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The common, domesticated garlic created by millennia of selective
breeding, sold in supermarket chains, is not the garlic that's found
wild in Nature. And it's this common, domesticated garlic (Allium
sativum) which is used to make the most readily-available garlic
supplements - from the so-called "aged garlics," to the reputedly
high-allicin German garlic extracts, and all the way down to the
indistinguishable masses of lower-cost but untested garlic pills which
crowd health food store shelves. But the true, original garlic of
traditional medicine and modern science is Allium ursinum.
Nutrients and Phytochemicals
• Significantly more of many essential nutrients than common kitchen garlic, including such minerals as magnesium, manganese, and zinc.
• Twice the amount of ajoenes, the components of garlic believed to be responsible for garlic's ability to prevent the formation of dangerous blood clots.
• High content of gamma-glutamyl peptides, the
phytochemicals responsible for garlic's ability to inhibit
angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) - the target of the so-called "ACE
inhibitor" drugs. Therefore, Allium ursinum is a more powerful natural
"ACE inhibitor" than kitchen garlic extracts.
• Twenty-fold higher levels of adenosine. Adenosine
works by opening up the ATP-dependent potassium (KATP) channel in the
smooth muscles of blood vessels, leading them to relax and present less
resistance to the force of the blood flowing through them.
•Various phytochemicals present in Allium ursinum protect adenosine from destruction, allowing a significant amount of it to be absorbed intact.
Bearing the Pressure
Kitchen garlic, and extracts
made from it, does appear to have some ability to lower blood pressure,
but the effect is weak and inconsistent - hardly surprising, granted
that supermarket garlic contains so little of the key phytonutrients
which support lower blood pressure. Several studies show that Allium
ursinum consistently supports healthy blood pressure, and does a better
job than kitchen-garlic supplements.
In one study, the effects of Allium ursinum were tested in animals
fed a hypertension-accelerating diet. The diet caused a dangerous 29%
increase in the activity of the blood pressure elevating ACE enzyme.
Along with it, their blood pressure climbed upward by 8%. Both the
increase in ACE activity, and the rise in BP, suffered by the animals
receiving the diet but no supplements, were not only stopped, but
reversed, by Allium ursinum.
Next, three different garlic extracts (Kyolic®, Kwai®, or wild Allium
ursinum) were tested for their effects on BP, with all animals
receiving a blood-pressure promoting diet. The animals who got Allium
ursinum showed the greatest reductions in blood pressure and ACE
activity, followed by those receiving Kwai, while those receiving
Kyolic® experienced the least effect on BP and ACE. Of the three
garlics, the natural "ACE-inhibitor" power of Allium ursinum was the
strongest.
Hope for Hearts In Crisis
Ventricular fibrillation
- the fatal loss of the heart's rhythm, reducing a regular drumbeat to a
spastic, ineffectual quiver with no power to pump blood - can be the
most dangerous part of a heart attack. Ventricular fibrillation begins
the process that ends in cardiac arrest. And it's fibrillation that is
attacked by defibrillators.
• In one study, rodents were subjected to a simulated heart attack
after being fed either regular lab chow, or a diet supplemented with
Allium ursinum for eight weeks. After twenty minutes of heart attack
conditions, 88% of the untreated animals' hearts had entered into
ventricular fibrillation, versus only 20% of the hearts of animals that
had received Allium ursinum.
• After the regular flow of blood was restored to the animals'
hearts, every single one of the untreated animals' hearts entered into
ventricular tachycardia, a condition of wildly racing heartbeat which
can lead the heart back into fibrillation; by contrast, 30% fewer
animals whose diets had been supplemented with Allium ursinum became
tachycardic.
• Significantly fewer of the Allium ursinum-supplemented animals'
heart weight actually became ischemic (starved for oxygen) (33.6% vs
40.9% of heart weight). 90 Vegi-Caps
100% Vegetarian
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SUPPLEMENT FACTS:
Serving Size: 1 Capsule %DRI
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Allium ursinum concentrate ............... 300 mg *
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*Dietary Reference Intake not established.
Other ingredients: none. Capsule: vegetarian (hydroxypropylmethylcellulose).
AOR guarantees that no ingredients not listed on the label have been added to the product. Contains no wheat, gluten, corn, nuts, dairy, soy, eggs, fish or shellfish.
Wild garlic is virtually odor-free on the breath.
Suggested Use
Take one capsule two to three times a day, or as directed by a qualified health care practitioner.
Main applications
As reported by literature:
Cardiovascular support.
Supports healthy blood pressure.
Source
Wild bears garlic (Allium ursinum) leaves.
Pregnancy / Nursing
Safe at one capsule a day.
Cautions
Infants and children should not use the product.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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