20 Feb, 2009

The Effects of Garlic on Atherosclerosis

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The specialist found that the most important reason of the atherosclerosis is oxidative stress. Atherosclerosis causes heart attack.

Turkish specialist researched the effect of the garlic on atherosclerosis. During four months of  their study, they feed a group of rabbit with high cholesterol and another group of rabbit with high cholesterol and garlic extract.

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At the end of four months, they didn’t observe any bad effect of the cholesterol on the rabbits which had eaten garlic extract with high cholesterol, but they observed atherosclerosis on the rabbits which had eaten only high cholesterol.

Also they observe that if the rabbits which have atherosclerosis are feed with garlic extract, there is a considerable decrease of atherosclerosis. Garlic extract reduce the oxidative stress and prevents atherosclerosis.

Garlic extract also regulate the lipid contant of the blood, increase antioxidant power of the buddy and prevent prostate cancer.

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1 Response to "The Effects of Garlic on Atherosclerosis"

1 | Darnell Clayton

February 21st, 2009 at 12:10 pm

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Thanks for this wonderful article. I love garlic and knowing its benefits now makes me smile. Have a nice day…

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