micrograms (meg) of allicin a day. To get that amount from a supplement, you might need to take anywhere from 600 milligrams (mg) to over a gram a day, depending on the allicin yield of the product.
• Enteric coating may help because more allicin will be produced in your gut.
If all this sounds too complicated, remember fresh garlic is always an option. One 4-gram clove gives you 4,000 to 12,000 meg of allicin - which is plenty.
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| The key is the amount of allicin, the ingredient that gives garlic its powers. A company called ConsumerLab recently tested 14 garlic products. Here are some of its findings.
• Claims like "allicin-rich" are not necessarily helpful. Some products have less - and some much more - than what they claim
• Some products list the amount of "alliin" instead. Your body converts this to allicin, but you only get about 10 to 50 percent of it.
• Most positive garlic studies used 3,600 to 5,400 micrograms (meg) of allicin a day. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Look specifically for products with high allicin and the stabilized form of allicin. Garlic is diverse in its uses for vaginitis because it is both antibacterial and antifungal.49'50 I recommend garlic vaginal suppositories for both Candida (yeast) vaginitis and bacterial vaginosis. A clove peeled carefully so as not to nick the garlic can be inserted into the vagina for 6 to 8 hours. The garlic can be threaded like a necklace so that it can be easily removed like a tampon. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| To get that amount from a supplement, you might need to take anywhere from 600 milligrams (mg) to over a gram a day, depending on the allicin yield of the product.
• Enteric coating may help because more allicin will be produced in your gut.
If all this sounds too complicated, remember fresh garlic is always an option. One 4-gram clove gives you 4,000 to 12,000 meg of allicin - which is plenty.
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Marshall Editions
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 Vij Garlic: Fresh cloves of garlic are most effective in treating yeast infections,
^-v f—r However, a garlic tincture, oil, or capsule with at least 10 mg of the \l \f phytochemical allicin can also be used. Crush the clove to activate the i V allicin, rub it on the affected areas on the mouth, and then swallow. Avoid using garlic in large amounts or when taking blood-thinning medications.
Thyme: This is a potent antifungal, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory herb that also has antioxidant properties. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 There are many products on the market that contain high amounts of allicin. In my opinion, this is a "natural cure" that they don't want you to know about. Why? As with most natural cures, this natural cure is better than virtually any drugs or surgery. In my opinion, you should have some allicin in your home at all times. At the first sign of a cold or flu, or any pain or inflammation, start taking some allicin, it should knock it out. For more information go to www.affinitylifestyles.com.
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If you are not concerned about cancer you should be. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Look specifically for products with high allicin and the stabilized form of allicin. Garlic is diverse in its uses for vaginitis because it is both antibacterial and antifungal.49'50 I recommend garlic vaginal suppositories for both Candida (yeast) vaginitis and bacterial vaginosis. A clove peeled carefully so as not to nick the garlic can be inserted into the vagina for 6 to 8 hours. The garlic can be threaded like a necklace so that it can be easily removed like a tampon. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 Even though many scientists have postulated that allicin is responsible for the medicinal properties of garlic, its very high chemical instability raises some doubt as to the efficiency of its absorption into the body and its activity in cells. As we mentioned earlier, it is now well known that allicin is quickly converted into a number of compounds, including ajoene, diallyI sulfide (DAS), diallyl disulfide (DADS), and a host of others; these compounds possess very interesting biological activity of their own. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Many herbs have also been shown to have antimicrobial and immunostimulating effects. allicin extracts from garlic may hold the most promise for inhibiting bacterial infections. Goldenseal and Oregon grape root also have the ability to inhibit the overgrowth of numerous organisms, although this does not include bacterial vaginosis or chlamydia. Curcumin is one of the best herbs to reduce inflammation. The end result is a strengthened immune system. |
| Many herbs have also been shown to have antimicrobial and immunostimulating effects. allicin extracts from garlic may hold the most promise for inhibiting bacterial infections. Goldenseal and Oregon grape root also have the ability to inhibit the overgrowth of numerous organisms, although this does not include BV and CT. The most commonly used herb for immune support is echinacea. |
| Daily Supplementation
Dandelion leaf capsules: 2 capsules daily Garlic: 1 capsule containing 4,000-5,000 meg allicin, twice per day Coenzyme Q10: 100 mg per day Potassium: 99 mg-2.5 g per day Herbal tincture:
Motherwort: 2 oz
Passionflower: 2 oz
Rauwolfia (available through health-care practitioner—not to exceed .3 mg of reserpine per day)
Hawthorne: 2 oz
Dose: 1 tsp twice daily
• "Data from studies such as the WHI and the Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study (HERS) should be extrapolated only with caution to women younger than 50 years of age who initiate HT. |
| Garlic
1 fresh raw dove of garlic per day or Garlic pill providing a minimum of 4,000 meg allicin daily
Ginger (Zingiber Officinale). The same ginger that is used in cooking and ginger ale has been shown to inhibit platelet aggregation (blood platelets sticking together),308 lower cholesterol,309-312 inhibit atherosclerosis,313 and decrease blood pressure.314 Ginger stimulates the conversion of cholesterol to bile acids and increases bile secretion, thereby lowering cholesterol by promoting its excretion and impairing its absorption. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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| When the clove is crushed, chopped, or chewed, the cell walls of the bulb break, releasing the enzyme alliinase, which enters into contact with the alliin and converts it rapidly into allicin. allicin is the real culprit: a very strong-smelling molecule, it is directly responsible for the strong odour released by the bulb you have just crushed. It is an abundantly occurring molecule (up to 5 mg per gram of garlic), but an unstable one; its breakdown into several more or less complex sulfur compounds is almost instantaneous (Figure 23). |
| The simplest way of knowing exactly how much allicin you are ingesting is by eating fresh garlic.
