@SuperDicq
>your body magically turns it into different minerals and vitamins that are stronger than if you eat garlic like a normal person?
More exactly the good microbes in your gut benefits from it while your negative microbes gets killed, garlic has anti microbial,fungal and viral properties. It reinforces stomachs walls too.

>Sounds like placebo to me.
Transforming food always change parts of it's properties. Eating food a certain way too. For example, you can drink orange juice from the store but it actually has little to no natural ingredients due to pasteurization. All the labels you can read is "added" after that as vitC for example gets destroyed in the pasteurization process.
It's also not well known that most of the nutrients of citrus are in the skin and pulp, if you want to benefit of the whole organic complex you have to eat it whole.
etc...