I'll buy the science - let's assume it is bad for us.
Most of what we hear like this, from poisonous garlic to flouride in the water, is ultimately information that we have to digest as individuals, and then use to make decisions about our own health. Here is my decision:
I love garlic. My homemade lasagne would not taste the same without it, and my fight against vampires would be severely hampered.
I got my cooking skills from my momma, who used garlic in the food I ate during those critical years of brain development. I consider myself a reasonably intelligent, open-minded human being. Garlic poisoning has not interfered with my thought process or brain development in any meaningful way. I think I will continue to eat copious amounts of the stuff.
No one lives in this physical plane forever. Information like this is designed to play on our fear of death. No matter how healthy you live, you will die. Your pineal glands are organic structures, that will rot with the rest of your corpse after you give up the ghost. Whether you believe we only get one go-around on this mud ball, or many, it would be a shame to deny ourselves pleasures such as garlic because of health risks. I'm willing to trade five years of doddering old age at the end of my life for the flavor of garlic today.
If you understand the theoretical origins of religion and organized spirituality - the desire for human beings huddled around in their caves to make some sort of sense out of grandpa Ugh's death - then you know that death is the very thing that we fear the most. Why do you think everyone is pursuing "transcendance"? No matter your belief structure, those who seek "transcendance" are seeking to preserve their identities into the great beyond. Whether you are a fundamentalist Christian hoping to "transcend" after death, or a "third eye" new ager trying to "transcend" in life, you are seeking to mitigate your fear of ceasing to exist. Note the word "SELF" in the phrase "higher self". Accepting that your energy may continue without the sense of identity you have now is scary for a lot of folks, and the reason they drift toward religions and spriritual "systems" that promise the continuation of the "self."
If you accept that the "self" is a fleeting condition, garlic and flouride become a lot less scary.
I would just like to conclude by saying that I mean no one here any disrespect or insult, and the above comments were not designed to ridicule anyone's beliefs. They were merely constructed to convey my own.
Peace, love, and funny colors ya'll,
The History Circus