timaca
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If you use garlic supplements, please tell me
why how much what brand your experience (herx or not, improvements or not, etc)
I am considering using garlic because of its antibacterial properties. I can't add more antibiotics right now due to my ongoing C. difficile.
Any input would be appreciated.
Timaca
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5dana8
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Hi Tima
I have heard bio pure is the best brand but even in bulk I couldn't afford it.
I started out taking Jarro-Gar 2 2XD with meals but it made me stink!
Then I took Garlinase 1 3XD. It say's on the box: Take one a day. But for infections I read to take every 6 hours the way you would take an ABX.
It has 5000 mcg of allicin & enteri-coated to reach the small intestine. Don't know how important the last is.
I noticed that if I took alot it was contributing to my sweating. Which in retrospect may not have been such a bad thing. As sweating makes you release toxins. The sweating doesn't happen to everyone.
The garlic supps where hard on my sensitive stomach and now that my tummie is feeling better I can't wait to get back on it again. I found it was best to take with meals. I feel it really helped alot!
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SForsgren
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I get mine from www.BioPureUS.com. I just got six bottles yesterday. It is my opinion that it is the best option available.
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sizzled
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A friend gave me some red Italian garlic and it grows REALLY well even in crappy soil.
I am not a gardener so things HAVE to be hardy for them to grow!
You are suppose to eat a raw clove or two AFTER a meal.
If your stomach is sore, I start out with sauteed garlic in olive oil.....I KNOW, I know...cooking destroys the beneficial allicin...BUT it might help to get use to it????
Some people have trouble with the raw garlic first off.
Just my opinion.
I LOVE garlic but I stink afterwards and people have complained!!!!
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hardynaka
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I have tried many brands. then finally the biopure and the Dr.K's institute garlic (cheaper than biopure). but it's here in Europe, so I don't know if you can get it there. both are the same for me (biopure and institute frozen garlic).
It's still a bit expensive (I think about 20 euro for 90 caps), but I need to take MUCH less than all other brands because it's stronger (so far, no more than 3 a day). So it does pay!
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timaca
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Thanks, all, for your replies.
I don't want to stink either with the garlic, yet it seems that I've heard that it is the odor that causes the best antibiotic effect.
I have one friend that takes the kind that smells, but it also has added herbs (I think maybe peppermint or chlorophyll) so the body won't smell.
Scott, does the biopure garlic give you a garlicy odor?
Timaca
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SForsgren
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When I take the capsules, I don't notice it at all. When I open them and mix it in water, then yes, it does. Much better in caps than other caps I have taken in the past. My mom even asked if I had stopped taking it when I changed to BioPure.
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I just started to take Metagenics SuperGarlic 6000. 1 tablet twice a day.
I started taking it right when I started to take Chlorella (3X a day) and I am hurting. I don't know if I caught a stomach bug or if it is the combo.
All I know is my stomach is killing me.
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GiGi
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Chlorella should be taken 30 minutes before the meal.
Garlic, freeze dried organic, should be taken right following the meal.
I posted about both of them at length several times. So if you pull up some of my posts, you will understand the reason for the timing and of course to get the full effect of toxin absorption.
Garlic grown in bad soil, it picks up all the contaminants from the soil, the pesticides, the herbicides and the metals and you will be eating them if you use that kind of garlic.
The same goes for Chlorella. It has to be really grown clean, without exposure to air pollutants, bad water, etc. So it pays to get the best chlorella.
Take care.
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Yes, I used the Eclectic Institute brand freeze dried garlic for about 2 years. (after meals) It worked so well for me, that I now only use or need raw garlic cloves.
Many of my GI issues are greatly improved. Along with a stict diet of course.
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Yes, i have used Eclectic Institute brand of freeze dried garlic for ove 2 years. (after meals) It worked well for me, now I only seem to need fresh garlic cloves.
Garlic has helped my gut issues alot.
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I have been using Dr Zhangs allicin for 4+ years. Have had NO problems with it, but I am told I smell like garlic, especially the first 2+ years. Tough!!
Afterawhile I don't even taste it.
It definitely can cause herxes, as I was on only doxy when I first took it and every time I upped the garlic dose it caused a mild herx. Much like the herx I got going from 200 to 300 mg doxy or 300mg to 400mg.
IMO it has helped me avoid many of the colds that would go thru my family. It has also helped to keep yeast at bay. In fact, when my daughter starts to notice the beginning of any "yeasty" conditions she reaches for my garlic and says it takes care of it.
His allicin, though, no longer comes in the larger quantities' bottles so it is getting quite pricey--$13.30 for 30 capsules--about a 10m days supply. I will have to look into biopure myself.
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Ive been reading on NMH which many of us lymies have and garlic can make NMH worse.
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It's hard for me to understand why fresh, organic garlic wouldn't be better than something that's been PROCESSED?
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