garlic good or bad??

July 4, 2002

The more I read the more confused I am.

Source: From a lecture by Dr. Robert C Beck, DSc, given at the Whole Life Expo,

Seattle, WA, US

GARLIC - TOXIC SHOCK! Reprinted from Nexus Feb/Mar 2001

The reason garlic is so toxic, the sulphone hydroxyl ion penetrates the

blood-brain barrier, just like DMSO, and is a specific poison for higher-life

forms and brain cells. We discovered this, much to our horror, when I (Bob Beck,

DSc) was the world's largest manufacturer of ethical EEG feedback equipment.

We'd have people come back from lunch that looked clinically dead on an

encephalograph, which we used to calibrate their progress. " Well, what

happened? " " Well, I went to an Italian restaurant and there was some garlic in

my salad dressing! " So we had them sign things that they wouldn't touch garlic

before classes or we were wasting their time, their money and my time.

I guess some of you who are pilots or have been in flight tests...I was in

flight test engineering in Doc Hallan's group in the 1950's. The flight surgeon

would come around every month and remind all of us: " Don't you dare touch any

garlic 72 hours before you fly one of our airplanes, because it'll double or

triple your reaction time. You're three times slower than you would be if you'd

not had a few drops of garlic. "

Well, we didn't know why for 20 years later, until I owned the Alpha-Metrics

Corporation. We were building biofeed-back equipment and found out that garlic

usually desynchronises your brain waves.

So I funded a study at Stanford and, sure enough, they found that it's a poison.

You can rub a clove of garlic on your foot - a you can smell it shortly later on

your wrists. So it penetrates the body. This is why DMSO smells a lot like

garlic: that sulphone hydroxyl ion penetrates all the barriers including the

corpus callosum in the brain.

Any of you who are organic gardeners know that if you don't want to use DDT,

garlic will kill anything in the way of insects.

Now, most people have heard most of their lives garlic is good for you, and we

put those people in the same class of ignorance as the mothers who at the turn

of the century would buy morphine sulphate in the drugstore and give it to their

babies to put'em to sleep.

If you have any patients who have low-grade headaches or attention deficit

disorder, they can't quite focus on the computer in the after-noon, just do an

experiment - you owe it to yourselves. Take these people off garlic and see how

much better they get, very very shortly. And then let them eat a little garlic

after about three weeks. They'll say " My God, I had no idea that this was the

cause of our problems. " And this includes the de-skunked garlic's, Kyolic, some

of the other products.

Very unpopular, but I've got to tell you the truth.

and then I read an article by Dr. Robert C Atkins (who runs the Atkins Center

for Complementary Medicine in New York City) extolling garlic and recommends

taking 2,300-2,400 mg every day.

So am I doing the right thing or not.???? I'll probably wish I had not asked but

has anyone got any further comments?

July 5, 2002

Lets look at it another way. Garlic may be toxic, but it's benefits are that

it is toxic enough to kill off pathogens that are even more toxic. For

example, staphylococcus can produce toxins that can cause all kinds of

problems, from toxic shock syndrome, to food poisoning, to septicemia, to

flesh eating infections, to all kinds of neurological problems, etc. The

toxic effects of garlic according to the article are certainly not as

serious as the toxic effects of staphylococcus. And garlic is toxic to

staphylococcus. Which would you rather get rid of, the garlic, or the

staphylococcus? An additional benefit of garlic is that it can penetrate

into places that staphylococcus can be hiding that are even inaccessible to

antibiotics. Because garlic is toxic to a wide variety of harmful pathogens,

it seems like it's benefits outweigh it's deficits.

Certainly if you apply enough garlic to your rose bush, it will kill the

rose bush. However, apply the right amount and you rid the rose bush of

aphids, and the rose bush flourishes. Whether or not garlic is toxic to rose

bushes, it certainly has beneficial effects. I think the same applies to

people.

One additional thought - many people do not metabolize sulfur based amino

acids very well, and garlic is loaded with them. I think this may be one of

the reasons why their " studies " showed that it caused problems for some

people. Some of those sulfur based amino acids can become neurotoxins if not

properly broken down by the body; for example, cysteine. However, it isn't

the sulfur based amino acids that's the problem, it's other heavy metals and

toxins that interfere with the bodies enzymes necessary to utilize the

sulfur based amino acids. Clear the heavy metals and toxins, and then the

body actually benefits from the sulfur based amino acids like cysteine,

which is used by the body to manufacture glutithione, which is one of the

most beneficial antioxidants. On the other hand, excess cysteine can cause

the very same symptoms that the article mentions. And garlic is loaded with

sulfur based amino acids.

But rather than getting rid of the garlic, it seems more prudent to get rid

of the heavy metals and other toxins. It's a matter of figuring out what the

actual cause of a symptom is, and resolving that, rather than just blaming

the trigger. For example, just because some people are allergic to certain

things doesn't mean we should eliminate those things for everyone. It would

be far preferable to eliminate the allergies in the people who have them

with some form of meridian therapy, such as NAET or Bioset, then to

eliminate those allergens from everyone.

Linda Jones