I eat garlic all the time! Also, a lot of beer and yogurt, which has live microbes.
I may become a missionary for low to NO carb for various ailments, not just weight control. I went full carnivore except for garlic and coffee for well over a month, and yesterday I was doing my jog/walk (more walk, the heat was stifling) and I stopped at a convenience store to make a giant iced coffee. Unthinking I put sugar in it. I was actually down the road before I started cussing myself. Then when I did get to the grocery store where I was heading, I got my no-carb selections, and thought, well, since I’ve busted it anyway, it’s been a long time since I had a quart of ice cold buttermilk. And that’s all I did. In fact, I had nothing else for the day, because I wanted to work it out of my system and start “no-carb” clean the next day.
In the middle of the night I awoke with heartburn, and I realized that in a month and a half, I had never had heartburn until now. And in the morning, I had some dull aches that had been routine in my carbing past, but for the last no carb month and a half, had been absent. And my bad shoulder had flared up, which over the past month had faded away so it was no longer a hindrance at all.
I’m afraid starches and I must initiate divorce proceedings. It’s a toxic relationship. My religion however, requires occaisonal libation in it’s practices so Odin will have to bless the odd hard cider on a full moon ;)