Guest guest Posted March 19, 2010 Report Share Posted March 19, 2010 Is anyone taking garlic to bust up biofilms? If so in what form? I know it has wonderful anti-inflammatory properties. Does cooking degrade its effectiveness? Kim [ ] Re: Biofilm Garlic is a biofilm buster due to its blocking of quorum sensing, and it does get into the bloodstream. Theoretically flagyl etc. could also help against Bb biofilms, because it activates the Bb prophage; with many bacteria such prophages disturb the biofilm. I don't think there is any agent that has a proven effect on lyme biofilm, it is all experimental. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2010 Report Share Posted March 19, 2010 Heat kills it...that is why raw best and pills are questionable. > > > Is anyone taking garlic to bust up biofilms? If so in what form? I know it has wonderful anti-inflammatory properties. Does cooking degrade its effectiveness? > > Kim > > > > > > > > > [ ] Re: Biofilm > > > > > Garlic is a biofilm buster due to its blocking of quorum sensing, and it does get into the bloodstream. Theoretically flagyl etc. could also help against Bb biofilms, because it activates the Bb prophage; with many bacteria such prophages disturb the biofilm. I don't think there is any agent that has a proven effect on lyme biofilm, it is all experimental. > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2010 Report Share Posted March 20, 2010 > > > Is anyone taking garlic to bust up biofilms? If so in what form? I know it has wonderful anti-inflammatory properties. Does cooking degrade its effectiveness? the active ingredient for blocking quorum sensing is Allicin; you will see the most benefit when chopping up the raw garlic and taking it right away without cooking. Allicin seems to be volatile which probably explains while most of it disappears when heated. But not everyone can take garlic this way (can cause burns); probably the freeze dried tables are a good alternative. Garlic works against many types of bacterial/fungal infections; many types of micro-organisms form biofilms in the body, and allicin disturbs this biofilm formation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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