Therefore, garlic reduces the production of cholesterol as well as its precursors. Besides lowering blood cholesterol, garlic can also prevent blood clot formation, reduce blood pressure and inhibit the oxidation of cholesterol.
Reductionistic model (reduces illness to low level processes- cell and chemical imbalances). Single factor model of illness, explains illness in terms of biological malfunction rather then recognizing a variety of factors. Assumes mind body dualism. Emphasizes illness.
In philosophy of mind, dualism is the position that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical, or that the mind and body are not identical.hus, it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, and between subject and object, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism and enactivism, in the mindâbody problem.