Garlic has many health benefits.  Below is a list of just some of the ones that we know of.

1. Garlic is very well-known for its antibacterial and antiviral properties. Garlic helps control bacterial, viral, yeast, fungal, and worm infections. Garlic also kills many types of bacteria, like E. coli, Salmonella enteritidis, etc. Garlic doesn’t affect the good bacteria in your body. As a matter of fact, during World War II, due to a lack of medical supplies, they used diluted garlic oil on wounds to help prevent infections.
2. Garlic can help lower blood pressure as much as 15% when eating one to two cloves daily. Garlic helps lower bad cholesterol.
3. Garlic helps to prevent certain cancers, especially of the digestive system, and prevents certain tumors from growing larger. It also reduces the size of certain tumors.
4. Garlic tends to give you an energy boost and tends to regulate sugar in the blood.
5. Garlic helps maintain weight or helps you lose weight. A study was done on some lab rats given high amounts of sugar. Rats that had garlic didn’t gain weight, unlike the rats that didn’t take it.
6. Garlic can help clean plaque out of arteries.
7. Garlic acts as a natural blood thinner and reduces blood clots. (Might not be good to eat a large amount of garlic if you are on a blood thinner)
8. Some studies point to that garlic helps remove heavy metals from the body, like lead and mercury.
9. Garlic can also be used on chiggers and ticks. If you start eating or taking garlic pills, a week or so before you go camping, you’ll notice fewer chigger bites (some places call them red bugs), fewer or no ticks, and fewer mosquitoes will bother you. Garlic has a mild toxin in it that doesn’t affect usbut as it is digested and goes into your bloodstream, insects that drink blood stay away.
10. Garlic is also known to have anti-inflammatory properties. It can help your body fight against allergies.
11. Garlic helps with respiratory problems. Breathing in crushed raw garlic can help clear up respiratory problems by helping kill the bacteria causing them.
12. Garlic or onions can be planted around other vegetables as a natural insecticide. Just search for it and you’ll see many results saying it keeps bugs and worms away from your plants.

Conclusion

There are a lot of helpful Benefits of Garlic known and probably many unknown for garlic. This is just some of the ones I know of. Just like anything else you eat, don’t go overboard with it. From some of the research I’ve done, the average adult can take up to four cloves a day. Consult your doctor if you are taking a blood thinner or any medications related to it before you start eating garlic or making any major changes in your diet.