Effects of garlic on cardiovascular diseases
1. The wealth of scientific literature supports the proposal that garlic
consumption have significant effects on lowering blood pressure,
prevention of atherosclerosis, reduction of serum cholesterol and
triglyceride, inhibition of platelet aggregation, and increasing
fibrinolytic activity (Chan et al., 2013
2. . In in vivo animal experiments, intravenous administration of
garlic extracts produced slight reductions in both systolic and
diastolic pressures (Sial and Ahmed, 1982
3. Several clinical studies showed that garlic reduced blood pressure in
more than 80% of patients suffering from high blood pressure (Auer et
al., 1989 ▶; Konig and Scineider, 1986 ▶; Petkov, 1979 ▶; Omar, 2013 ▶; Stabler et al., 2012
Anti-tumor effect of garlic
1. Garlic has been found to contain a large number of potent bioactive
compounds with anticancer properties, largely allylsulfide derivatives.
2. The growth rate of cancer cells is reduced by garlic, with cell cycle blockade that occurs in the G2/M phase (Capasso, 2013)
3. Garlic components have been found to block covalent binding of
carcinogens to DNA, enhance degradation of carcinogens, have
anti-oxidative and free radical scavenging properties, and regulate cell
proliferation, apoptosis, and immune responses.
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