Garlic as antibiotics. I'm confused.?!

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It's not the same. Garlic has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties so it's a very healthy thing to eat but it is not a medical antibiotic. You're absoluletly right, you shouldn't take these unless you have a bacterial infection because unnecessary use can cause resistance. Your father should know that garlic is a natural blood thinner and if he finds himself bleeding or bruising a lot, he should stop drinking garlic juice.

Only certain, broad-spectrum antibiotics (usually synthetic) are bad for gut flora. Eating/drinking a lot of garlic would not have a significant effect on that.

To those who insist there is no bacteriostatic or antiviral properties in garlic, I scoff derisively:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allicin

Anyway, your dad should be aware that this will not protect him from all bacterial infections as it is metabolized very quickly, it will thin blood, and possibly lead to back pain over time. He should probably only do it once a week.

Garlic has been present in the environment for millions of years and humans have been using it for thousands of years. If bacteria could evolve resistance to Garlic's compounds they would have already done so a very long time ago. The fact that bacteria have not evolved resistance to Garlic's anti-bacteria compounds in this amount of time means they probably won't in the foreseeable future. Bacteria can evolve resistance to synthetic antibiotics quickly but it appears they do not evolve resistance to the natural ones in Garlic.

Garlic has antibiotic properties, however it doesn't kill off good gut bacteria the way prescription antibiotics do and won't cause bacteria to mutate into antiobiotic resistant strains. Your Dad's hypertension and diabetes can be cured through dietary changes and exercise. Adult onset type 2 diabetes is almost exclusively caused by poor lifestyle choices. Being overweight has a bearing on both conditions.

Bacterias are flexible.

Be as flexible as the bacteria.

Garlic is a very healthy food, but it is not an antibiotic.

It will neither treat nor cure any medical condition.

he's fine, He could cut that back to once a day for the same benefits that theoretically he's getting from it.

give your dad some credit for intelligence, it won't hurt him one bit

Garlic isn't an antibiotic so it doesn't matter. His problem isn't too much antibiotics, it's that he fell for a scam. Garlic also isn't an anti-inflammatory or an antiviral. You can tell without even doing research because the liars who promote it make moronic claims such as garlic can tell the difference between good and bad bacteria.