garlic & TTFD // was: Re: Thiamine-/ transdermal ALA?

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In a message dated 1/24/2003 11:29:46 AM Eastern Standard Time,

moriam@... writes:

<< Isn't TTFD in garlic

>>

TTFD is derived from allicin.

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> > Isn't TTFD in garlic

Yes and no.

Garlic contains allicin.

Allicin combines with B1 and forms allithiamine.

Valentina

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In his book, " Why I left Orthodox Medicine " , Dr. Lonsdale says that

allithiamine is created when you crush or slice garlic cloves.

Max in VA

> > > I am wondering, as always, if the allithiamine can be an anti-

> > > viral. Some of the benefits I am hearing sound very similiar

to

> > > what I have seen from putting my son on an antiviral.

> >

> > that is interesting.

> > >

> > > Isn't TTFD in garlic

> >

> > um, I don't know. I looked in a book about garlic, and

> > here is all that I can find relating to B vitamins:

> > ============

> > " Raw garlic contains 5 water-soluable vitamins: vitamin

> > B1 (thiamine), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin C (ascorbic

> > acid), nicotinic acid (niacin, or vitamin B3), and choline. "

> > [p16, " Dr. Earl Mindell's GARLIC the miracle nutrient " ]

> > =========

> >

> > That seems pretty general to me. I would think a lot

> > of foods have some B1, and the text above does not lead

> > me to think that garlic does or does not have especially

> > a lot. I don't know from this.

> >

> > > and isn't garlic an anti-viral

> >

> > very much so. Anti-viral, and anti-bacterial.

> >

> > best wishes,

> > Moria