Could garlic be your heart’s best friend?
Finally, a pill has been found that works much better than “placebo.”
Maybe that’s because this pill isn’t something concocted by Big Pharma.
It’s a supplement derived from one of Mother Nature’s creations instead — an herb you’d probably rather take in pill form.
That’s right. I’m talking about old-fashioned garlic!
And a new study has found that it can slow and even help reverse heart disease.
The research, done at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, involved 72 patients with blockages of at least one major cardiac artery. Half of them were told to take an aged garlic supplement twice a day, the other half a placebo.
After a year, CAT scans showed that those given the garlic had reductions of plaque in their arteries. The ones who took the placebo only got worse.
“Our study demonstrated the benefit of this supplement on both plaque changes over time and preventing new plaque formation,” said the lead researcher, cardiologist Matthew Budoff, M.D.
One effect of garlic, Dr. Budoff said, is to lower blood levels of homocysteine, a marker for heart disease.
He recommends you take 1,200 mg of garlic a day, split between morning and evening doses. Or, you can eat garlic in natural form, but as he noted, it’s harder to measure the amount of nutrients that will give you.
But whether garlic pills would be just as effective in warding off vampires is another question entirely.
Sources:
“Garlic reverses heart disease: UCLA study” Lynn Allison, May 6, 2014, Newsmax health, newsmaxhealth.com
