21/06/2023
🧄 𝗜𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗥𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗖, 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗔 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗗𝗬....
⚠️ Study is 20 years old
⚠️ Study contained a mere 8 dogs
⚠️ Only 4 of those dogs were given a garlic extract
⚠️ The Garlic extract that was fed via a tube into the stomach was equiv. to 20 cloves of garlic i.e. not a normal amount a pet parent would give and was repeated for 7 days which would be equiv. to 140 cloves of garlic.
It's hard to understand the point of this study because this isn't an amount any pet parent would feed their dog or an amount you could probably get a dog to eat even if you tried!
🧐 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬, 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐢𝐝 👉𝐧𝐨𝐭👈 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐬:
"Results: Compared with initial values, erythrocyte count, Hct, and hemoglobin concentration decreased to a minimum value on days 9 to 11 in dogs given garlic extract. Heinz body formation, an increase in erythrocyte-reduced glutathione concentration, and eccentrocytes were also detected in these dogs 👉𝗻𝗼 𝗱𝗼𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗮👈".
We also do not know what-sized dogs they used in the study. If they were small dogs vs large dogs then this is a variable that would be important to consider if there were any results that could negatively impact our dogs - A Great Dane vs Chihuahua or even a standard laboratory dog being a Beagle are likely to have different outcomes. You would think as study to learn about the safe upper limits of garlic would have been more productive.
😬 Anyways... that's the study that everyone thinks their dog is going to die or get very sick if they eat garlic....
Let us fast forward to 2018 where another garlic study was conducted, this time on aged garlic...
Again, there were 𝗻𝗼 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 in the clinical signs, complete blood count, and serum biochemical parameters, Heinz bodies and eccentrocytes.
👉 The conclusion of this study was that: The long-term oral administration of AGE at a dose of 90 mg/kg/day for 12 weeks 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗴𝘀.
𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗴 (𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗿𝗲) 𝗮𝘁:
https://www.balanced-canine.com/post/garlic-the-confusion-about-safety
