Garlic cures AS social skills problems....

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Haha, I suppose everyone stays away from you!

Yeah, garlic is good but I don't think you have to eat a ton of it for it to work.

Are you saying NTs are vampires?

I've notice misquetos stay away

It works on MOSQUITOES? Bring on the garlic! I've become resigned to NT's but I always held out hope for mosquitoes. Does it work on bees?

Mosquitoes almost never bite me. I've been bitten maybe a dozen times in my life and they always pull out right away and fly away, spitting and scraping their tongues. I've lived in areas where the mosquitoes make clouds around lakes, too. I'm just not a target.

I don't eat much garlic, because it has no flavor to me, so something else works on mosquitoes, also. I have no idea what it could be, because my eating habits have changed at various times over the years.

Interesting about garlic containing elements the brain needs.

I had some garlic bread with some delicious bruschetta this week. Suddenly my big social problem, that people wanted to interact with me, vanished.

I loved that bruschetta.

Garlic contains the trace elements germanium and selenium. Maybe it can be that?

Impact of selenium on mood and quality of life: a randomized, controlled trial.

* Rayman M,
* Thompson A,
* Warren-Perry M,
* Galassini R,
* Catterick J,
* Hall E,
* Lawrence D,
* Bliss J.

School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK. [email protected]

BACKGROUND: Selenium is known to be important to the brain. Three small, published studies have suggested an effect of selenium supplementation or deprivation on mood in healthy volunteers. We investigated these findings on a much larger scale. METHODS: In this double-blind, placebo-controlled intervention, 501 UK participants aged 60-74 were randomly allocated to receive 100, 200 or 300 microg selenium/d as high-selenium yeast or placebo yeast. Mood (Profile of Moods States - Bipolar Form [POMS-BI] questionnaire), "quality of life" (Short Form 36 [SF-36] questionnaire) and plasma selenium were measured at baseline and six months. RESULTS: Supplementation significantly increased plasma selenium above baseline values: from an overall mean (SD) of 90(19) ng/g to 91(26), 144(27), 191(41) and 227(53) ng/g in the placebo, 100, 200, 300 microg selenium groups respectively (p < .001). Four hundred forty-eight participants completed the POMS-BI questionnaires at both time points, with no significant differences in total mood or mood-subscale scores seen between doses. After six months of supplementation, mean (SD) total mood scores for the four doses were 163(36), 161(37), 162(33), 162(34), F(3,443) = .25, p = .86. Quality of life was similarly unaffected. CONCLUSIONS: There was no evidence that selenium supplementation benefited mood or quality of life in these elderly volunteers. Though this is at odds with some previous results, our robust study design, much larger sample size and longer supplementation period, together with the evidence that the brain is a privileged site for selenium retention, suggest that this is a reliable finding.

PMID: 16181615 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]