Guest guest Posted May 17, 2002 Report Share Posted May 17, 2002 Hi folks. I have decided to write this to tell people of the amazing change regular raw garlic consumption has made to my life. I have no idea if the same results would take place in all people. About 5 years ago I was fed up with catching colds that would turn into nasty viral/bacterial illnesses, making me cough uncontrollably until incredibly sore. Muscles would ache, body would feel shocking and this would drag on for nearly 2 weeks at times. I worked around the public 7 days a week, and I guess was always exposed to germs. I had read or heard somewhere that garlic was supposed to help in dealing with infections. I was not one for taking a lot of notice about these kinds of things. My diet at the time was reasonably healthy, but still the colds would develop, along with gastro sicknesses at times too. I hopped onto the internet and searched for garlic links. I was surprised to read pages that everyday people like myself had posted explaining how garlic had incredibly changed their health status. That was it for me, I had to set the trial into action. Well, the trial has never ended. For five years I have consumed on average 4-5 raw cloves of garlic a day. There have been some days where I have not eaten it but these are rare. I eat it at tea time along with the rest of the family. We have all benefited greatly. If one chooses to eat garlic at meal time, then its best that all do for obvious reasons, unless you can tolerate the smell. By the next morning the smell after a shower has gone, in us anyway. It may become noticed if you sweat a lot or possibly have oily skin. As far as I'm concerned the health benefits far outweigh the smell which can result. After starting my garlic consumption, which I hated, because I couldnt stand it raw I have not had a single illness of any sort. I have experienced the feeling of an oncoming infection, but thats all I experience. I feel a little bit tired and down for a few hours, although not to the point where I cant work. Basically I may have one slightly run down day, where I feel a bit tired and odd. These are very rare, and occur 2-3 times a year, generally when the kids catch a cold, which quickly clears up in them. Its as thought the cold passes through me and is gone before it develops into anything. I dont catch any colds, nor do I get any kind of gastric problems. I used to experience Tinea also during the summer, and I no longer get that. I used to do regular trips to the dentist, and have fillings. I no longer get any tooth decay at all. I am slightly overweight, and checkups at the doctor reveal excellent blood pressure and no cholesterol problems. The doctor is amazed that I dont have blood pressure considering I have a fairly physically inactive job, and dont get involved in sport. I have virtually forgotten what it is like to get sick. Garlic is an absolutely amazing plant, that may reduce or eliminate so many health problems in people if only they could overcome the smell stigma! Just dont eat it before socialising is the way I look at it. Its rare that people say they can smell it on me. Anyway who cares when life can be illness free. Stink and ENJOY! :-) Cheers Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2002 Report Share Posted May 18, 2002 Interesting post Mark. I've been on the all raw food diet for about 9 months now. I have had a couple of colds in the wintertime. I have been eating lots of raw garlic though not quite as much as you. There are days that I have around five cloves but not necessarily every day. Now I've heard that getting a cold is actually just a detoxification of the body mostly a house cleaning. In addition, it is possible that not getting a cold is a bad sign. When the body is too weak it will not have enough elimination strength to give you a cold. I've read a story or two of people never getting sick and thinking they are healthy and then find one day that they have Cancer. I of course would prefer never to get a cold. I have heard of one long time raw foodist who hasn't had a cold in 8 years. I know my colds have been much shorter and less intense so far on the all raw diet. I'll see what happens in a year or two of doing it, once my body has detoxified much more. But I'll try having lots of garlic every single day and see if I notice any changes. I probably average around 3 cloves per day as we speak. By the way it doesn't make me smell. I blend it in to a dish I am preparing. I somehow think that being raw affects this smell aspect of the garlic. I used to take garlic pearls many years ago and I would sometimes sweat garlic. I don't have any problems like that with raw garlic. Roger Haeske P.S. Would you like to Discover the Easiest and Most Powerful Peak Performance Program on the planet? This program will quickly improve all areas of your life, is customized to your personality and circumstances, and effortlessly overcomes previous negative beliefs and conditioning. Go to http://www.superbeing.com/magicquestions.htm for your free report. placebos4u [mark] Friday, May 17, 2002 4:43 PM rawfood [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. Hi folks. I have decided to write this to tell people of the amazing change regular raw garlic consumption has made to my life. I have no idea if the same results would take place in all people. About 5 years ago I was fed up with catching colds that would turn into nasty viral/bacterial illnesses, making me cough uncontrollably until incredibly sore. Muscles would ache, body would feel shocking and this would drag on for nearly 2 weeks at times. I worked around the public 7 days a week, and I guess was always exposed to germs. I had read or heard somewhere that garlic was supposed to help in dealing with infections. I was not one for taking a lot of notice about these kinds of things. My diet at the time was reasonably healthy, but still the colds would develop, along with gastro sicknesses at times too. I hopped onto the internet and searched for garlic links. I was surprised to read pages that everyday people like myself had posted explaining how garlic had incredibly changed their health status. That was it for me, I had to set the trial into action. Well, the trial has never ended. For five years I have consumed on average 4-5 raw cloves of garlic a day. There have been some days where I have not eaten it but these are rare. I eat it at tea time along with the rest of the family. We have all benefited greatly. If one chooses to eat garlic at meal time, then its best that all do for obvious reasons, unless you can tolerate the smell. By the next morning the smell after a shower has gone, in us anyway. It may become noticed if you sweat a lot or possibly have oily skin. As far as I'm concerned the health benefits far outweigh the smell which can result. After starting my garlic consumption, which I hated, because I couldnt stand it raw I have not had a single illness of any sort. I have experienced the feeling of an oncoming infection, but thats all I experience. I feel a little bit tired and down for a few hours, although not to the point where I cant work. Basically I may have one slightly run down day, where I feel a bit tired and odd. These are very rare, and occur 2-3 times a year, generally when the kids catch a cold, which quickly clears up in them. Its as thought the cold passes through me and is gone before it develops into anything. I dont catch any colds, nor do I get any kind of gastric problems. I used to experience Tinea also during the summer, and I no longer get that. I used to do regular trips to the dentist, and have fillings. I no longer get any tooth decay at all. I am slightly overweight, and checkups at the doctor reveal excellent blood pressure and no cholesterol problems. The doctor is amazed that I dont have blood pressure considering I have a fairly physically inactive job, and dont get involved in sport. I have virtually forgotten what it is like to get sick. Garlic is an absolutely amazing plant, that may reduce or eliminate so many health problems in people if only they could overcome the smell stigma! Just dont eat it before socialising is the way I look at it. Its rare that people say they can smell it on me. Anyway who cares when life can be illness free. Stink and ENJOY! :-) Cheers Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2002 Report Share Posted May 18, 2002 Hi Roger I must say I have never heard of a cold described as you have described it..<<Now I've heard that getting a cold is actually just a detoxification of the body mostly a house cleaning.