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I saw a video of an experiment in which 7 men ate four cloves of raw garlic a day to see if it would cure their erectile dysfunction. Of the seven men 6 were cured or improved after a couple of months. One man who had the problem for 10 years did not get better. He said he was going to continue. They took ultrasounds of the blood flow through the penis before and after the garlic treatment and you could see the improvement on the ultrasound. Only two men allowed themselves to be taped. One of the guys was the one who didn't improve and the other guy was thrilled with the result.

They made a point of explaining that cholesterol blocks the arteries in the whole body and this is the reason for the majority of ed. Now here is the part that astounded me. The guys were putting the minced raw garlic on steaks and fried onion rings. Duh. I wonder if the one guy with ed for ten years who showed no improvement had eaten a plant based diet along with the garlic and abandoned meat, dairy, eggs, oils etc would have gotten better.

Didi

I've seen that same documentary. Garlic is a pretty good blood thinner. I would expect that it the blood supply to the penis weren't completely filled with plaque you could improve sexual function using garlic to make the blood thin enough to get through a cause an erection. Doesn't actually solve the problem, as if the man continues to eat a typical western diet the plaque will just keep building.

And the there is the problem common with all blood thinners - hemorrhagic stroke. I know of two people who were taking prescription blood thinners for heart disease that ended up with brain bleeds. Aspirin can have this effect by preventing blood clotting. So can Viagra and other impotence drugs. I wouldn't be surprised if large doses of natural blood thinners like garlic or fish oil were a similar (if weaker) risk.

Kate

Isn't it amazing they can sell impotence drugs in this country when the other option is people could try going on a plant based diet instead...ahh but theirs no money for the pharmaceutical industry in telling people that their erectile dysfunction is from eating a bad diet...huh.

A pill for everything...a lot of the drugs on the market would be totally needless imo if people switched to a whole foods plant based diet.

After 4 gloves of garlic ......I can't see the use of erectile function

There might be anyone else near enough to witness the event...

Perhaps it's not evil pharmaceutical companies stopping people from going on plant-based diets--which they cannot do, after all--but people themselves, who would rather eat the intensely savory and sweet SAD fare and take drugs to treat the damage the diet does.