Taking a daily garlic supplement for a year doesn’t make the hard, calcified buildups in the arteries of people with type 2 diabetes get bigger — so it’s not causing their blood vessels to stiffen as...
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Taking a daily garlic supplement for a year doesn’t make the hard, calcified buildups in the arteries of people with type 2 diabetes get bigger — so it’s not causing their blood vessels to stiffen as...
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In adults with type 2 diabetes, daily supplementation with 2,400 mg of aged garlic extract for one year has no statistically significant effect on the volume of dense calcium plaque in vascular tissues, indicating that this intervention does not induce vascular calcification as a compensatory physiological response.
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Study: Aged garlic extract reduces low attenuation plaque in coronary arteries of patients with diabetes: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
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