>> According to what I was taught at university during my biological sciences degree a cold is an infection caused by a virus, and most commonly from the group called Rhinoviridae. Most of the symptoms of the cold are due to your own immune system responding to the invasion. The greater the numbers of viruses the harder the immune system works, making you feel very ill. Following this a secondary infection of the bacterial sort often occurs. This results as your immune system is working so hard making antibodies against the virus that bacteria can reproduce more successfully. Damaging toxic compounds are produced by bacteria, so you dont want this. As far as I'm aware I still do get the viral infection but my immune system is capable of knocking it on the head before the virus takes over and builds into great numbers. The reason for this is that the sulpher compounds contained in garlic penetrate well into the bodies tissues and remain there. As garlic contains anti-fungal, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial compounds any microorganisms invading the body are killed off in the first instance by the sulpher compounds and then secondarily by your own immune system. This means your immune system is still working and responding. Without your immune system properly functioning the virus would eventually take over as the sulpher compounds will only slow the replication, not competely stop it. So this means that a regular garlic eater has a dual protection system to microorganism invasion. This is why I can feel the cold coming on, but it never gets anywhere. According to research I have read raw garlic has a multitude of health benefits. Population research shows major reductions in various cancers of garlic eaters. This is especially true of stomach and intestinal cancers. Blood is thinned by garlic, supposedly making the blood less viscous and allowing more easy passage through vessels. This means reduced chance of stroke, heart attack etc. The smell associated with garlic comes from Allicin, which is a very strong antibiotic, capable of killing Anthrax as far as I'm aware. This antibiotic is formed after cutting the garlic when allinase reacts with allian (spelling?), to produce the sulpher based antibiotic. Sulper compounds often smell...recall rotten egg gas at school. Or digging into the dark mud on a flat beach with little tidal movement. Anaerobic bacteria often produce sulpher products from metabolism. I recently read in a scientific magazine that the Swedish army conducted a test on their soldiers using garlic. The soldiers were becoming ill as a result of tick bites. Soldiers placed on a regular garlic diet were not being infected by ticks and not becoming ill. Vets also tell dog owners to feed it to their dogs to stop fleas, and according to a friend of mine it works, not too surprising though. There is no doubt your raw food diet will give you much greater health benefit and protection than cooked or processed food. Keep up the garlic, it wont kill you. :-) Cheers Mark -- In rawfood, " Roger Haeske " <roger@s...> wrote: > Interesting post Mark. I've been on the all raw food diet for about 9 > months now. I have had a couple of colds in the wintertime. I have been > eating lots of raw garlic though not quite as much as you. There are > days that I have around five cloves but not necessarily every day. > > Now I've heard that getting a cold is actually just a detoxification of > the body mostly a house cleaning. In addition, it is possible that not > getting a cold is a bad sign. When the body is too weak it will not have > enough elimination strength to give you a cold. I've read a story or two > of people never getting sick and thinking they are healthy and then find > one day that they have Cancer. > > I of course would prefer never to get a cold. I have heard of one long > time raw foodist who hasn't had a cold in 8 years. I know my colds have > been much shorter and less intense so far on the all raw diet. I'll see > what happens in a year or two of doing it, once my body has detoxified > much more. > > But I'll try having lots of garlic every single day and see if I notice > any changes. I probably average around 3 cloves per day as we speak. By > the way it doesn't make me smell. I blend it in to a dish I am > preparing. I somehow think that being raw affects this smell aspect of > the garlic. > > I used to take garlic pearls many years ago and I would sometimes sweat > garlic. I don't have any problems like that with raw garlic. > > Roger Haeske > P.S. Would you like to Discover the Easiest and Most Powerful Peak > Performance Program on the planet? This program will quickly improve all > areas of your life, is customized to your personality and circumstances, > and effortlessly overcomes previous negative beliefs and conditioning. > Go to http://www.superbeing.com/magicquestions.htm for your free report. > > placebos4u [mark@t...] > Friday, May 17, 2002 4:43 PM > rawfood > [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. > > > Hi folks. > I have decided to write this to tell people of the amazing change > regular raw garlic consumption has made to my life. I have no idea if > the same results would take place in all people. > > About 5 years ago I was fed up with catching colds that would turn > into nasty viral/bacterial illnesses, making me cough uncontrollably > until incredibly sore. Muscles would ache, body would feel shocking > and this would drag on for nearly 2 weeks at times. I worked around > the public 7 days a week, and I guess was always exposed to germs. > I had read or heard somewhere that garlic was supposed to help in > dealing with infections. I was not one for taking a lot of notice > about these kinds of things. My diet at the time was reasonably > healthy, but still the colds would develop, along with gastro > sicknesses at times too. > I hopped onto the internet and searched for garlic links. I was > surprised to read pages that everyday people like myself had posted > explaining how garlic had incredibly changed their health status. > That was it for me, I had to set the trial into action. > Well, the trial has never ended. For five years I have consumed on > average 4-5 raw cloves of garlic a day. There have been some days > where I have not eaten it but these are rare. I eat it at tea time > along with the rest of the family. We have all benefited greatly. If > one chooses to eat garlic at meal time, then its best that all do for > obvious reasons, unless you can tolerate the smell. By the next > morning the smell after a shower has gone, in us anyway. It may > become noticed if you sweat a lot or possibly have oily skin. > > As far as I'm concerned the health benefits far outweigh the smell > which can result. > > After starting my garlic consumption, which I hated, because I > couldnt stand it raw I have not had a single illness of any sort. I > have experienced the feeling of an oncoming infection, but thats all > I experience. I feel a little bit tired and down for a few hours, > although not to the point where I cant work. Basically I may have one > slightly run down day, where I feel a bit tired and odd. These are > very rare, and occur 2-3 times a year, generally when the kids catch > a cold, which quickly clears up in them. Its as thought the cold > passes through me and is gone before it develops into anything. > I dont catch any colds, nor do I get any kind of gastric problems. > I used to experience Tinea also during the summer, and I no longer > get that. I used to do regular trips to the dentist, and have > fillings. I no longer get any tooth decay at all. I am slightly > overweight, and checkups at the doctor reveal excellent blood > pressure and no cholesterol problems. The doctor is amazed that I > dont have blood pressure considering I have a fairly physically > inactive job, and dont get involved in sport. > > I have virtually forgotten what it is like to get sick. Garlic is an > absolutely amazing plant, that may reduce or eliminate so many health > problems in people if only they could overcome the smell stigma! Just > dont eat it before socialising is the way I look at it. Its rare that > people say they can smell it on me. Anyway who cares when life can be > illness free. Stink and ENJOY! :-) > > > Cheers > Mark > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2002 Report Share Posted May 18, 2002 Nice post Mark. Your post had better information than all the sites and books I was reading on Garlic last night and this morning. The info was good because it was combined with your experience. As far as the colds theory, it is a common theory in the raw foods movement. The belief is that if your body is internally clean that viruses have nothing to feed on and therefore you won't get sick. Look into the Arnold Ehret books the " Mucousless Diet Healing System " . He blames mucous as a major culprit in causing disease, colds etc. His book is from near the turn of the century and so it has lots of very old data. Viruses supposedly feed off of the junk and mucous that is inside