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A surprise of garlic to men

  • Writer: Loy
    Loy
  • May 30, 2018
  • 4 min read

Updated: Jun 3, 2018

It might sound ridiculous in the first place. There are things that you do not know about garlic. For instance, garlic could be much more useful than cologne or aftershave to men.



As we all know, garlic is one of the members of Lily family. Garlic consists of several cloves in its main body and they unite in a bulbed form growing underground. It can be seen daily in any groceries surrounding us. Garlic has been cultivated since long time ago due to the power of vitality and its wide uses in the culinary field. Generally, people use it as flavoring while cooking food and it becomes an indispensable ingredient in any type of cuisine can be found in the world due to its pungent and unique aroma. Even though cooked garlic is a way to enhance the potential flavor and its nutritional benefits, eating raw garlic is still possible.


For me, I prefer both cooked garlic and raw garlic. As a culinary student, cooked garlic is just like tap water to me, we would use it in any cooking dish. Combining minced raw garlic with other condiments especially soy sauce, it can be elevated to another dimension. Trust me, eating blank meats from a pool of soup with the natural sweetness of garlic and the savory from soy sauce is the simplest and tastiest combination ever. After all, I never get bored with this in my life. However, some people will never think so, garlic will never be the same boat with these people. The common example would be my eldest brother as his numerous objection has never stopped.


Antioxidants that we always hear about them daily and how important they are to human body whatsoever. Why are they important? In short period, they don't work any functional to our organs. Take a further look, antioxidants help our cells protect the bad influences of free radicals which are radiations and molecules from breaking down foods in the body. These radical substances are one of the causes of cardiovascular disease such as the most common one, hardening of arteries. According to America Heart Association, men who are over 45 years old have a higher risk to suffer cardiovascular disease. Various of studies found that the antioxidants in garlic can contribute for the body to get rid of the radical substances. The accessibility also makes garlic become the most popular supplement to increase cardiovascular wellness. Undoubtedly, consuming garlic is the handiest way of herbal remedy to a man who suffers cardiovascular disease, and this is why the experts have suggested so.


Let's put aside other health benefits that consuming garlic can actually bring to me. When it comes to the gender relations, everything could be part of it. The impact of the food intake is not just having extra pounds around the waist. What we eat could actually sway the sensibility of the member of the opposite sex. One of the interesting parts about garlic is the odor. Sulfur-containing gases on the human breath are familiar as garlic breath and almost everybody hates this unpleasant smell after consuming too much garlic in a short period. In spite of the negative odor that garlic has brought to us, some researchers found out in somehow women might have been through an evolution to adapt the smell of eating garlic. The smell of eating garlic here is not about the smell of breath, it is the sweat of men. For some reason, the change of a man sweat smell could hint the healthiness of a potential mate in a relationship.


Unquestionably, breath odor makes so much effects in social interactions between men and women, but human axillary odor plays a stellar role in an intimate relationships Women have preoccupied an olfactory sense through the mankind evolution system, it appears that one of the particular ability is to evaluate her prospective reproductive partner by smelling out unconsciously. This genetic difference could give women a preternatural talent to find out their most satisfactory men for their future investment. The question is what the relationship between this olfactory scenting ability and garlic is.


Garlic is a complex supplement that could reduce or increase the testosterone level in men depending on the amount of intake. It could increase the testosterone so-called male hormone by changing the protein anabolism in a man's body. The musky of men body odor was somehow controlled by the androgenic molecules and the testosterone levels are linked to the contribution of these molecules. Garlic as an attached item in our food, this shows the direct influence of garlic to man body odor.


Some tested studies found out that women who are at the menstrual cycles find the smell of men with high testosterone sexier and more attractive when the female judges had no idea what the man looks like. This showed that women rated the attractiveness of man based on the body odors. In the series of experiments, the pungent samples of cotton pads from 42 men who had garlic intake were given the consensus that the body odors from garlic feeders were more attractive, masculine and delightful. Also, the amount of garlic is crucial, and it stated that men must consume four cloves of garlic in a dosage in order to show positive effects on the results.


The results from researchers indicate that perceived body odor may change in a positive way by consuming garlic. It does not matter if it were gender relations of social relations, everyone loves to stay beside a person with sweet-smelling. The memory of a person of odors can be aroused even we do not meet that person face to face. Also, the hedonicity have decided our preference unconsciously through the experiences that we encountered. If it does bring pleasure to the persons surrounding us why not we just snack on few of garlic before meeting someone is precious to us. As long as it doesn't affect the breath and or health, it is still a clever way. (1001 words)


Agency. (2015). Garlic gets the girl: Forget aftershave - just eat garlic to attract women, study finds. Retrieved from The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11989746/Garlic-gets-the-girl-Forget-aftershave-just-eat-garlic-to-attract-women-study-finds.html

 
 
 

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