Hi Linda, yes and it's a shocker when you consider that they are qualified and SHOULD know, but dont. Perhaps they only look at textbook stuff and shut off to anything else.

My gut cramps were severe, yet I was left to suffer and it took 7 months for it to die down (i kid you not). I was often in tears. All that from a few garlic capsules. I now believe that the garlic supplement, potent as it was had shunted toxins into my gut because the rest of me was unable to eliminate them. In fact, eventually I developed a heat and rash on my abdomen area and as the toxins began to move lower down, mysymptoms improved (the rash also appeared lower and lower down as time went on). So there was no doubt that it was toxic related and possibly mercury. Considering DMSA helped the process I knew it was metals.

So though garlic can be a wonderful thing to take (kills candida too), it is too risky for me in supplement form. I seem fine taking it raw or cooked! weird!

But the gut issue cannot be blamed entirely on the garlic, something had to be amiss for that to even occur. It is simply not normal. I have also had similar from other things, e.g. chelation done randomly has also shunted toxins in there and caused pain/distress.

These gut problems never used to occur. Only started happening after dental work in 2004. I still dont know what exactly happened, but that is when this occured. A doc reckons it's dead pulp/gangrene in my oral cavity that is actually indirectly causing this gut thing. But again, there is no conclusive evidence for that, just contradictory test results.

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