Posted by bleauberry on January 15, 2010, at 16:42:58
In reply to Garlic extract decrease MAO levels, posted by Netch on January 14, 2010, at 12:03:22
All I know for sure is that for the entire year of 2009, the best I felt was when I was taking garlic supplements called Allicin from Dr. Zhang.
I was taking it as one of the herbs in a combination to treat Lyme disease and its coinfections. Garlic happens to be one of the most potent antibiotics, antifungals, antiprotozoans on the planet, with a wide range of targets.
The problem was the smell. The de-odorized garlic supplements are useless. It's the smelly part where the potency is. I tried some very expensive de-odorized ones called Allimax and Allimed...tons of internet hype on them...and they were absolutely worthless. Not even an entire bottle in 3 days could match what 3 pills of Dr. Zhang's Allicin could do. The de-odorized ones might as well have been sugar pills. Junk.
So odor is a problem. Zhang claims that taking Chlorophil capsules reduces the odor.
Back to garlic. What I experienced was...better sleep, better mood, smoother energy, anti-anxiety, and just an overall feeling of being a bit better than I was before. At 3 caps 3 times per day, I was literally wreaking odor from 10 feet away. But even 1 cap with dinner feels beneficial, though not enough potency for infections.
Now that I think back on it, the relaxed improved smoother mood on garlic felt similar to very low dose Parnate. (I'm very sensitive, so low dose Parnate to me is a lot) What I'm saying is, yeah, now that I think about it, it did have the same feel as an MAOI. It was in that family sort of.
Don't waste time on odorless garlic no matter what it is you take garlic for. If eating it, cooking destroys it. So unless you chop it up when cooking is done, or eat cloves raw, it really isn't going to do much good. At least the equivalent of one raw clove a day is needed for any benefit. Infections of all kinds need more.
I did notice psychiatric improvement on garlic supplements, but couldn't quite figure out why. I just knew I was feeling it, and it was a weird mystery. Who would have ever figured.
Tumeric on the other hand I did not find helpful. Most people do.
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