KYOLIC AGED GARLIC EXTRACT

KYOLIC AGED GARLIC EXTRACT is a remarkable nutritional supplement that I’ve taken for almost 35 years. I consider it one of my personal bodyguards -- helping to keep me healthy, vigorous, and full of life. Garlic has been on the breath of the physically fit, the long-lived, and the widely avoided for over 5,000 years. It has taken the medical profession that long to finally show some humility to this wonderful herb—garlic. Ancient civilization had to rely on Mother Nature’s pharmacy to fight the ills of horrendous hygiene and sanitation. They found that garlic worked miraculously in combating infections, dysentery, coughs, wounds, respiratory and stomach ailments -- even the plague. Garlic’s reputation as the ultimate healer was handed down through the centuries—because it worked!

Garlic is one of my all-time favorite superfoods. Herbalists and folk healers have used garlic to treat a myriad of diseases for thousands of years and it has been intensively studied in recent years, with hundreds of scientific papers published in medical journals since the mid 1980’s. It is scrumptious to use in food preparation and I always have several bulbs planted in my herb garden so I have fresh garlic greens to use. But I must say that due to my extensive traveling schedule, the garlic that I never leave home without is Kyolic® Aged Garlic Extract™. Not only is the Aged Garlic Extract (AGE) therapeutic, it is organic and very user-friendly. It is so sociable even my dentist does not know I am a Kyolic aficionado.

Today garlic faces new challenges in health care and is prepared to meet its match. Research shows that raw garlic, cooked garlic, garlic oil and aged garlic can work for the protection and treatment of an amazing number of ailments.

The condition of your cells and their functional efficacy determines, to a great extent, your level of health. Most major degenerative diseases are caused by damage or changes to your cells. These cells must be nourished with pure wholesome foods, exercise, water, and a positive outlook on life -- in order to sustain a vribantly healthy life. No wonder leading medical authorities are beginning to think outside the box and are moving away from synthetic chemicals and drugs and are seriously researching garlic and it’s medical and salubrious sulphur compounds. Searching for a natural way to spark and strengthen the immune cells, the medical community discovered AGE and the added value that this process can promise.

The 12-14 month aging process extracts five unique water-soluble sulphur compounds from organically grown garlic. These special compounds can only be found in AGE. They are: Carboline, fructosol arginine, S-allyl-mercapto cysteine (SAMC), F-4 protein and S-allyl-cysteine (SAC). These salutary compounds contained in the extract are responsible for hundreds of scientific studies being conducted by major universities and cancer centers worldwide. The results are showing that Aged Garlic Extract protects and enhances the health of the cells in the lungs, liver, heart, brain, breast, colon, stomach, prostate, bladder and the skin.

Most garlic supplements state that their products are standardized with allicin. Not true. No garlic supplement has any standardized allicin (proven in a major court trial). In a report published in the American Journal of Nutrition, researchers concluded, “allicin is only a transient constituent of garlic preparation and does not pass through the intestines or enter the bloodstream. No allicin is absorbed from the gut into the liver. Injected allicin is rapidly destroyed in the blood.” Put simply, allicin is not the reason garlic is so effective.

On the other hand, the aged garlic has proven to be effective in over 460 studies, far more than all 40 other garlic supplements combined. Solid scientific research proves Kyolic Aged Garlic Extract works for the prevention and treatment of most of our degenerative diseases -- and it literally works wonders! I have perused most of these garlic studies and because I believe in science, not science fiction, I am hoping that other garlic supplement manufacturers will step up to the plate and spend their money on their own research to bring credibility to this precious God-given gift -- GARLIC.

Well-documented studies from major medical research centers worldwide have proven aged garlic extract to be effective in its ability to lower the risk of cancer, heart disease, respiratory ailments, immune cell damage, AIDS, and fatigue -- as well as being a marvelous chealator of heavy metals (mercury, aluminum, lead, etc.) that compromise our immune system .

Health disease is the number one killer and more women die of heart disease than men, 52% to 48%. Dr. Matthew Budoff, at the UCLA Medical Center, recently reported a study indicating that taking just one teaspoon of liquid garlic extract might save your life, especially if you are also taking a statin drug to lower cholesterol. This research was a year long, double-blind study and the results showed that Kyolic Aged Garlic Extract:

1. Significantly slowed plaque formation (up to 70%).
2. Increased good cholesterol (HDL) -- no drug on the market can do this.
3. Decreased oxidized LDL (major risk factor for heart disease)
4. Reduced triglycerides (fat in the blood).
5. Detoxified and lowered homocysteine (only AGE has a U.S. Patent for lowering homocysteine) which is a major risk factor for heart disease.
6. Offers antioxidant cell protection (only AGE is an antioxidant) -- all other forms of garlic are oxidizers.

Additionally, one of the main reasons I am so confident in taking Kyolic is because of the ongoing research being currently conducted as well as studies which will be released in the near future. I am looking forward to two important studies on Kyolic that should be announced by the end of the year -- one on stomach cancer and the other on Type II Diabetes. At the Experimental Biology 2004 Conference, held in Washington, DC (April 17-21), there was an announcement of a double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study of the safety of using Aged Garlic Extract for patients on oral anticoagulation (Coumadin) therapy. The study concluded that AGE “poses no serious hemorrhagic risk for patients on oral anticoagulation (Coumadin) therapy.” In the past, it was believed that Kyolic could not be taken along with anti-coagulants because of the blood thinning properties of garlic.

Does all this scientific information on aged garlic extract mean that other forms of garlic have no health benefits? Of course not. There are few things more enticing in the kitchen than adding fresh chopped or minced garlic to a fresh dressing to drizzle over a colorful garden salad or creating recipes using tantalizing garlic. There is nothing wrong in using garlic oil and/or taking powdered supplements -- these are all good ways of getting some of garlic’s healthy benefits.

For those of you who would like to learn more about the scientific research on Aged Garlic Extract, there’s a wonderful, reader-friendly book (written in layman’s terms) called The Garlic Cure, co-authored by James F. Scheer, Lynn Allison and Charlie Fox. The first section contains scientific research studies on Aged Garlic Extract; the second section contains consumer testimonials attesting to the wonders of Aged Garlic Extract; the third section contains delicious garlic recipes. You can get this informative and insightful book at Amazon.com or ask for it at your local health food store.

Kyolic is available in a liquid extract, capsules, and tablet form in your local health food store. For scientific literature or information on the different Kyolic formulas, or for a free sample, please visit: www.kyolic.com or call: (800) 421-2998.