The gynecologist can not believe that she must tell women not to put garlic in their vagina

Thank goodness, Canadian Gynecologist Jen Gunter exists. Without the author of The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth of Medicinewho else would be there to tell women to keep certain items out of their vaginas? (Certainly not Gwyneth Paltrow, whose Goop website pushes vaginal jade eggs to "do anything, either to repair your hormone levels or to help control the bladder"). Vox.)

From time to time, a new vaginal tendency will accentuate, and Gunter must intervene. A few years ago, hand in hand to God, it was crushed wasps' nests. This week, Gunter had to take a stand against the use of garlic in the vagina to cure yeast infections. She adds, "I should not have to tweet until 2019, but here we are" (all right, his).

Proponents of garlic clove extol the antifungal properties of allicin, which Gunter acknowledges. But allicin is released only if the pod is chopped or ground. That you absolutely do not want to use, then, lest you now have a piece of errant garlic lost in your vagina. In addition, says Gunter, "garlic could have soil bacteria", which is also a bad thing to have up there, especially if you are fighting a yeast infection.

As Gunter pointed out in his 2018 article for The New York Times, "There are things not to put in your vagina", "it is possible that remedies like yogurt, garlic, etc., were tried centuries ago as medicine, spermicide or sexual custom … [But] all these so-called "old" sexual remedies have been removed for a reason ".

We here at Take away are far from being health professionals, that's why we rely on the opinion of current doctors like Gunter. So listen to it (and also, follow her on Twittershe's great): Keep the garlic out of your vagina. Words to live by. Where is my sticker?