{"id":59057,"date":"2025-03-30T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=59057"},"modified":"2025-03-30T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:38:01","slug":"garlic-roto-rooter-for-the-arteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59057","title":{"rendered":"Garlic: Roto-Rooter For The Arteries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Heads_Of_Garlic.jpg\" alt=\"Heads Of Garlic\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Heads_Of_Garlic.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Heads_Of_Garlic-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve looked at a wide range of natural alternatives to drugs for heart disease in previous posts, with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/can-pomegranate-keep-you-going-under-knife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pomegranate<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/how-whole-turmeric-heals-damaged-brain-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turmeric<\/a><\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/open-sesame-10-amazing-health-benefits-super-seed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sesame seed<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0demonstrating extraordinary cardioprotective properties, to name but a few. Garlic, however, may be the most compelling of them all from the standpoint of clinical research, given that numerous recent studies now show this amazing herb can prevent and even reverse the accumulation of calcified plaque in the arteries. This is, of course, the goal of root-cause resolution medicine: to address and ameliorate the underlying pathologies, instead of simply suppressing symptoms or surrogate markers of cardiovascular disease risk\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/cholesterol-its-all-good\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">such as LDL cholesterol<\/a><\/strong>. Take a look at one of our\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/garlic-prevents-artery-calcification-and-infection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous reports on the topic of garlic&#8217;s artery de-calcifying properties here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/food-cooking\/garlic-roto-rooter-for-the-arteries\/\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/food-cooking\/garlic-roto-rooter-for-the-arteries\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve looked at a wide range of natural alternatives to drugs for heart disease in previous posts, with\u00a0pomegranate,\u00a0turmeric, and\u00a0sesame seed\u00a0demonstrating extraordinary cardioprotective properties, to name but a few. Garlic, however, may be the most compelling of them all from the standpoint of clinical research, given that numerous recent studies now show this amazing herb can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59057\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Garlic: Roto-Rooter For The Arteries?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59059,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59057\/revisions\/59059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}