Garlic doesn’t just make food delicious.

It can help heal your gut.

It’s been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years. Modern studies show antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antitumor, anti-obesity, antidiabetic, antimicrobial, antiallergic, cardioprotective, hepatoprotective and many other beneficial effects.

Garlic has potent antibacterial properties including against a wide variety of bacteria such as salmonella, staphylococcus, streptococcus, klebsiella, proteus, bacillus, clostridium and even drug-resistant strains of E. coli.

These properties are attributed to its ability to disrupts enzymes that maintain DNA, disrupt and prevent biofilm formation, inhibit adhesion of bacteria and downregulate production of virulence factors.

It’s shown potent antifungal activity against candida albicans, cryptococcus neoformans, trichophyton, epidermophyton and microsporum by reacting with thiol groups in essential enzymes, disrupting their function.

It’s antiparasitic and has shown the ability to fight off protozoan parasites such as entamoeba histolytica and giardia lamblia by inhibiting cysteine proteinase activity.

Through its selective antimicrobial properties as well as its prebiotic properties, garlic is known to enhance levels of probiotic bacteria like lactobacilli, positively modulate overall gut microbiome composition and short chain fatty acid production.

Garlic stimulates immunological responses as well helping boost overall immune function.

The presence of organosulfur compounds, phenolics and selenium compounds in garlic contributes to its antioxidant effects.

Garlic is a certified gut healing substance.

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- Nick
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