our bodies, left over by poor eating habits and who knows what else. Of course, I am aware of the more accepted reasons for colds. But then again I am a raw foodist and I have seen the amazing benefits of the raw diet. A while back I cut my hand very badly and needed 18 stitches. The doctors prescribed some kind of antibiotic to fight infection. I never took any and had no infection problems. I also removed the stitches myself saving myself at least two extra expensive doctor visits. Do you know for a 1.5 hour procedure in the hospital emergency room I was billed $1,000 US. I think that was totally ludicrous. Now my father tells me I didn't even need to get stitches. In the old days, he said people wouldn't get stitches; they just deal with the problem on their own. What he means by old days was when he was a child in the 40's and 50's. I learned many years ago on my first attempts at the raw diet that infections clear up on while going raw. I had previous experience not to worry about infections. Now I can also supplement my diet with more garlic to fight in those regards. Many people in the Natural Hygiene Movement are against eating any kind of spicy food including garlic. They feel these spicy and hot foods irritate our bodies and are basically not good for the body. I just happen to love hot and spicy food so I haven't dropped that habit as of yet. There may be good reasons to continue along these lines. Then you have the people like David Wolfe who recommends spicy foods to improve the health. The best method is trial and error. I know as a young child I hated hot foods. If I hated it then maybe it is not natural for people to eat it. Then again, God put all these wonderful herbs down here on our planet and maybe they are here to help us heal. There are many questions to be asked and answered. I read somewhere that it is estimated that garlic has about 1% of the antibiotic power of penicillin. I had about 6 cloves yesterday. I had a little garlic breath this morning, but nothing major. Thanks again for your posts Mark. Roger Haeske P.S. Would you like to Discover the Easiest and Most Powerful Peak Performance Program on the planet? This program will quickly improve all areas of your life, is customized to your personality and circumstances, and effortlessly overcomes previous negative beliefs and conditioning. Go to http://www.superbeing.com/magicquestions.htm for your free report. placebos4u [mark] Saturday, May 18, 2002 5:24 AM rawfood Re: [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. Hi Roger I must say I have never heard of a cold described as you have described it..<<Now I've heard that getting a cold is actually just a detoxification of the body mostly a house cleaning.>> According to what I was taught at university during my biological sciences degree a cold is an infection caused by a virus, and most commonly from the group called Rhinoviridae. Most of the symptoms of the cold are due to your own immune system responding to the invasion. The greater the numbers of viruses the harder the immune system works, making you feel very ill. Following this a secondary infection of the bacterial sort often occurs. This results as your immune system is working so hard making antibodies against the virus that bacteria can reproduce more successfully. Damaging toxic compounds are produced by bacteria, so you dont want this. As far as I'm aware I still do get the viral infection but my immune system is capable of knocking it on the head before the virus takes over and builds into great numbers. The reason for this is that the sulpher compounds contained in garlic penetrate well into the bodies tissues and remain there. As garlic contains anti-fungal, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial compounds any microorganisms invading the body are killed off in the first instance by the sulpher compounds and then secondarily by your own immune system. This means your immune system is still working and responding. Without your immune system properly functioning the virus would eventually take over as the sulpher compounds will only slow the replication, not competely stop it. So this means that a regular garlic eater has a dual protection system to microorganism invasion. This is why I can feel the cold coming on, but it never gets anywhere. According to research I have read raw garlic has a multitude of health benefits. Population research shows major reductions in various cancers of garlic eaters. This is especially true of stomach and intestinal cancers. Blood is thinned by garlic, supposedly making the blood less viscous and allowing more easy passage through vessels. This means reduced chance of stroke, heart attack etc. The smell associated with garlic comes from Allicin, which is a very strong antibiotic, capable of killing Anthrax as far as I'm aware. This antibiotic is formed after cutting the garlic when allinase reacts with allian (spelling?), to produce the sulpher based antibiotic. Sulper compounds often smell...recall rotten egg gas at school. Or digging into the dark mud on a flat beach with little tidal movement. Anaerobic bacteria often produce sulpher products from metabolism. I recently read in a scientific magazine that the Swedish army conducted a test on their soldiers using garlic. The soldiers were becoming ill as a result of tick bites. Soldiers placed on a regular garlic diet were not being infected by ticks and not becoming ill. Vets also tell dog owners to feed it to their dogs to stop fleas, and according to a friend of mine it works, not too surprising though. There is no doubt your raw food diet will give you much greater health benefit and protection than cooked or processed food. Keep up the garlic, it wont kill you. :-) Cheers Mark -- In rawfood, " Roger Haeske " <roger@s...> wrote: > Interesting post Mark. I've been on the all raw food diet for about 9 > months now. I have had a couple of colds in the wintertime. I have been > eating lots of raw garlic though not quite as much as you. There are > days that I have around five cloves but not necessarily every day. > > Now I've heard that getting a cold is actually just a detoxification of > the body mostly a house cleaning. In addition, it is possible that not > getting a cold is a bad sign. When the body is too weak it will not have > enough elimination strength to give you a cold. I've read a story or two > of people never getting sick and thinking they are healthy and then find > one day that they have Cancer. > > I of course would prefer never to get a cold. I have heard of one long > time raw foodist who hasn't had a cold in 8 years. I know my colds have > been much shorter and less intense so far on the all raw diet. I'll see > what happens in a year or two of doing it, once my body has detoxified > much more. > > But I'll try having lots of garlic every single day and see if I notice > any changes. I probably average around 3 cloves per day as we speak. By > the way it doesn't make me smell. I blend it in to a dish I am > preparing. I somehow think that being raw affects this smell aspect of > the garlic. > > I used to take garlic pearls many years ago and I would sometimes sweat > garlic. I don't have any problems like that with raw garlic. > > Roger Haeske > P.S. Would you like to Discover the Easiest and Most Powerful Peak > Performance Program on the planet? This program will quickly improve all > areas of your life, is customized to your personality and circumstances, > and effortlessly overcomes previous negative beliefs and conditioning. > Go to http://www.superbeing.com/magicquestions.htm for your free report. > > placebos4u [mark@t...] > Friday, May 17, 2002 4:43 PM > rawfood > [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. > > > Hi folks. > I have decided to write this to tell people of the amazing change > regular raw garlic consumption has made to my life. I have no idea if > the same results would take place in all people. > > About 5 years ago I was fed up with catching colds that would turn > into nasty viral/bacterial illnesses, making me cough uncontrollably > until incredibly sore. Muscles would ache, body would feel shocking > and this would drag on for nearly 2 weeks at times. I worked around > the public 7 days a week, and I guess was always exposed to germs. > I had read or heard somewhere that garlic was supposed to help in > dealing with infections. I was not one for taking a lot of notice > about these kinds of things. My diet at the time was reasonably > healthy, but still the colds would develop, along with gastro > sicknesses at times too. > I hopped onto the internet and searched for garlic links. I was > surprised to read pages that everyday people like myself had posted > explaining how garlic had incredibly changed their health status. > That was it for me, I had to set the trial