Garlic has quite a high concentration of Inulin in it and this feeds friendly flora such as lactobacillus.

I used to react to any food which contains a lot of Inulin. Not always a strong reaction but noticeable. I would get a moderate amount of AS inflammation, feel kinda hot, and I think maybe it worsened my asthma (need to check my notes). Perhaps the increase in gut flora due to the Inulin (which some bacteria feed on) had stimulated my immune system and caused this moderate increase in pain level?.

I started by just putting half a clove of garlic in my meal and found that this was quite tolerable. My body has adapted quite nicely to it, I can eat a lot of garlic now and not have any trouble.

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"Some men, in truth, live that they may eat, as the irrational creatures, 'whose life is their belly, and nothing else.' But the Instructor enjoins us to eat that we may live." -- Clement of Alexandria (about 200 AD)