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Wild alpine garlic may help you maintain cardiovascular health

Terry Perkins of Houston, Texas, has been suffering from health problems for some tenyears. One of his chief worries has been his high blood pressure. Terry says, My bloodpressure is up. This is because of my weight, which Im trying to do something about, but mydoctor also said the high blood pressure appears in family history. Ive been on onemedication for eight years.

It was always frustrating, Terry continues. I was put on one medication, then another onewas added, then the amounts I was supposed to take changed. My blood pressure wasalways fluctuating; it was never the same.

Terrys cardiovascular problems eventually led to two surgeries for clogged arteries. Afterthe second surgery, a friend introduced him to something new; a type of garlic known asalpine wild garlic.

Terry remembers that taking this simple step made a difference. I started taking the garlic,Terry says, and my blood pressure levels began to stop fluctuating; they leveled out.

This was two years ago, and Terry has remained true to using supplements. He is nowusing a variety of supplementsincluding AIMCellSparc 360, AIMPrepZymes, andAIMBarleygreenand as for his healthIts going great.

Garlic for blood pressure?

Garlic has a long history as an herb that maintains health, and today, science is beginning toconfirm many of its health properties, including its ability to maintain healthy blood pressure

levels. Of particular interest to many researchers is the type of garlic Terry is usingalpinewild garlic.

Alpine wild garlic comes from Allium ursinum, while the garlic used in most garlicsupplements, and which we buy in the store, is Allium sativum. Although they are from thesame family, there are notable differences.

According to Dallas Clouatre, Ph.D., a researcher, writer, nutritional consultant, and authorof Alpine Wild Garlic, garlic is generally recognized as effective in cases of mildhypertension (high blood pressure), and alpine wild garlic may be the top garlic in thisrespect. Clouatre notes that alpine wild garlic reduces blood pressure through threedifferent mechanisms. It contains twice the content of ajoenes and g-glutamyl peptidestwo

sets of blood pressure-lowering compoundsas regular garlic.

Clouatre and Harry Preuss, M.D., have teamed up to do research with A. ursinum, and itspositive effects on blood pressure are born out in animal studies. Clouatre notes that in theresearch Dr. Preuss and I did, we found that the alpine wild garlic did have a substantialeffect on blood pressure. In our animal studies, blood pressure dropped 20 to 30 millimeters,which is very significant.

Clouatre and Preuss also compared alpine wild garlic with other types of garlic, includingthose with high allicin content. Allicin is thought by many to be the major health-givingsubstance found in garlic. Clouatre notes that although all types of garlic lowered blood

pressure, on a weight basis, the alpine wild garlic did a better jobit was definitely betterthan the two other garlics that we examined.

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More than blood pressure

Although many people are using alpine wild garlic for its healthy effect on blood pressurelevels, it has many other benefits.

According to Clouatre, both garlic and onion have long been known to lower elevated bloodsugar levels while improving insulin levels and increasing liver glycogen levels. This effect inregular garlic is usually attributed to the allicin content. However, it has been shown that S-methylcysteine sulphoxidewhich is three times as common in alpine wild garlic as inregular garlicis one of the active hypoglycemics found in onions.

Clouatre also notes that garlic may be able to lower elevated serum cholesterol levels. Hesays that Contemporary studies have indicated that the effects of allicin in loweringcholesterol are highly dependent on the availability of adenosine to the system. Alpine wildgarlic is quite high in biologically active adenosine, containing 20 times as much as regulargarlic. In our study, we found evidence that the alpine wild garlic raised the HDL cholesterol,the good cholesterol, on a weight basis.

And, of course, most of us are aware of the claims that garlic can enhance the immunesystem. This holds true with alpine wild garlic as well. Clouatre says that alpine wild garlicappears to activate macrophages, which are important components of the immune system.They surround pathogens and sweep away worn-out cells.

Users find one final advantage to alpine wild garlic. Although not a health advantage, thefact that it is odorless means a lot to those who have had to suffer through a strong garlicsmell. Clouatre credits this to the fact that alpine wild garlic contains chlorophyll, becausethe leaf, not the bulb, of the plant is used.

When you take regular garlic, the oil-soluble principles cause an accumulation of odorouselements within the body, and eventually the body is saturated and the odors seep outthrough the pores and breath. But alpine wild garlic is naturally odorless when taken bymouth. This is partially because it contains natural chlorophyll, while regular garlic containsnone. This chlorophyll helps eliminate breath odor.

The alpine wild garlic advantage

Alpine wild garlic achieves effects that either cannot be achieved with regular garlic orwould require unacceptable levels of intake.Alpine wild garlic is odorless.

Alpine wild garlic contains the full range of garlic active ingredients, unlike other odorlessgarlic products. Alpine wild garlic contains between two and four times as many of the activeingredients as regular garlic.Alpine wild garlic contains twice the content of hypotensives found in regular garlic productsand works via at least three distinct mechanisms.Alpine wild garlic improves hypoglycemic/insulin regulation without relying upon allicin.Alpine wild garlic contains 20 times the adenosine found in regular garlic. Adenosine isnecessary to activate the lipid-lowering potential of allicin and other garlic components.

Unknown but ancient

Allium ursinum has a long history. It was known to the early Celts and to the ancientRomans, who considered it well-suited for cleansing the blood and stomach. The Greekphysician Dioscorides also discussed this type of garlic, which is known as wild garlic.

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Wild garlic came into its own in medieval Europe. German medicinal handbooks from thisperiod contrasted and compared wild garlic with the domesticated Allium sativum, and statethat the wild garlic is superior. It was used for parasites and for lung and heart problems.Wild garlic was so important for health that the famous ruler Charlemagne decreed thatpeople should attempt to raise it. (This idea was not successful.) An Old English proverbalso relates wild garlics importance: "Eat leeks in Lide and ransoms in May, And all the yearafter the physicians may play." This simply says that if you eat ransoms (wild garlic) in the

spring, your health problems will go away, and your physician will have nothing to do butplay.

Wild garlic was rediscovered by Dr. George Pandalis, a German biologist, in 1988. Sincethen, its benefits have been described with great enthusiasm in a variety of health journals.In fact, it was declared 1992 European Medicinal Plant of the Year by the Association forthe Protection and Research on European Medicinal Plants.

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