Hi my loves!
In lieu of many of us being concerned with immunity and keeping ourselves healthy right now, I thought I would talk about an old, common kitchen friend: Garlic. Well maybe not so much of a friend to some of us! Many of us have strong reactions to garlic. It notoriously may cause some stinky breath, which doesn’t seem to go away for a while…. But this can be offset with some strategically placed parsley. 
I actually love the lingering smell of garlic on my fingers hours after I chop some up for a recipe. (Is that weird???!?)
Garlic can be extremely helpful in cleaning out our bodily houses. Garlic is rich in mustard oils and in conjunction with the cleansing elements that make it up, is beneficial for our whole system. Garlic promotes peristalsis and diuretic action- both of which are important flushing mechanisms to support our ongoing cleansing efforts, as well as boost our immunity.
Its potency is also an important ingredient to eliminate intestinal parasites. We don’t want parasites and unfriendly bacteria to build up and unbalance our bodies, which can be a contributing cause to not so great skin. So some garlic can really help keep that in check!
Garlic is so potent that is can dissolve mucus in the sinus cavities, flushing this waste out of our systems for good. This is extremely important for my friends that are still transitioning away from dairy! And have you ever felt when you had a bunch of garlic that is was just pouring out of your skin?? Well it probably was to an extent, as garlic can help poisons exit the body through the pores of the skin itself. A little smell might be worth it for some cleansing/purging action!!
Now that being said, garlic has to be respected and utilized properly in our diet. Garlic’s medicinal and cleansing properties are strongest when it is raw and crushed or very finely chopped. Therefore, it is best used in nut pates and blended into salad dressings. When garlic is cooked- as it often is to start sautéing vegetables or roasted and added to certain dishes- it retains very little (if any) of these amazing cleansing properties.
We also don’t want to overdo garlic- especially if we have a very high vibration diet (mostly raw food), and we don’t have much mucus in our body. In these cases it can overly irritate the digestive tract and the lining of our mucus membranes. So use moderation and intuition to assess how much you personally need. It can and should be eaten with plenty of greens. Again, defer to the salad!
Have a great day and see you soon!!
Love!
Kimberly
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Kimberly Snyder is a highly sought after nutritionist for many of the entertainment industry's top celebrities and author of the best-selling book, The Beauty Detox Solution. She prepares food for her clients on Hollywood’s biggest film sets and gets them camera-ready for roles and red carpet events... 
The French remove the “vein” from the garlic stating that this minimizes digestive problems that come from garlic. Does the “deveining” garlic remove any of its cleansing properties? It is strange that as common as “deveining” is in France, I have not found any information on this on US sites.
If liking the lingering scent of garlic after prepping food prep is weird, then I guess we are both weird
What exactly is overdoing garlic? Is daily use okay when all raw?
Hi beautiful! thanks for this post! you had replied to me earlier about garlic. I’m mad at myself for halloween weekend i went off my diet indulged in chicken wings and lots of alcohol. It’s no surprise that monday i am now sick and have two zits on my cheek. Sigh! so sitting here sick has me curious. You mention MUCUS FORMING FOODS a lot on here. Could you please explain what exactly that means i.e. what is mucus? why is it bad? where can it develop? what encourages it and what gets rid of it?
thanks!!!
Hi Kat!
2 of the biggest mucus-formers are soy and dairy. In a simplistic explanation, mucus-forming foods mean that those foods don’t digest cleanly from the body, but leave a “film” in our digestive tract. This makes everything operate much more sluggishly and inefficiently, and of course we want our digestive system to be as efficient as possible and throw out toxicity and waste!
Cutting out these foods are important, and cayenne pepper can help clear up mucus, as well as colonics.
Hope that helps!
xx Kimberly
What helps to get rid of hardened mucus?