# Garlic's effect on sleep

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garlics-effect-on-sleep/412395
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 19, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garlics-effect-on-sleep/412395 "2007-07-19T15:35:59Z")
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### Author: ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garlics-effect-on-sleep/412395/1 "2007-07-19T15:35:59Z")

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When I ingest garlic, I usually have a very deep, restful night’s sleep. Does this happen to everybody, and why? I notice Wikipedia doesn’t mention this at all.

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### Author: ![Mike\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mike\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Fun)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garlics-effect-on-sleep/412395/2 "2007-07-19T15:59:25Z")

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When I ingest garlic, I usually have very deep, stinky gas. It doesn’t seem to affect my sleep at all but YMMV.

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### Author: ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garlics-effect-on-sleep/412395/3 "2007-07-19T17:44:50Z")

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