Despite their ability to produce socially undesirable effects (bad breath, belching, flatulence, etc.) Allium vegetables - especially garlic - have been prized throughout the ages by virtually every culture as foods, spices and traditional folk remedies.
HUNDREDS OF ACTIVE COMPOUNDS IN EACH BULB!
Scientists have yet to credit a single compound as responsible for the benefits of Allium vegetables. Garlic, for instance, contains more than 200 different compounds! Of vitamins and minerals, garlic supplies high levels of phosphorus, potassium, sulphur and zinc; moderate measures of selenium and vitamins A and C; and lesser amounts of calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, manganese and B-vitamins. Alliums also contain flavonoids and other antioxidants, essential oils and fatty acids, amino acids, pectin, carbohydrates and sulphur compounds (notably allicin). Allicin alone reacts with oxygen to produce more than 70 sulphur compounds!
COMPOUNDS DORMANT UNTIL BULB IS CUT OR CRUSHED
Have you ever wondered why an intact garlic clove or onion bulb is relatively odourless compared to the diced vegetable? The answer is in the chemistry!
In garlic, unbroken cloves contain a stable, odourless chemical called alliin, which has no known biological activity. Cutting or crushing garlic, however, causes the release of an enzyme called allinase, which quickly converts odourless alliin to allicin, the smelly sulphur compound that gives garlic its characteristic scent and taste.
To reap the benefits of Allium vegetables, you have to eat them consistently and in quantities that can cause painful or socially undesirable consequences - bloating, flatulence, heartburn, belching and bad breath. Allicin, the key to many of garlic’s benefits, is what makes garlic smell. But sometimes it’s hard to take the good along with the bad. Why did Mother Nature produce such foul-smelling chemicals? Allicin protects garlic bulbs from decay and lacrimatory factor, the substance in cut onions that makes people cry, can irritate and repel animals. Scientists believe that these compounds confer a survival benefit to Allium plants.
GARLIC ALLIUM COMPLEX: ALLICIN IS THE DIFFERENCE!
You may have heard that if a garlic supplement doesn’t stink, it’s no good, as the lack of odour indicates that allicin, the compound responsible for garlic’s characteristic odour and many of its beneficial effects, is absent or inactive. This is not always the case. In fact, if a garlic supplement stinks a lot, it usually means that the chain reaction leading to the formation of allicin has already begun. In this case, allicin is unlikely to survive the stomach’s acidic environment and make it intact to the intestines, where it is targeted. On the other hand, any beneficial supplement that is odourless throughout the entire digestive tract lacks active allicin and as a result will not maximally benefit the body. As NeoLife’s Garlic Allium Complex targets allicin to the intestines, the product avoids the problems of repeating or “garlic breath” while delivering bioactive compounds where they can most benefit the body.
How does NeoLife use recent scientific breakthroughs and technical innovations to assure that Garlic Allium Complex delivers allicin? In a sophisticated process that has its origins in freeze-drying, water is gradually removed from Allium vegetables at a cool temperature. The remaining powder is rich in alliin (the odourless precursor required to form allicin) and allinase (the enzyme required to convert alliin to allicin). These compounds are tableted in an acid-stable enteric coating to protect the enzyme allinase from destruction by stomach acid. After the beneficial ingredients have passed safely to the alkaline environment of the intestines, the enteric coating dissolves and the contents make contact with water, which allows the allinase to convert alliin to allicin.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF GARLIC AND OTHER ALLIUMS
Since Allium vegetables have been used throughout history as folk remedies, they are a natural subject of investigation for modern researchers. In the past century, more than 1,300 research articles have been written about garlic alone! This intense research effort has confirmed many health benefits of Allium vegetables, particularly with regard to heart disease, high blood pressure, gastrointestinal cancer and infectious diseases.
PRODUCT FEATURES
- Whole-food approach. Contains garlic, onion, chive and leek.
- Allicin content guaranteed. Each dose delivers 4.2 milligrams from high-yield garlic extracts. This is the amount found in one clove of fresh garlic.
- Broad spectrum of bioactive ingredients. Diverse sulphur compounds and nutrients work together to confer a variety of benefits.
- Targeted Delivery Technology. Enteric coating assures the delivery of active allicin to the intestines.
- No repeating or garlic breath!
- Contains rosemary, an antioxidant herb.
DOSAGE
2 tablets daily.