into action. > Well, the trial has never ended. For five years I have consumed on > average 4-5 raw cloves of garlic a day. There have been some days > where I have not eaten it but these are rare. I eat it at tea time > along with the rest of the family. We have all benefited greatly. If > one chooses to eat garlic at meal time, then its best that all do for > obvious reasons, unless you can tolerate the smell. By the next > morning the smell after a shower has gone, in us anyway. It may > become noticed if you sweat a lot or possibly have oily skin. > > As far as I'm concerned the health benefits far outweigh the smell > which can result. > > After starting my garlic consumption, which I hated, because I > couldnt stand it raw I have not had a single illness of any sort. I > have experienced the feeling of an oncoming infection, but thats all > I experience. I feel a little bit tired and down for a few hours, > although not to the point where I cant work. Basically I may have one > slightly run down day, where I feel a bit tired and odd. These are > very rare, and occur 2-3 times a year, generally when the kids catch > a cold, which quickly clears up in them. Its as thought the cold > passes through me and is gone before it develops into anything. > I dont catch any colds, nor do I get any kind of gastric problems. > I used to experience Tinea also during the summer, and I no longer > get that. I used to do regular trips to the dentist, and have > fillings. I no longer get any tooth decay at all. I am slightly > overweight, and checkups at the doctor reveal excellent blood > pressure and no cholesterol problems. The doctor is amazed that I > dont have blood pressure considering I have a fairly physically > inactive job, and dont get involved in sport. > > I have virtually forgotten what it is like to get sick. Garlic is an > absolutely amazing plant, that may reduce or eliminate so many health > problems in people if only they could overcome the smell stigma! Just > dont eat it before socialising is the way I look at it. Its rare that > people say they can smell it on me. Anyway who cares when life can be > illness free. Stink and ENJOY! :-) > > > Cheers > Mark > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2002 Report Share Posted May 18, 2002 Hi Roger Thanks for the discussion. I have to have a different opinion as to how and why viruses invade our bodies. I can't really come to terms with this description..<<The belief is that if your body is internally clean that viruses have nothing to feed on and therefore you won't get sick.>> Viruses are parasites and require to use a host cell in order to replicate. They dont carry the genetic machinery necessary for replication. So viruses dont actually feed so to speak. In fact viruses are often considered non-living. A particular virus has chemical receptors on its surface which chemically bind to a specific chemical on a cells surface. They lock together and the virus empties its genetic contents into the host cell. The host cells machinery is then converted to produce viral particles. There is no feeding as such. You can be perfectly healthy and still take viral particles on board and have them begin replication. Viruses are a natural part of life as are bacteria. The degree of illness will depend on the type of virus and how effectively your immune system can deal with it. Choosing to eat raw food is a good way to make sure your body receives lots of natural enzymes, proteins etc that ther body can utilise in the fight against infection. Cooking denatures protein chemical bonds leaving residual by products of those originally present. Its interesting you mention the infected cut. I read an article online somewhere, where a lady who already eats garlic regularly had a bacterial infection in her thumb. She ate more garlic, hoping this would help, but the infection remained. After two weeks without improvement and still a sore thumb she decided to apply garlic directly to the thumb. The next morning the swelling had reduced in size by half and the infection was cleared up inside 3 days. No prescribed antibiotics...but rather natural antibiotics. Interesting stuff Cheers Mark rawfood, " Roger Haeske " <roger@s...> wrote: > Nice post Mark. Your post had better information than all the sites and > books I was reading on Garlic last night and this morning. The info was > good because it was combined with your experience. > > As far as the colds theory, it is a common theory in the raw foods > movement. The belief is that if your body is internally clean that > viruses have nothing to feed on and therefore you won't get sick. Look > into the Arnold Ehret books the " Mucousless Diet Healing System " . He > blames mucous as a major culprit in causing disease, colds etc. His book > is from near the turn of the century and so it has lots of very old > data. Viruses supposedly feed off of the junk and mucous that is inside > our bodies, left over by poor eating habits and who knows what else. > > Of course, I am aware of the more accepted reasons for colds. But then > again I am a raw foodist and I have seen the amazing benefits of the raw > diet. A while back I cut my hand very badly and needed 18 stitches. The > doctors prescribed some kind of antibiotic to fight infection. I never > took any and had no infection problems. I also removed the stitches > myself saving myself at least two extra expensive doctor visits. > > Do you know for a 1.5 hour procedure in the hospital emergency room I > was billed $1,000 US. I think that was totally ludicrous. Now my father > tells me I didn't even need to get stitches. In the old days, he said > people wouldn't get stitches; they just deal with the problem on their > own. What he means by old days was when he was a child in the 40's and > 50's. > > I learned many years ago on my first attempts at the raw diet that > infections clear up on while going raw. I had previous experience not to > worry about infections. Now I can also supplement my diet with more > garlic to fight in those regards. Many people in the Natural Hygiene > Movement are against eating any kind of spicy food including garlic. > They feel these spicy and hot foods irritate our bodies and are > basically not good for the body. > > I just happen to love hot and spicy food so I haven't dropped that habit > as of yet. There may be good reasons to continue along these lines. Then > you have the people like David Wolfe who recommends spicy foods to > improve the health. The best method is trial and error. > > I know as a young child I hated hot foods. If I hated it then maybe it > is not natural for people to eat it. Then again, God put all these > wonderful herbs down here on our planet and maybe they are here to help > us heal. There are many questions to be asked and answered. > > I read somewhere that it is estimated that garlic has about 1% of the > antibiotic power of penicillin. I had about 6 cloves yesterday. I had a > little garlic breath this morning, but nothing major. > > Thanks again for your posts Mark. > > Roger Haeske > > P.S. Would you like to Discover the Easiest and Most Powerful Peak > Performance Program on the planet? This program will quickly improve all > areas of your life, is customized to your personality and circumstances, > and effortlessly overcomes previous negative beliefs and conditioning. > Go to http://www.superbeing.com/magicquestions.htm for your free report. > > placebos4u [mark@t...] > Saturday, May 18, 2002 5:24 AM > rawfood > Re: [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. > > Hi Roger > > I must say I have never heard of a cold described as you have > described it..<<Now I've heard that getting a cold is actually just a > detoxification of the body mostly a house cleaning.