How Garlic Is Good for You:
What Does Garlic Do for Your Health?
Garlic lives in the allium class of plants, alongside onions, 
leeks, scallions and shallots.
Garlic contains compounds like allicin and organosulfur, which are phytochemicals responsible for garlic’s powerful nutritional properties. Allicin turns into sulfenic acid, once ingested, and ultimately protects against pathogens, parasites, infections and diseases. Including cancer (Shhhh!!).
As a matter of fact, 4,525 (at last count) studies on garlic from the National Library of Medicine indicate that garlic treats over 150 chronic diseases, successfully. Put that in your vape pen and …vape it.
Garlic is also known as Allium sativum (Man, that woman has some seriously bad allium sativum breath!).
What Garlic Is Good For, Medicinally
Garlic is medicine. Really good medicine!
The list of garlic health benefits is long. So long, in fact, that I don’t feel like typing it out. Just kidding. Here is a list for you of 14 uses for garlic as medicine, and why it would probably be a good idea to eat it every day.
1. Garlic is good for high blood pressure
Actually, garlic is bad for high blood pressure. I would hate to meet garlic in a dark alley, if I was high blood pressure, in fact! If you love high blood pressure, stay away from garlic. Vampire or not.
2. Garlic to reduce cholesterol
Call on garlic if you need to reduce cholesterol. There are few things as effective, due to it’s strong antioxidant qualities.
Use black garlic, if possible. And if you mix it with lemon juice, garlic is even more potent for reducing cholesterol and improving heart health and other things we’ll come to further down the list.
3. Garlic helps weight loss
“What??! Garlic helps weight loss? But how??”, you’re probably not asking so exuberantly, if at all. But I’ll explain, because it is still good to know, and you’ll be glad I did.
Garlic helps weight loss by breaking down stored fats, as well as stimulating the satiety hormone, which reduces the desire to binge eat and to crave sugary junk foods.
Garlic also boosts metabolism by releasing the neurotransmitter norepinephrine. Garlic is also a diuretic, relieving excess fluid buildup in body tissues.
4. Garlic lowers blood sugar
There are compounds in garlic such as allicin (which has been mentioned), allyl propyl disulfide and S-allyl cysteine sulfoxide. These increase active insulin in the blood. Garlic lowers blood sugar via these compounds impeding the liver’s tendency to inhibit the activation of insulin, making active insulin more available to the rest of the body.
5. Garlic for inflammation
We most certainly classify garlic as an anti-inflammatory, among other foods with excellent anti-inflammatory characteristics. The elite among this group of foods / spices are ginger and turmeric, as well as garlic, for inflammation. They contain quercetin, which is an anti-inflammatory flavonoid, which aids our bodies in fighting inflammation.
6. Garlic for your immune system
Using garlic for your immune system is like using water to make something wet. Don’t stop eating colorful vegetables, mushrooms, blueberries, nuts and fish, though! Foods containing lots of vitamins A, C, D and zinc (garlic is also pretty high in A, C and zinc, as well as K and B) are all just as beneficial as garlic, among the best things for “boosting” your immune system.
7. Garlic helps hair growth
Whaaaaat??!
Yes indeed. Garlic helps hair growth when applied topically to the scalp by fortifying the structure of the existing hair shaft, itself, as well as cultivating new hair. The selenium and sulphur that garlic contains are primarily responsible for garlic’s ability to help combat balding. 
8. Garlic for heart health
In addition to most of the other things on this list, which will inevitably affect your heart in a positive way, garlic also reduces the buildup of triglycerides, which are what body fat is essentially made of.
Taking garlic for heart health can significantly reduce the likelihood of a person having a heart attack, which is always nice.
Garlic reduces the formation of artery plaque, as well. Artery plaque is a buildup of fatty deposits which disrupt or can even block blood circulation from the heart to all of the other places blood needs to get to.
Garlic softens blood vessels and strengthens arteries.
Two other cool attributes in relation to garlic for heart health are garlic’s ability to aid in heart attack recovery, and the simple fact that it is very low in calories.
9. Garlic for viruses
Yes, garlic fights viruses. It is likely the most powerful natural antibiotic known of, or at least the most diverse.
How garlic fights viruses is by turning allicen into sulfenic acid, which eliminates free radicals faster than you can say garlic is awesome. It guards against viruses, pathogenic bacteria, parasites, yeast infections, and even diabetes and cancer (Shhhh!!).
11. Garlic for fever
Garlic is one of the best-known natural remedies for a fever.
This begs the question, “What do you do if you have garlic fever?”. I guess you’re eatin’ garlic, either way.
10. Garlic to increase testosterone
My GOD is there ever a lack of this in the world today! Have you noticed? Remind me to do an article on testosterone.
