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Hi I'm Andrea Nakayama and welcome back to Get Your Big Ask in Here where you get to
ask your questions, and where functional physiology meets nutrition. Today's Big Ask is from Joanie,
and Joanie asks "Does garlic kill off good bacteria?" This is a great question, Joanie,
and most of the research shows that raw garlic is anti-microbial, it's very beneficial. It
can kill a little bit of the bacteria in our micro-biome, so we want to be careful to not
be taking too much garlic at once or for long periods of time, but it is anti-microbial,
so it could be beneficial in certain situations. Most of the research is done on raw garlic,
so that's either eating raw garlic in your guacamole, or there's even some research that
shows how it can be used blended and mixed with water and consumed that way, or dehydrated
and dried and put into capsules. So that's where most of the research around garlic is,
but again it can kill of a little bit of the good bacteria, so don't be long term garlic
for a long period of time.