>> > > According to what I was taught at university during my biological > sciences degree a cold is an infection caused by a virus, and most > commonly from the group called Rhinoviridae. Most of the symptoms of > the cold are due to your own immune system responding to the > invasion. The greater the numbers of viruses the harder the immune > system works, making you feel very ill. Following this a secondary > infection of the bacterial sort often occurs. This results as your > immune system is working so hard making antibodies against the virus > that bacteria can reproduce more successfully. Damaging toxic > compounds are produced by bacteria, so you dont want this. > As far as I'm aware I still do get the viral infection but my immune > system is capable of knocking it on the head before the virus takes > over and builds into great numbers. The reason for this is that the > sulpher compounds contained in garlic penetrate well into the bodies > tissues and remain there. As garlic contains anti-fungal, anti- viral, > and anti-bacterial compounds any microorganisms invading the body are > killed off in the first instance by the sulpher compounds and then > secondarily by your own immune system. This means your immune system > is still working and responding. Without your immune system properly > functioning the virus would eventually take over as the sulpher > compounds will only slow the replication, not competely stop it. So > this means that a regular garlic eater has a dual protection system > to microorganism invasion. This is why I can feel the cold coming on, > but it never gets anywhere. > > According to research I have read raw garlic has a multitude of > health benefits. Population research shows major reductions in > various cancers of garlic eaters. This is especially true of stomach > and intestinal cancers. Blood is thinned by garlic, supposedly making > the blood less viscous and allowing more easy passage through > vessels. This means reduced chance of stroke, heart attack etc. > The smell associated with garlic comes from Allicin, which is a very > strong antibiotic, capable of killing Anthrax as far as I'm aware. > This antibiotic is formed after cutting the garlic when allinase > reacts with allian (spelling?), to produce the sulpher based > antibiotic. Sulper compounds often smell...recall rotten egg gas at > school. Or digging into the dark mud on a flat beach with little > tidal movement. Anaerobic bacteria often produce sulpher products > from metabolism. > > I recently read in a scientific magazine that the Swedish army > conducted a test on their soldiers using garlic. The soldiers were > becoming ill as a result of tick bites. Soldiers placed on a regular > garlic diet were not being infected by ticks and not becoming ill. > Vets also tell dog owners to feed it to their dogs to stop fleas, and > according to a friend of mine it works, not too surprising though. > > There is no doubt your raw food diet will give you much greater > health benefit and protection than cooked or processed food. Keep up > the garlic, it wont kill you. :-) > > Cheers > Mark > > > > > > -- In rawfood, " Roger Haeske " <roger@s...> wrote: > > Interesting post Mark. I've been on the all raw food diet for about > 9 > > months now. I have had a couple of colds in the wintertime. I have > been > > eating lots of raw garlic though not quite as much as you. There are > > days that I have around five cloves but not necessarily every day. > > > > Now I've heard that getting a cold is actually just a > detoxification of > > the body mostly a house cleaning. In addition, it is possible that > not > > getting a cold is a bad sign. When the body is too weak it will not > have > > enough elimination strength to give you a cold. I've read a story > or two > > of people never getting sick and thinking they are healthy and then > find > > one day that they have Cancer. > > > > I of course would prefer never to get a cold. I have heard of one > long > > time raw foodist who hasn't had a cold in 8 years. I know my colds > have > > been much shorter and less intense so far on the all raw diet. I'll > see > > what happens in a year or two of doing it, once my body has > detoxified > > much more. > > > > But I'll try having lots of garlic every single day and see if I > notice > > any changes. I probably average around 3 cloves per day as we > speak. By > > the way it doesn't make me smell. I blend it in to a dish I am > > preparing. I somehow think that being raw affects this smell aspect > of > > the garlic. > > > > I used to take garlic pearls many years ago and I would sometimes > sweat > > garlic. I don't have any problems like that with raw garlic. > > > > Roger Haeske > > P.S. Would you like to Discover the Easiest and Most Powerful Peak > > Performance Program on the planet? This program will quickly > improve all > > areas of your life, is customized to your personality and > circumstances, > > and effortlessly overcomes previous negative beliefs and > conditioning. > > Go to http://www.superbeing.com/magicquestions.htm for your free > report. > > > > placebos4u [mark@t...] > > Friday, May 17, 2002 4:43 PM > > rawfood > > [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. > > > > > > Hi folks. > > I have decided to write this to tell people of the amazing change > > regular raw garlic consumption has made to my life. I have no idea > if > > the same results would take place in all people. > > > > About 5 years ago I was fed up with catching colds that would turn > > into nasty viral/bacterial illnesses, making me cough > uncontrollably > > until incredibly sore. Muscles would ache, body would feel shocking > > and this would drag on for nearly 2 weeks at times. I worked around > > the public 7 days a week, and I guess was always exposed to germs. > > I had read or heard somewhere that garlic was supposed to help in > > dealing with infections. I was not one for taking a lot of notice > > about these kinds of things. My diet at the time was reasonably > > healthy, but still the colds would develop, along with gastro > > sicknesses at times too. > > I hopped onto the internet and searched for garlic links. I was > > surprised to read pages that everyday people like myself had posted > > explaining how garlic had incredibly changed their health status. > > That was it for me, I had to set the trial into action. > > Well, the trial has never ended. For five years I have consumed on > > average 4-5 raw cloves of garlic a day. There have been some days > > where I have not eaten it but these are rare. I eat it at tea time > > along with the rest of the family. We have all benefited greatly. > If > > one chooses to eat garlic at meal time, then its best that all do > for > > obvious reasons, unless you can tolerate the smell. By the next > > morning the smell after a shower has gone, in us anyway. It may > > become noticed if you sweat a lot or possibly have oily skin. > > > > As far as I'm concerned the health benefits far outweigh the smell > > which can result. > > > > After starting my garlic consumption, which I hated, because I > > couldnt stand it raw I have not had a single illness of any sort. I > > have experienced the feeling of an oncoming infection, but thats > all > > I experience. I feel a little bit tired and down for a few hours, > > although not to the point where I cant work. Basically I may have > one > > slightly run down day, where I feel a bit tired and odd. These are > > very rare, and occur 2-3 times a year, generally when the kids > catch > > a cold, which quickly clears up in them. Its as thought the cold > > passes through me and is gone before it develops into anything. > > I dont catch any colds, nor do I get any kind of gastric problems. > > I used to experience Tinea also during the summer, and I no longer > > get that. I used to do regular trips to the dentist, and have > > fillings. I no longer get any tooth decay at all. I am slightly > > overweight, and checkups at the doctor reveal excellent blood > > pressure and no cholesterol problems. The doctor is amazed that I > > dont have blood pressure considering I have a fairly physically > > inactive job, and dont get involved in sport. > > > > I have virtually forgotten what it is like to get sick. Garlic is > an > > absolutely amazing plant, that may reduce or eliminate so many > health > > problems in people if only they could overcome the smell stigma! > Just > > dont eat it before socialising is the way I look at it. Its rare > that > > people say they can smell it on me. Anyway who cares when life can > be > > illness free. Stink and ENJOY! :-) > > > > > > Cheers > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2002 Report Share Posted May 18, 2002 The garlic debate is an excellent read. Much enjoyed and reinforces my moderate intake. Thanks Roger Haeske [roger] Saturday, May 18, 2002 3:59 PM rawfood RE: [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. Nice post Mark. Your post had better information than all the sites and books I was reading on Garlic last night and this morning. The info was good because it was combined with your experience. As far as the colds theory, it is a common theory in the raw foods movement. The belief is that if your body is internally clean that viruses have nothing to feed on and therefore you won't get sick. Look into the Arnold Ehret books the " Mucousless Diet Healing System " . He blames mucous as a major culprit in causing disease, colds etc. His book is from near the turn of the century and so it has lots of very old data. Viruses supposedly feed off of the junk and mucous that is inside our bodies, left over by poor eating habits and who knows what else. Of course, I am aware of the more accepted reasons for colds. But then again I am a raw foodist and I have seen the amazing benefits of the raw diet. A while back I cut my hand very badly and needed 18 