Very similar reactions occur when an onion is chopped. The difference in odour is due essentially to the presence of slightly different molecules in the onion. Chopping an onion will not release allicin and its related compounds, but another molecule very irritating to the eyes. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Enteric coating may help because more allicin will be produced in your gut.
If all this sounds too complicated, remember fresh garlic is always an option. One 4-gram clove gives you 4,000 to 12,000 meg of allicin - which is plenty.
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Bill Sardi
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 But the use of garlic pills comes into question for cancer prevention or treatment because most don't release much allicin, its major anti-cancer ingredient. However, there are other anti-cancer molecules in garlic and there are ways that cancer patients can enhance garlic's properties.
As early as 1949 it was demonstrated that garlic has anti-cancer properties. [Preventive Medicine 19: 346-61, 1990] Yet garlic is not employed in prevention or treatment regimens. There may be good reasons why.
Garlic has tremendous potential to prevent and treat cancer. |
| Among these are allicin from garlic, cur-cumin from turmeric, indole-3 carbinol from broccoli, green tea, soy phytoestrogens, flaxseed lignans, red grape/wine resveratrol, ellagic acid from pomegranate, oleuropein from olive trees and quercetin from red apples and onions.
It is literally impossible to mention every potential herbal anti-cancer remedy. There are some 250,000 species of flowering plants that could serve to provide anti-cancer molecules. There are an abundance of laboratory dish studies of herbal ingredients that have been shown to inhibit the growth of cancer. |
| Planta Medica 67:13-8, 2001] A new type of alkaline-buffered garlic pill (Garli-Eze®, Nutra Products) which counteracts stomach acidity has now been shown to reliably produce allicin, equivalent to a fresh-crushed clove of garlic.
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Curcumin is found in turmeric, a common kitchen spice. Quercetin is commonly found in onions. |
| American Journal Gastroenterology 100: 2100-15, 2005] However, cancer doctors can't fathom the use of non-prescription antibiotics that do not induce antibiotic resistance, such as allicin from garlic and carvacrol from oregano. The use of acid-forming bacteria supplements (acidophilus), garlic preparations, or resveratrol, are comparable to the use of antibiotics to kill off H. pylori. [Molecular Cell Biochemistry 243: 29-35, 2003]
Folic acid supplementation may serve to prevent pre-cancer-ous changes in the digestive tract. |
| Small molecules like allicin from garlic, resveratrol from grapes, quercetin from onions, hy-droxytyrosol from olives, influence so many genes they are being heralded as the drugs of the future.
Many people falsely believe that to concede that alternative cancer therapies are ineffective gives tacit credence to often despised toxic conventional treatments. Advocates of alternative cancer therapies are going to have to let go of their favorite remedies in favor of the new generation of anticancer molecules that are being revealed in scientific studies almost on a daily basis. |
| Di-allyl sulfide, a breakdown product of allicin, decreases P-glycoprotein activity back to normal in a laboratory study. This garlic component could be coupled with anti-cancer drugs to inhibit drug resistance. [Carcinogenesis 25:941-49, 2004]
Telomeres, garlic and cancer
Telomeres, the "end caps" of chromosomes Image credit: Robert Moyzis, University of California, Irvine, CA;
U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Program, http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Anti-Candida Supplements
Garlic, a well-known folk remedy, is now formulated as an odorless extract. allicin, the active ingredient in garlic, has been found to be more potent than many other antifungal agents; a typical recommended dose is 4 mg daily (equal to about one clove of fresh garlic). As an alternative to garlic extract, you can also take either liquid garlic (available at health food stores) or fresh garlic cloves.
