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Posted 12/5/2016 12:10 AM (GMT 0)
I realize garlic is effective for Lyme. How do you guys eat it? And how much of it do you eat?
Posted 12/5/2016 12:18 AM (GMT 0)
I buy organic bulbs, or out of my garden in season. It can be eaten raw. I personally use a great deal of it in cooking and hope that I get enough benefit from it heated, because I prefer it that way.

But, you can put it in veggie smoothies and juicings raw. Cloves vary in size and strength, but a measured tsp. or so would be good per 8 oz of liquidated juice to start with and move up to an entire bulb if you want.

Depends on how much you enjoy the taste, I guess.

I read you can herx from it, given you've eaten quite a lot, so like any of it, increase a little at a time, or just cut back if you do feel a herx.

Post Edited (julymorning) : 12/4/2016 5:22:28 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 12/5/2016 3:50 AM (GMT 0)
I put mine on sourdough toast. Gluten free bread would work. I toast my bread. I use Kerrygold butter, unsalted on my toast. I finely chop my garlic and eat it raw on the toast.

I cook with a lot of garlic.

I have a girlfriend and she cleans a clove of garlic - not to be confused with a bulb, which has many cloves - and she swallows it like a pill. She never smells of garlic!

My husband stinks of garlic a lot. He eats about 3 cloves a day on his egg scramble. He has everything on his egg scramble along with the garlic.

I forgot to mention, you will find your limit on garlic. Once you get diarrhea, back off a little. That is your limit for garlic.

It definitely will kill all kinds of yuckies in your intestinal tract. My limit is 4 cloves a day.
Posted 12/5/2016 2:16 PM (GMT 0)
I get Allicin Max from Amazon. 180mg of pure Allicin in pill form. Always best to eat the real thing but this is definitely the next best thing! I was doing 2 pills 2x/day for a while and it definitely helped.
Posted 12/5/2016 3:45 PM (GMT 0)
When it is not socially acceptable for me to eat garlic, I take Kyolic garlic capsules.
Posted 12/5/2016 4:12 PM (GMT 0)
Oooo, you speaka my language...I Love Gahlic! I cook with several fat cloves of garlic daily...when I had mononucleosis at 19, I ate 3 fat cloves of garlic every AM with a banana and yogurt...tasted really strong, but the banana buffered a lot of the sharpness..anyway, did that for a while and shortly thereafter, doc told me the mono disappeared on its own...he was puzzled....I do think to this day- 33 yrs.ago- that the garlic was the thing that nixed it because I wasn't taking any antibiotics- was just being monitored every other week with blood tests and keeping an eye on the growth of all the lymph nodes....Yay for gahlic!!
Posted 12/5/2016 5:01 PM (GMT 0)
Now that I have discovered enemas, I am going to try a garlic enema, my tummy isn't happy with garlic unless it is cooked. I bought one bottle of Zhang's allicin and REALLY liked that. Just too darned expensive. I roast my garlic in olive oil - YUM! I am not sure if all of the benefits are the same when it is cooked or not. Need to read up on that. PeteZa, what brand do you like of the Kyolic garlic capsules.
Posted 12/5/2016 8:53 PM (GMT 0)
Before i was diagnosed with lyme i would eat raw garlic it really helped with my headaches then i bought odorless garlic from vitaminas world that really helped at some point i felt great like i was getting rid of what ever i had but it only did so much before my symptoms came back
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