stitches. The doctors prescribed some kind of antibiotic to fight infection. I never took any and had no infection problems. I also removed the stitches myself saving myself at least two extra expensive doctor visits. Do you know for a 1.5 hour procedure in the hospital emergency room I was billed $1,000 US. I think that was totally ludicrous. Now my father tells me I didn't even need to get stitches. In the old days, he said people wouldn't get stitches; they just deal with the problem on their own. What he means by old days was when he was a child in the 40's and 50's. I learned many years ago on my first attempts at the raw diet that infections clear up on while going raw. I had previous experience not to worry about infections. Now I can also supplement my diet with more garlic to fight in those regards. Many people in the Natural Hygiene Movement are against eating any kind of spicy food including garlic. They feel these spicy and hot foods irritate our bodies and are basically not good for the body. I just happen to love hot and spicy food so I haven't dropped that habit as of yet. There may be good reasons to continue along these lines. Then you have the people like David Wolfe who recommends spicy foods to improve the health. The best method is trial and error. I know as a young child I hated hot foods. If I hated it then maybe it is not natural for people to eat it. Then again, God put all these wonderful herbs down here on our planet and maybe they are here to help us heal. There are many questions to be asked and answered. I read somewhere that it is estimated that garlic has about 1% of the antibiotic power of penicillin. I had about 6 cloves yesterday. I had a little garlic breath this morning, but nothing major. Thanks again for your posts Mark. Roger Haeske P.S. Would you like to Discover the Easiest and Most Powerful Peak Performance Program on the planet? This program will quickly improve all areas of your life, is customized to your personality and circumstances, and effortlessly overcomes previous negative beliefs and conditioning. Go to http://www.superbeing.com/magicquestions.htm for your free report. placebos4u [mark] Saturday, May 18, 2002 5:24 AM rawfood Re: [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. Hi Roger I must say I have never heard of a cold described as you have described it..<<Now I've heard that getting a cold is actually just a detoxification of the body mostly a house cleaning.>> According to what I was taught at university during my biological sciences degree a cold is an infection caused by a virus, and most commonly from the group called Rhinoviridae. Most of the symptoms of the cold are due to your own immune system responding to the invasion. The greater the numbers of viruses the harder the immune system works, making you feel very ill. Following this a secondary infection of the bacterial sort often occurs. This results as your immune system is working so hard making antibodies against the virus that bacteria can reproduce more successfully. Damaging toxic compounds are produced by bacteria, so you dont want this. As far as I'm aware I still do get the viral infection but my immune system is capable of knocking it on the head before the virus takes over and builds into great numbers. The reason for this is that the sulpher compounds contained in garlic penetrate well into the bodies tissues and remain there. As garlic contains anti-fungal, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial compounds any microorganisms invading the body are killed off in the first instance by the sulpher compounds and then secondarily by your own immune system. This means your immune system is still working and responding. Without your immune system properly functioning the virus would eventually take over as the sulpher compounds will only slow the replication, not competely stop it. So this means that a regular garlic eater has a dual protection system to microorganism invasion. This is why I can feel the cold coming on, but it never gets anywhere. According to research I have read raw garlic has a multitude of health benefits. Population research shows major reductions in various cancers of garlic eaters. This is especially true of stomach and intestinal cancers. Blood is thinned by garlic, supposedly making the blood less viscous and allowing more easy passage through vessels. This means reduced chance of stroke, heart attack etc. The smell associated with garlic comes from Allicin, which is a very strong antibiotic, capable of killing Anthrax as far as I'm aware. This antibiotic is formed after cutting the garlic when allinase reacts with allian (spelling?), to produce the sulpher based antibiotic. Sulper compounds often smell...recall rotten egg gas at school. Or digging into the dark mud on a flat beach with little tidal movement. Anaerobic bacteria often produce sulpher products from metabolism. I recently read in a scientific magazine that the Swedish army conducted a test on their soldiers using garlic. The soldiers were becoming ill as a result of tick bites. Soldiers placed on a regular garlic diet were not being infected by ticks and not becoming ill. Vets also tell dog owners to feed it to their dogs to stop fleas, and according to a friend of mine it works, not too surprising though. There is no doubt your raw food diet will give you much greater health benefit and protection than cooked or processed food. Keep up the garlic, it wont kill you. :-) Cheers Mark -- In rawfood, " Roger Haeske " <roger@s...> wrote: > Interesting post Mark. I've been on the all raw food diet for about 9 > months now. I have had a couple of colds in the wintertime. I have been > eating lots of raw garlic though not quite as much as you. There are > days that I have around five cloves but not necessarily every day. > > Now I've heard that getting a cold is actually just a detoxification of > the body mostly a house cleaning. In addition, it is possible that not > getting a cold is a bad sign. When the body is too weak it will not have > enough elimination strength to give you a cold. I've read a story or two > of people never getting sick and thinking they are healthy and then find > one day that they have Cancer. > > I of course would prefer never to get a cold. I have heard of one long > time raw foodist who hasn't had a cold in 8 years. I know my colds have > been much shorter and less intense so far on the all raw diet. I'll see > what happens in a year or two of doing it, once my body has detoxified > much more. > > But I'll try having lots of garlic every single day and see if I notice > any changes. I probably average around 3 cloves per day as we speak. By > the way it doesn't make me smell. I blend it in to a dish I am > preparing. I somehow think that being raw affects this smell aspect of > the garlic. > > I used to take garlic pearls many years ago and I would sometimes sweat > garlic. I don't have any problems like that with raw garlic. > > Roger Haeske > P.S. Would you like to Discover the Easiest and Most Powerful Peak > Performance Program on the planet? This program will quickly improve all > areas of your life, is customized to your personality and circumstances, > and effortlessly overcomes previous negative beliefs and conditioning. > Go to http://www.superbeing.com/magicquestions.htm for your free report. > > placebos4u [mark@t...] > Friday, May 17, 2002 4:43 PM > rawfood > [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. > > > Hi folks. > I have decided to write this to tell people of the amazing change > regular raw garlic consumption has made to my life. I have no idea if > the same results would take place in all people. > > About 5 years ago I was fed up with catching colds that would turn > into nasty viral/bacterial illnesses, making me cough uncontrollably > until incredibly sore. Muscles would ache, body would feel shocking > and this would drag on for nearly 2 weeks at times. I worked around > the public 7 days a week, and I guess was always exposed to germs. > I had read or heard somewhere that garlic was supposed to help in > dealing with infections. I was not one for taking a lot of notice > about these kinds of things. My diet at the time was reasonably > healthy, but still the colds would develop, along with gastro > sicknesses at times too. > I hopped onto the internet and searched for garlic links. I was > surprised to read pages that everyday people like myself had posted > explaining how garlic had incredibly changed their health status. > That was it for me, I had to set the trial into action. > Well, the trial has never ended. For five years I have consumed on > average 4-5 raw cloves of garlic a day. There have been some days > where I have not eaten it but these are rare. I eat it at tea time > along with the rest of the family. We have all benefited