garlic remedy

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i think my allergies are caused by fungal spores and pollens. my passion for golf and allergy to the outdoors is a very fun combination. i was rarely absent from school and work because i learned to tough it out. i got so used to it that one time i was playing a golf tournament. i had my temperature checked by the club nurse because i had a crush on her, and she told me i had fever. i still played and had a decent game.

in the philippines, fungal spores thrive because of the high humidity. they get trapped in the moisture and live longer. if the air is less humid, like in california, they just drop to the ground or die. but when i'm in california, my problem is pollen which stays on the air longer if the air is dry. i can never catch a break. this explains why if you look at my fb posts and youtube videos i've been wearing a mask for the past 20 years (e.g. ian and stephen curry). before the pandemic people always ask me why i'm wearing a mask. nowadays when i forget to wear a mask people ask me why i'm not wearing a mask. 

recently i read online that some spices kill viruses and bacteria. first i experimented by putting a black pepper kernel on my mouth every time my sinus starts to feel irritated. i would slightly bite the kernel to release the spice until the irritation went away. it did help a little and i was getting sick less often. maybe the spice was giving the bacteria a hostile environment. but i was still getting sick around 3 times  a year. i also tried ginger and sniffing salt water through my sinus but none helped.

then i tried garlic and it always prevented me from getting ill. i recommended it to my parents and my mom told me one time she started to get a soar throat and it completely went away after following my recommendation.  

basically i just buy a head of garlic (P5), put it in a zip bag and keep it in my backpack which i always carry with me wherever i go (i drive a motorbike in cebu).  then whenever i feel irritation in my sinus, i bite off a tiny piece, spit out the skin and keep it in my mouth like candy. i slightly bite on the garlic just enough to release or strengthen the spice.

for 8 months i never got sick. but a month ago i got cocky. i wanted to know if garlic can still stop the progression of the illness if i let it reach a more advanced stage. i waited for the soar throat stage before i chomped on garlic. the sinus went away but i got tonsillitis and fever for 1 week. what's weird was i did have a slight chest congestion but i never coughed and there was zero presence of phlegm. i think what happened was the bacteria was able to embed deep in my tonsil which sheltered it from the barrage of garlic spice. my fever and tonsils only went away after my doctor gave me antibiotics (note you should always finish the dosage of antibiotics even if the infection is gone because the bacteria could just be hibernating and it can wake up stronger than ever. if it overpowers the antibiotic you could die).

garlic is also a good prebiotic so i'm hitting 2 birds with 1 stone. it also encourages me to eat healthy because the garlic in my mouth makes the FOOD TASTE MUCH BETTER afterward (another example of my relativity theory in food pleasure). also i SLEEP BETTER, maybe because garlic frees up the airways of my sinus. so i'm actually hitting 4 birds with 1 spice.

so now i'm like a drug addict, but my drug is garlic. what's amazing is garlic is sold at sari-sari stores which means i can buy it like cigarettes wherever i am in the philippines. what's amazing is a stick of cigarette cost about the same as a head of garlic. during the rainy season, a head of garlic would last me a month but this summer i'm averaging a head of garlic per week. people would be laughing at me if it turns out my garlic habit will give me mouth cancer just like chewing tobacco. but even if know 100% it will give me mouth cancer, i won't stop garlicking (that would be cool if garlicking would one day be part of the webster's dictionary because of me). that means i didn't just win a billion dollars. more like a trillion dollars.