Several natural supplements can lower cholesterol levels and improve the balance between ‘bad’ LDL-cholesterol and ‘good’ HDL-cholesterol. The best cholesterol lowering supplements are plant sterols, beta-glucans, bergamot orange, garlic, lycopene, glucomannan, green tea polyphenols, olive leaf extracts and, in some countries, red yeast rice extracts. These supplements can usually be […]
Garlic
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Aged garlic is one of my favourite supplements. Several studies show that taking aged garlic extracts can protect against hardening of the coronary arteries by preventing a build-up of calcium in artery walls. Researchers have now found that garlic extracts also inhibit, and may even reverse, the ‘soft’ furring up […]
If you love garlic but haven’t yet tried the aged, black garlic version, you’re in for a treat. As well as offering health benefits, black garlic has a lovely, soft, savoury-sweet flavour with undertones of molasses and balsamic. As a bonus, black garlic does not have a strong odour and […]
Our love affair with garlic is such that average consumption amounts to one clove, per person, per day, world-wide. If you have high blood pressure, I suggest you up that to two – and maybe add in a garlic tablet for good measure. Garlic has a powerful blood pressure lowering […]