Caprylic acid, a naturally occurring fatty acid found in coconut oil, has been shown to be an effective antifungal agent. In one study, patients taking 3. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Phytochemical s in Garlic include the most potent anti-clotting compound Ajoene, an oxide of Trithia-dodecatriene derived from allicin, shown to inhibit blood platelet aggregation (monitor iftaking anticoagulants), vascular clotting as well as aspirin, and is twice as toxic to malignant cells as allicin, and others; significant because it contains S-S and S-H compounds typical of our body Enzymes and hormones which regulate body function and response to nutrients and drugs. The list goes on to include Diallyl-Polysulfide, Allyl-Methyl-Trisulfide, Cycloallin, andDithiins. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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| When the clove is crushed, chopped, or chewed, the cell walls of the bulb break, releasing the enzyme alliinase, which enters into contact with the alliin and converts it rapidly into allicin. allicin is the real culprit: a very strong-smelling molecule, it is directly responsible for the strong odour released by the bulb you have just crushed. It is an abundantly occurring molecule (up to 5 mg per gram of garlic), but an unstable one; its breakdown into several more or less complex sulfur compounds is almost instantaneous (Figure 23). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Even more impressive, a third group, given allicin from the beginning of the study, gained very little weight despite eating the exact same bad diet. Even though it's a rat study, that's pretty impressive, don't you think? (And no, the take-home message from that isn't to add garlic to your fast-food diet!) Meanwhile, another recent study found that diabetic rats fed garlic oil had increased insulin sensitivity. Garlic may well turn out to be a useful addition to the weight control toolbox. |
James F. Balch, M.D.
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 A Controversy Regarding Allicin
A controversy rages in the health industry regarding allicin. allicin, found in raw garlic, is harsh, oxidative, and very unstable, and is a transient compound that rapidly decomposes to other compounds. It might be added that the credibility that garlic has enjoyed is in large degree due to the result of well over one hundred scientific studies that have been conducted on aged garlic extract and its constituents, not on allicin. The constituents that are unique to aged garlic extract include S-allymercaptocysteine and others. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 If you don't like the taste or the fact that coworkers shrink away when they pass you in the hall, you can also take garlic in pill form (called allicin) at 400 milligrams a day (though the odor may still emerge through your sweat glands).
ţ Olive oil. The "extra virgin" kind contains lots of healthy phytonutrients as well as monounsaturated fats, which help raise your good HDL cholesterol. Aim for 25 percent of your diet to come from healthy fats like those found in olive oil. That will reduce your RealAge by more than six years.
ţ Omega-3 fatty acids. |
Marshall Editions
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| The active compound, allicin, has antimicrobial properties. Place 3-4 drops of garlic oil into the affected ear.
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TINNITUS
DIAGNOSIS
Tinnitus is a condition that causes you to hear noises in your ears, most commonly ringing or buzzing. Sometimes other noises manifest themselves, such as hissing or whistling. Tinnitus can vary in intensity from intermittent to constant noise and it is often linked with hearing loss. |
| Crush the clove to activate the i V allicin, rub it on the affected areas on the mouth, and then swallow. Avoid using garlic in large amounts or when taking blood-thinning medications.
Thyme: This is a potent antifungal, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory herb that also has antioxidant properties. A few drops of the essential oil diluted with in Yi tsp of olive oil can be placed on the patches of thrush daily. Do not use in large amounts if pregnant.
Oregano oil: This oil eradicates yeast on the membrane of the mouth. |
| NATUROPATHY j^y^fc^ Diet: allicin, the compound responsible lor garlic's pungent odor, has JU^fi^^V antibiotic and antifungal properties that can heal many types of sore throat. (C^ ff^H Take two or more cloves, crushed or whole, at the first sign of a sore throat ^KJl^r and continue eating two cloves a day until your symptoms clear up. An ice cold fruit juice popsicle can be an effective temporary anesthetic for a sore throat. Reduce your intake of dairy and simple carbohydrates, such as fruit, and stick to a diet that consists primarily of vegetables and whole grains. |
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