Of all the things to put inside your vagina, garlic seems like it’d be pretty low down on the list of, uuuh, desirable objects.
Well, apparently that sentence is a complete lie. Because people are shoving cloves of the stuff inside their vaginas. And, according to Dr Jennifer Gunter, the New York Times’ gynaecologist, this is a thing you should never, ever, ever do.
In a particularly arresting thread, Gunter explained the myriad reasons why garlic is not your vagina’s friend.
Why you should not put garlic in your vagina.
A thread.
Garlic contains allicin, in THE LAB it MAY have antifungal (i.e. anti yeast) properties. This is in a lab, not even in mice. Just a dish of cells. Your vagina is not a dish of cells#vaginaisanogarliczone 1/8— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) April 23, 2019 Read more…
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