Forwarded From: Akrura dasa

Subject: Why no Garlic ?
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 22:16:48 -0800
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Next time someone asks you "Why don't you eat onions and garlic?", the following research information may be a useful reference point in addition to scriptural directions.

RS


Garlic-the Horror

Source: From a lecture by Dr Robert [Bob] C. Beck, DSc., given at the
Whole Life Expo, Seattle, WA, USA, in March 1996

The reason garlic is so toxic, the sulphone hydroxyl ion penetrates
the blood brain barrier, just like DMSO, and is a specific poison for
higher life forms and brain cells.

We discovered this much to our horror, when I was the world's largest
manufacturer of ethical EEG biofeedback equipment. We'd have people
come back from lunch that looked clinically dead on the encephalograph,
which we used to calibrate their progress. "Well, what happened?"
"Well, I went to an Italian restaurant and there was some garlic in my
salad dressing!" So we had 'em sign things that they won't touch garlic
before classes or we were wasting their time, and money and my time. I
guess those of you who are pilots or have been in flight tests... I
was in flight test engineering in Doc Hallan's group in the 1950's.

The flight surgeon would come around every month and remind all of us:
"Don't you dare touch any garlic 72 hours before you fly one of our
airplanes, because it'll double or triple your reaction time. You're
three times slower than you would be if you'd [not] had a few drops of
garlic." Well, we didn't know why for 20 years later, until I owned
the Alpha-Metrics Corporation. We were building biofeedback equipment
and found out that garlic totally desynchronizes your brain waves.

So I funded a study at Stanford and, sure enough, they found that it's
a poison. You can rub a clove of garlic on your foot - on the sole of
your foot - and you can smell it shortly later on your wrists. So it
penetrates the body. This is why DMSO smells a lot like garlic: that
sulphone hydroxyl ion penetrates all the barriers including the corpus
callosum in the brain.

Any of you who are organic gardeners know that if you don't want to
use DDT garlic will kill anything in the way of insects.

Now, most people have heard most of their lives that garlic is good
for you, and we put those people in the same class of ignorance as the
mothers who at the turn of the century would buy morphine sulphate in
the drugstore and give it to their babies to put 'em to sleep.

If you have any patients who have low-grade headaches or attention
deficit [disorder], they can't quite focus on the computer in the
afternoon, just do an experiment - you owe it to yourselves.

Take those people off garlic and see how much better they get,
very,very shortly. And then let them eat a little garlic after about
three weeks. They'll say: "My God, I had no idea that this was the
cause of our problems." And this includes the de-skunked garlic's,
Kyolic, some of the other products. Very unpopular, but I've got to
tell you the truth.

Bob Beck also found in his research on human brain function in the
1980's that garlic has a detrimental effect on the brain and
researching this further he learned that many yoga groups and
philosophical teachings caution against the use of garlic and onions
as they are known to interfere with meditation practices. Some aware
individuals have actually described themselves as experiencing brain
fog after having garlic.