Cancer prevention or sperm killing? Men should be careful when eating raw garlic

For men, consuming too much garlic will damage the spleen and stomach, which provide sufficient nutrition for the whole body. If its function is damaged, symptoms such as loss of appetite, fatigue, and weight loss will inevitably appear, affecting the kidney qi, causing damage to qi and blood, and ultimately leading to male infertility. Recently, there are reports that eating too much garlic will kill sperm and is not conducive to fertility. Is this statement scientific?

Garlic is a natural plant broad-spectrum antibiotic, containing about 2% allicin, which has a significant inhibitory and killing effect on a variety of pathogenic bacteria such as staphylococci, meningitis, pneumonia, dysentery, etc. Eating raw garlic is also an effective way to prevent influenza and intestinal infections. However, since garlic is a spicy food, eating too much will indeed harm sperm.

For men, consuming too much garlic will damage the spleen and stomach, which provide sufficient nutrition for the whole body. If its function is damaged, symptoms such as loss of appetite, fatigue, and weight loss will inevitably appear, affecting the kidney qi, causing damage to qi and blood, and ultimately leading to male infertility.

However, men do not have to refuse to eat garlic, because garlic is a good product for anti-cancer and food therapy, and eating some garlic properly is beneficial to the health of the whole body. It is generally recommended that men with poor spleen and stomach should try not to eat it raw. They can add garlic as a seasoning when cooking, one or two cloves each time.

Garlic should be eaten raw to prevent cancer

The reason why garlic has anti-cancer medicinal effects is that it contains a natural bactericidal substance called "allicin". The spicy smell we smell is produced by allicin. Even if this allicin is diluted 100,000 times, it can still kill typhoid bacteria, dysentery bacteria, influenza virus, etc. in an instant, especially Helicobacter pylori, the primary cause of gastric cancer.

Since most of the allicin in garlic will evaporate or decompose due to heat when it is fried or boiled, the health benefits of garlic are greatly reduced. Therefore, it is better to eat garlic raw as much as possible. If you really can't stand the spicy taste of garlic, you can sprinkle garlic paste on the dish before serving, so that the spicy taste is reduced and the allicin will not be lost too much. You can also choose to eat sugar garlic and vinegar garlic.

In addition, you cannot get allicin if you eat the whole garlic, because allicin does not exist directly, but is synthesized by two substances, alliin and allinase, which exist independently in garlic. Only when the garlic is crushed or mashed can they combine to form allicin. Therefore, it is best to crush or mash the garlic when eating it, or chew it for a while, which can also help eliminate oral bacteria.