greatly. If > one chooses to eat garlic at meal time, then its best that all do for > obvious reasons, unless you can tolerate the smell. By the next > morning the smell after a shower has gone, in us anyway. It may > become noticed if you sweat a lot or possibly have oily skin. > > As far as I'm concerned the health benefits far outweigh the smell > which can result. > > After starting my garlic consumption, which I hated, because I > couldnt stand it raw I have not had a single illness of any sort. I > have experienced the feeling of an oncoming infection, but thats all > I experience. I feel a little bit tired and down for a few hours, > although not to the point where I cant work. Basically I may have one > slightly run down day, where I feel a bit tired and odd. These are > very rare, and occur 2-3 times a year, generally when the kids catch > a cold, which quickly clears up in them. Its as thought the cold > passes through me and is gone before it develops into anything. > I dont catch any colds, nor do I get any kind of gastric problems. > I used to experience Tinea also during the summer, and I no longer > get that. I used to do regular trips to the dentist, and have > fillings. I no longer get any tooth decay at all. I am slightly > overweight, and checkups at the doctor reveal excellent blood > pressure and no cholesterol problems. The doctor is amazed that I > dont have blood pressure considering I have a fairly physically > inactive job, and dont get involved in sport. > > I have virtually forgotten what it is like to get sick. Garlic is an > absolutely amazing plant, that may reduce or eliminate so many health > problems in people if only they could overcome the smell stigma! Just > dont eat it before socialising is the way I look at it. Its rare that > people say they can smell it on me. Anyway who cares when life can be > illness free. Stink and ENJOY! :-) > > > Cheers > Mark > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 19, 2002 Report Share Posted May 19, 2002 Great post Mark, I'll have to check in on one of my books called " Awakening Our Self-Healing Body " , by Arthur M. Baker. Actually he is or was a member of this group. His screen name has satsang in it. In his book he explains many things in depth regarding viruses and germ theory etc. When I was reading the book I was amazed that scientists aren't really sure what a virus is and they don't even think it is living. That doesn't seem to make any sense to me, at least on an intuitive level. Anyway, in his book I believe he supports ideas similar to what I have mentioned. Therefore, I want to see what someone who better understands viruses and bacteria than I, has to say about it. Of course, his viewpoint is skewed towards the Natural Hygiene viewpoint. It will be interesting reading. I'll post the highlights for further discussion. I am thoroughly enjoying adding more garlic to my diet. For me this isn't a problem since I make raw foods in which the raw garlic just adds to the flavor. I may end up eating seven cloves today. Though I don't think I'll really be tested until the fall when flu season hits. I usually don't get sick in the spring or summer. Is anyone else eating more garlic now? Roger Haeske P.S. Get a Free 6 Step Technique to Transition to a Raw Diet, go to http://superbeing.com/awesometechnique.htm placebos4u [mark] Saturday, May 18, 2002 2:51 PM rawfood Re: [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. Hi Roger Thanks for the discussion. I have to have a different opinion as to how and why viruses invade our bodies. I can't really come to terms with this description..<<The belief is that if your body is internally clean that viruses have nothing to feed on and therefore you won't get sick.>> Viruses are parasites and require to use a host cell in order to replicate. They dont carry the genetic machinery necessary for replication. So viruses dont actually feed so to speak. In fact viruses are often considered non-living. A particular virus has chemical receptors on its surface which chemically bind to a specific chemical on a cells surface. They lock together and the virus empties its genetic contents into the host cell. The host cells machinery is then converted to produce viral particles. There is no feeding as such. You can be perfectly healthy and still take viral particles on board and have them begin replication. Viruses are a natural part of life as are bacteria. The degree of illness will depend on the type of virus and how effectively your immune system can deal with it. Choosing to eat raw food is a good way to make sure your body receives lots of natural enzymes, proteins etc that ther body can utilise in the fight against infection. Cooking denatures protein chemical bonds leaving residual by products of those originally present. Its interesting you mention the infected cut. I read an article online somewhere, where a lady who already eats garlic regularly had a bacterial infection in her thumb. She ate more garlic, hoping this would help, but the infection remained. After two weeks without improvement and still a sore thumb she decided to apply garlic directly to the thumb. The next morning the swelling had reduced in size by half and the infection was cleared up inside 3 days. No prescribed antibiotics...but rather natural antibiotics. Interesting stuff Cheers Mark rawfood, " Roger Haeske " <roger@s...> wrote: > Nice post Mark. Your post had better information than all the sites and > books I was reading on Garlic last night and this morning. The info was > good because it was combined with your experience. > > As far as the colds theory, it is a common theory in the raw foods > movement. The belief is that if your body is internally clean that > viruses have nothing to feed on and therefore you won't get sick. Look > into the Arnold Ehret books the " Mucousless Diet Healing System " . He > blames mucous as a major culprit in causing disease, colds etc. His book > is from near the turn of the century and so it has lots of very old > data. Viruses supposedly feed off of the junk and mucous that is inside > our bodies, left over by poor eating habits and who knows what else. > > Of course, I am aware of the more accepted reasons for colds. But then > again I am a raw foodist and I have seen the amazing benefits of the raw > diet. A while back I cut my hand very badly and needed 18 stitches. The > doctors prescribed some kind of antibiotic to fight infection. I never > took any and had no infection problems. I also removed the stitches > myself saving myself at least two extra expensive doctor visits. > > Do you know for a 1.5 hour procedure in the hospital emergency room I > was billed $1,000 US. I think that was totally ludicrous. Now my father > tells me I didn't even need to get stitches. In the old days, he said > people wouldn't get stitches; they just deal with the problem on their > own. What he means by old days was when he was a child in the 40's and > 50's. > > I learned many years ago on my first attempts at the raw diet that > infections clear up on while going raw. I had previous experience not to > worry about infections. Now I can also supplement my diet with more > garlic to fight in those regards. Many people in the Natural Hygiene > Movement are against eating any kind of spicy food including garlic. > They feel these spicy and hot foods irritate our bodies and are > basically not good for the body. > > I just happen to love hot and spicy food so I haven't dropped that habit > as of yet. There may be good reasons to continue along these lines. Then > you have the people like David Wolfe who recommends spicy foods to > improve the health. The best method is trial and error. > > I know as a young child I hated hot foods. If I hated it then maybe it > is not natural for people to eat it. Then again, God put all these > wonderful herbs down here on our planet and maybe they are here to help > us heal. There are many questions to be asked and answered. > > I read somewhere that it is estimated that garlic has about 1% of the > antibiotic power of penicillin. I had about 6 cloves yesterday. I had a > little garlic breath this morning, but nothing major. > > Thanks again for your posts Mark. > > Roger Haeske > > P.S. Would you like to Discover the Easiest and Most Powerful Peak > Performance Program on the planet? This program will quickly improve all > areas of your life, is customized to your personality and circumstances, > and effortlessly overcomes previous negative beliefs and conditioning. > Go to http://www.superbeing.com/magicquestions.htm for your free report. > > placebos4u [mark@t...] > Saturday, May 18, 2002 5:24 AM > rawfood > Re: [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. > > Hi Roger > > I must say I have never heard of a cold described as you have > described it..