I used to think I didn’t have much control over chronic diseases and that, because of my family history of high cholesterol and heart attacks, I would inevitably end up having those problems too.

When I learned nutrition alone can stop and reverse chronic diseases (like heart disease) everything changed. In countries where they don’t eat a Westernized diet, heart disease is virtually non-existent.

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a former cardiac surgeon who has dedicated his life’s work to eliminating heart disease with food, says that the American diet is the deadliest diet in the world. He also says, based on his extensive experience in curing people’s heart disease naturally, that we can become immune to heart attacks with the right foods.

When we have an excess of cholesterol, plaque builds up in our arteries to the point where they can become severely blocked.

In this meta-analysis, dozens of studies about the effects of garlic on cholesterol levels published between 1988 and 2016 were reviewed. After this investigation, scientists concluded that garlic powder can effectively lower cholesterol levels by more than 16 points. Their conclusion was: “Garlic can reduce lipid profile as well as glucose parameters and be therapeutically effective in patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.”

In this other study, people with coronary artery disease were separated into two groups. One group took 800mg of garlic powder tablets a day, while the other group took placebo tablets. After 3 months, those taking the garlic powder tablets increased their artery function by 50%. They concluded: “Our study results suggest that a daily intake of 800 mg dry garlic powder tablets improved brachial endothelial function…”

​Want to know more about the effects of garlic? Check out this video by Dr. Greger, who goes through these studies and more.