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Introduction
 More than 350 scientific studies by major universities have been completed on Aged Garlic Extract. These studies have focused on aspects in cardiovascular disease, immune stimulation, cognitive effects, liver function and anti-tumor effects.
Can aged garlic extract really help diabetics preserve their vision? People who have diabetes often suffer from damage to their eyes, kidneys, blood vessels and skin. This is caused by high sugar levels in a process called glycation. Researchers at Manchester University in England have already shown that garlic, in liquid form, may be a potent block on glycation in the lab. Now the same researchers will study the effect of liquid Kyolic® Aged Garlic Extract in a clinical trial involving 70 patients with Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of diabetes.
The researchers are looking at whether a natural product can help prevent diabetes or play a role in the treatment of the disease. "One of the other things that people with diabetes have is increased free radical activity which could have a role in these complications," said Dr. Nessar Ahmed, molecular biologist at the university's department of biological sciences. Aged garlic extract's antioxidant compounds fight free radicals which damage healthy cells, and have been widely studied.
Aged garlic extract is produced by a long extraction process, up to two years, creating an odorless product rich in active, bioavailable compounds. This extract is standardized to ensure consistent levels and ratios of these unique compounds. In fact, some of these beneficial compounds are not found in regular raw garlic or other garlic supplements.
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Wondrous Garlic
The following are just some of the best benefits of Aged Garlic Extract:
- Anti-viral agent.
- Fungicidal.
- Anti-bacterial agent.
- Lowers total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL (bad cholesterol), and homocysteine.
- Increases HDL (good cholesterol).
- Reduces platelet aggregation and adhesion (blood thinning effect).
- Lowers blood pressure.
- Stimulates blood circulation.
- Reduces LDL oxidation (reduces stickiness).
- Reduces oxidative damage in the body caused by smoking.
- Inhibits the rate of progression of coronary calcium formation.
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Cancer Fighting Garlic
People in Mediterranean countries have been using chopped up garlic for hundreds of years to defeat surface tumors. Make a poultice of garlic and castor oil, paste it onto virtually any skin tumor, and the tumor will shrivel and die (or fall off) in a matter of days.
This is nothing new to naturopaths, but it is still shocking to Western doctors. It is shocking because they are so indoctrinated now by pharmaceutical medicine. But the real news here is that the active ingredient in garlic is being used intravenously. Researchers are binding allicin to an antibody that binds with tumor cells, thus delivering the cancer-busting allicin payload directly to the tumor. It is seemingly the perfect blend of herbs and Western medicine: a natural substance delivered to tumor cells via a Western-developed targeting system. In reality, though, you don't need the targeting at all: just eat (or drink) raw garlic
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Anti-septic & Anti Microbial
The use of garlic as an antiseptic was in great demand during World War I. In 1916, the U.K. government asked for tons of the bulbs, offering a shilling a pound for as much as could be produced. As each pound generally represents about 20 bulbs, and five pounds divided up into cloves and planted will yield about 38 pounds at the end of the growing season, garlic was a remunerative crop.
The American Society for Microbiology's Anti-microbial Agents and Chemotherapy has confirmed the chemotherapeutic effects of garlic. The researchers were able to study how garlic works at the molecular level using allicin. It explained how allicin fights infection, supporting the notion that garlic is an excellent, though smelly, natural anti-microbial drug that can disable an unusually wide variety of infectious organisms.
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Garlic In Pregnancy
New research shows that taking garlic during pregnancy can cut the risk of pre-eclampsia (raised blood pressure and protein retained in the urine). Studies reveal that garlic may help to boost the birth weight of babies destined to be dangerously small. This research was carried out by Dr. D. Sooranna, Ms. J. Hirani and Dr. I. Das in the Academic Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London. They concluded that although pre-eclampsia and growth retardation are complex multifactoral conditions, taking standardized garlic tablets throughout pregnancy may decrease the chances of these types of complications at birth. They focused on growth retarded babies and pre-eclampsia, a potentially dangerous condition for mother and baby which occurs in about one in 10 pregnancies. Experiments by the research team showed that adding extracts of garlic to cells from the placenta of women likely to suffer from these conditions stimulated growth quickly. Furthermore, the activity of key enzymes that are reduced in abnormal pregnancies were significantly increased when garlic was added.
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Garlic As An Anti-biotic
 The antibiotic properties of garlic have earned it the popular name "nature's antibiotic." This amazing plant can provide a whole arsenal of activity against fungi, yeast and viral infections. The anti-fungal properties of garlic have long been used in folk medicine for the treatment of Candida infections, especially those of the skin. Growth and respiration are also inhibited by garlic juice in Candida albicans, Trichophyton cerebriforme, and T. granulosum. At a dilution of 1:1,000, garlic juice had no harmful effect on tissue cultures, such as chicken embryos or kidney cells; however, it completely inhibited the growth of yeast.
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Garlic & Heart Disease
More than 375 scientific studies have been completed on aged garlic extract, done in major universities and research centers. These studies have focused on various aspects of garlic's health benefits including the reduction of multiple risk factors such as cholesterol and high blood pressure lowering effects; homocysteine control; inhibition of LDL oxidation (reducing sticky cholesterol); blood-thinning effect; and stimulating blood circulation by widening blood vessels. In addition, other aged garlic extract research has concentrated on immune enhancement, improving memory (prevention of Alzheimer's), protecting liver function and anti-cancer effects. Patients in trials had significantly high S-allyl cysteine (SAC) level in the blood among the patients in the Aged Garlic Extract group compared to the placebo. SAC is non-odorous and one of the active compounds in Aged Garlic Extract. High SAC levels are produced by a long aging extraction process. Aged Garlic Extract is standardized with SAC: a real, bioavailable active compound, unlike other garlic supplements.
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The Active Ingredient Of Garlic
The active properties of garlic come from a pungent, volatile, essential oil called allicin. This oil is responsible for garlic's distinctive penetrating odor (and, presumably, the garlic plant uses allicin as a form of protection from pests and parasites) The odor is so diffusive, in fact, that even when crushed garlic is rubbed into the soles of the feet, its odor is exhaled by the lungs. A typical dosage of garlic is 900 milligrams daily of a garlic powder extract standardized to contain 1.3 percent alliin, providing about 12,000 micrograms of alliin daily. However, a great deal of controversy exists over the proper dosage and form of garlic. One or two raw garlic cloves per day are adequate for most purposes, but virtual trade wars have taken place over the potency and effectiveness of various dried, aged or deodorized garlic preparations
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