Garlic increases testosterone, but if you overdue it, it will actually have the opposite of the desired effect.
Testosterone is responsible for maintaining bone density, muscle strength (and mass), fat distribution, as well as the obvious sex drive and sperm production.
Women, don’t worry. Eating more garlic will not cause you to grow sideburns or any extra appendages. If it does, I apologize. Unless that’s your aim. In which case you are very welcome.
12. Garlic for infection
Garlic Can Kill 14 Different Infections! So Why Don’t Doctors Recommend It?
Garlic is a very effective natural antibiotic. And unlike the antibiotics the doctor pedals, garlic is able to fight a lot more types of infection, but without messing up your system.
13. Garlic for digestion
Garlic can help with an array of intestinal issues. Dysentery, diarrhea and colitis, as well as playing a powerful role in driving away parasitic worms.
Garlic leaves the good bacteria in the intestine alone, while destroying the harmful ones.
As well as aiding with digestion, garlic can also relieve stomach gas.
14. Garlic: natural blood thinner
Garlic is a good natural blood thinner. In fact, it is one of the best natural blood thinners you are likely to find.
Did you know that caucasian people are more prone to developing thick blood than darker-skinned people? Where’s my white privilege now, huh?!
If you have the rare susceptibility to the gastrointestinal upset that can affect certain people after taking garlic for viscous blood, you can use ginger or turmeric, instead. Turmeric and ginger also have amazing and diverse health benefits.
Other Things Garlic Is Good For
Some other things garlic is good for medicinally are toothaches, heartburn, and the cure / prevention of many diseases and infections which are too numerous to list here.
7 Major Diseases Cured by Using Garlic
What Is the Best Way to Eat Garlic?
The best way to eat garlic for health benefits, or to maximize the benefits of eating garlic, rather, is to smash a clove of garlic (you don’t need a sledge hammer–you can probably use your thumb) and wait 5 minutes. This allows the allicin to become activated. If you recall, allicin is one of the two main phytochemical components responsible for how garlic is good for you.
Garlic Breath
- You can alleviate the strong taste of garlic by chewing anise seeds or parsley leaves after eating garlic.
- Apples, mint, and lettuce contain chemicals that can fight the bad-breath-causing compounds in garlic and other pungent foods.
I Now Conclude
Well, there is your list of 14 uses for garlic as medicine, taking you through how garlic is good for you and what garlic does for your health.
What a superhero of a herb!
I nearly forgot – if you simply can’t stand the taste of eating raw garlic for health purposes, there are less pungent ways to get the health benefits of garlic in you.
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Cheers.
Awsome. My father in law was sick with cancer, and he actually ate a clove of garlic everyday to help fight his desease. There are a lot of good health benefits from eating it, and you can also use it as a pain killer for toothaches as well. I didnt think to many people besides myself and my father in law knew just how much of a help garlic would be in his fight against cancer.
Thank you, Kiersti. It’s a big bonus that you love garlic! Ginger and turmeric are great, too.
As for hair growth, I have been using aloe vera (sometimes), but mostly black seed oil mixed with castor oil, and to pretty good effect. I have a before picture and am going to take an after one soon and append it to the article on hair loss.
Cheers!
Hello there. This is a fantastic article. So I like anything garlic because it has a great flavor. However, I had no idea it was actually beneficial to your health. I used to believe that garlic was extremely harmful to one’s health. I’m glad I found this article because now I know. I have a lot of health issues, so knowing that garlic can help is fantastic. My favorite benefit is that it aids in hair growth and weight loss. Two things for which I am constantly on the lookout for new products. Thank you for writing this article. I’ll be sharing.
Isn’t it great?
Yes, that makes sense that it would help breathing when sick.
Thanks for sharing that,
Garlic must be one of the most important plants for healing purposes. It can be used for so many situations that it’s ridiculous. Just reading your list it makes you feel how important it is. I may have missed it but garlic has one more use that I didn’t see in your list. Although not through eating, its smell can help a stuffy nose, especially at night when you go to sleep. Many times when my kids were sick I would give them to breath some garlic and this helped them breathe easier during the night.
Hey, Markus. A definite bonus that you love garlic! No maybe about it, my friend–it will help you!
And also for the high blood pressure, if you haven’t read this one, you will want to: https://un-pharma.com/what-is-…
Hi Craig! Interesting reading you have there! I have some issues with my blood pressure and was looking for natural ways to decrease it. Then I did read you post and was amazed about all those garlic effect and positive effect on the blood pressure. And I love garlic! 😀 So it sounds good, maybe I should try it..? Cheers!
It is so amazing!
Huh, I did not know that there were so many benefits that came with eating garlic. I would usually put it in my eggs just because it tastes amazing but after reading this article, I see that it did not go to waste. I am for sure going to continue putting garlic in my eggs.