<<Now I've heard that getting a cold is actually just a > detoxification of the body mostly a house cleaning.>> > > According to what I was taught at university during my biological > sciences degree a cold is an infection caused by a virus, and most > commonly from the group called Rhinoviridae. Most of the symptoms of > the cold are due to your own immune system responding to the > invasion. The greater the numbers of viruses the harder the immune > system works, making you feel very ill. Following this a secondary > infection of the bacterial sort often occurs. This results as your > immune system is working so hard making antibodies against the virus > that bacteria can reproduce more successfully. Damaging toxic > compounds are produced by bacteria, so you dont want this. > As far as I'm aware I still do get the viral infection but my immune > system is capable of knocking it on the head before the virus takes > over and builds into great numbers. The reason for this is that the > sulpher compounds contained in garlic penetrate well into the bodies > tissues and remain there. As garlic contains anti-fungal, anti- viral, > and anti-bacterial compounds any microorganisms invading the body are > killed off in the first instance by the sulpher compounds and then > secondarily by your own immune system. This means your immune system > is still working and responding. Without your immune system properly > functioning the virus would eventually take over as the sulpher > compounds will only slow the replication, not competely stop it. So > this means that a regular garlic eater has a dual protection system > to microorganism invasion. This is why I can feel the cold coming on, > but it never gets anywhere. > > According to research I have read raw garlic has a multitude of > health benefits. Population research shows major reductions in > various cancers of garlic eaters. This is especially true of stomach > and intestinal cancers. Blood is thinned by garlic, supposedly making > the blood less viscous and allowing more easy passage through > vessels. This means reduced chance of stroke, heart attack etc. > The smell associated with garlic comes from Allicin, which is a very > strong antibiotic, capable of killing Anthrax as far as I'm aware. > This antibiotic is formed after cutting the garlic when allinase > reacts with allian (spelling?), to produce the sulpher based > antibiotic. Sulper compounds often smell...recall rotten egg gas at > school. Or digging into the dark mud on a flat beach with little > tidal movement. Anaerobic bacteria often produce sulpher products > from metabolism. > > I recently read in a scientific magazine that the Swedish army > conducted a test on their soldiers using garlic. The soldiers were > becoming ill as a result of tick bites. Soldiers placed on a regular > garlic diet were not being infected by ticks and not becoming ill. > Vets also tell dog owners to feed it to their dogs to stop fleas, and > according to a friend of mine it works, not too surprising though. > > There is no doubt your raw food diet will give you much greater > health benefit and protection than cooked or processed food. Keep up > the garlic, it wont kill you. :-) > > Cheers > Mark > > > > > > -- In rawfood, " Roger Haeske " <roger@s...> wrote: > > Interesting post Mark. I've been on the all raw food diet for about > 9 > > months now. I have had a couple of colds in the wintertime. I have > been > > eating lots of raw garlic though not quite as much as you. There are > > days that I have around five cloves but not necessarily every day. > > > > Now I've heard that getting a cold is actually just a > detoxification of > > the body mostly a house cleaning. In addition, it is possible that > not > > getting a cold is a bad sign. When the body is too weak it will not > have > > enough elimination strength to give you a cold. I've read a story > or two > > of people never getting sick and thinking they are healthy and then > find > > one day that they have Cancer. > > > > I of course would prefer never to get a cold. I have heard of one > long > > time raw foodist who hasn't had a cold in 8 years. I know my colds > have > > been much shorter and less intense so far on the all raw diet. I'll > see > > what happens in a year or two of doing it, once my body has > detoxified > > much more. > > > > But I'll try having lots of garlic every single day and see if I > notice > > any changes. I probably average around 3 cloves per day as we > speak. By > > the way it doesn't make me smell. I blend it in to a dish I am > > preparing. I somehow think that being raw affects this smell aspect > of > > the garlic. > > > > I used to take garlic pearls many years ago and I would sometimes > sweat > > garlic. I don't have any problems like that with raw garlic. > > > > Roger Haeske > > P.S. Would you like to Discover the Easiest and Most Powerful Peak > > Performance Program on the planet? This program will quickly > improve all > > areas of your life, is customized to your personality and > circumstances, > > and effortlessly overcomes previous negative beliefs and > conditioning. > > Go to http://www.superbeing.com/magicquestions.htm for your free > report. > > > > placebos4u [mark@t...] > > Friday, May 17, 2002 4:43 PM > > rawfood > > [Raw Food] Advocate of the stinky bulb. > > > > > > Hi folks. > > I have decided to write this to tell people of the amazing change > > regular raw garlic consumption has made to my life. I have no idea > if > > the same results would take place in all people. > > > > About 5 years ago I was fed up with catching colds that would turn > > into nasty viral/bacterial illnesses, making me cough > uncontrollably > > until incredibly sore. Muscles would ache, body would feel shocking > > and this would drag on for nearly 2 weeks at times. I worked around > > the public 7 days a week, and I guess was always exposed to germs. > > I had read or heard somewhere that garlic was supposed to help in > > dealing with infections. I was not one for taking a lot of notice > > about these kinds of things. My diet at the time was reasonably > > healthy, but still the colds would develop, along with gastro > > sicknesses at times too. > > I hopped onto the internet and searched for garlic links. I was > > surprised to read pages that everyday people like myself had posted > > explaining how garlic had incredibly changed their health status. > > That was it for me, I had to set the trial into action. > > Well, the trial has never ended. For five years I have consumed on > > average 4-5 raw cloves of garlic a day. There have been some days > > where I have not eaten it but these are rare. I eat it at tea time > > along with the rest of the family. We have all benefited greatly. > If > > one chooses to eat garlic at meal time, then its best that all do > for > > obvious reasons, unless you can tolerate the smell. By the next > > morning the smell after a shower has gone, in us anyway. It may > > become noticed if you sweat a lot or possibly have oily skin. > > > > As far as I'm concerned the health benefits far outweigh the smell > > which can result. > > > > After starting my garlic consumption, which I hated, because I > > couldnt stand it raw I have not had a single illness of any sort. I > > have experienced the feeling of an oncoming infection, but thats > all > > I experience. I feel a little bit tired and down for a few hours, > > although not to the point where I cant work. Basically I may have > one > > slightly run down day, where I feel a bit tired and odd. These are > > very rare, and occur 2-3 times a year, generally when the kids > catch > > a cold, which quickly clears up in them. Its as thought the cold > > passes through me and is gone before it develops into anything. > > I dont catch any colds, nor do I get any kind of gastric problems. > > I used to experience Tinea also during the summer, and I no longer > > get that. I used to do regular trips to the dentist, and have > > fillings. I no longer get any tooth decay at all. I am slightly > > overweight, and checkups at the doctor reveal excellent blood > > pressure and no cholesterol problems. The doctor is amazed that I > > dont have blood pressure considering I have a fairly physically > > inactive job, and dont get involved in sport. > > > > I have virtually forgotten what it is like to get sick. Garlic is > an > > absolutely amazing plant, that may reduce or eliminate so many > health > > problems in people if only they could overcome the smell stigma! > Just > > dont eat it before socialising is the way I look at it. Its rare > that > > people say they can smell it on me. Anyway who cares when life can > be > > illness free. Stink and ENJOY! :-) > > > > > > Cheers > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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