Garlic doesn’t lower your Cholesterol

New studies just released by Stanford University researchers now report that Garlic does absolutely nothing to reduce your Cholesterol levels in spite of the highly touted claims that you normally hear about Garlic’s reputation’s ability to lower your Cholesterol. Whether it was fresh garlic from the fields, aged garlic, or a garlic extract or pill this very popular supplement had no effect on Cholesterol with people with moderately high levels according to the report in the archives of Internal Medicine. “It just doesn’t work said Christopher Gardner, leading Stanford Professor who lead the study. According to Gardner, “If garlic was going to work, in one form or another, then it would have worked in our study. The lack of effect was compelling and clear”.

The only real significant side affect, that nobody wants that was the persistent bad breath and body odor observed in the study in those participants who had consumed raw garlic. In an editorial accompanying their findings, Drs. Mary Charlson and Marcus McFerren of the Weill Cornell College in New York City wrote that the authors had “convincing demonstrated that raw garlic and two popularly used supplements do not reduce cholesterol.

The study did not rule out the possibility that garlic has some other beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system, adding that those potential effects needed to be studied in similar trials. The team researching the potential benefits of using garlic to lower cholesterol says that they measured cholesterol levels monthly and saw no changes or trends in any type of cholesterol. They even looked at participants with the highest versus the lowest levels at the start of the study, and the results were identical, Gardner said. “Garlic, just doesn’t work.”