Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Popular Asian spice can cure Alzheimer's disease
NaturalNews ^

Posted on 09/17/2010 6:58:35 AM PDT by Scythian

(NaturalNews) Nature is full of various herbs and spices that protect against disease and even treat and cure it. And according to Chris Kilham, an ethnobotanist and Fox News' "Medicine Hunter", turmeric root -- also known in its extract form as curcumin -- is one such powerful spice that appears to both prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease and even cure it.

"People who develop Alzheimer's disease get a sticky plaque in the brain called amyloid beta," explained Kilham to Dr. Manny Alvarez in a recent Fox News interview. Such plaques either develop as a result of Alzheimer's, or they are the direct cause of it. But either way, they are directly related to the degenerative process.

However studies show that turmeric actually eliminates these plaques, both when they are first starting to form and even during the late stages of their advancement.

"What we have in turmeric is something that appears to inhibit the development of Alzheimer's disease…and actually help to reduce the occurrence of plaque in the brain if you have it," noted Kilham. "We know in animal studies, when animals actually have amyloid beta plaque in their brains and they're given turmeric root…that plaque is reduced."

Observational studies have also shown that people groups who eat large amounts of turmeric virtually never get Alzheimer's.

"In countries where people consume a lot of [turmeric], there's a very low incidence of Alzheimer's disease," emphasized Kilham. "In India and Southeast Asia, it's a rare disease. And [in the U.S.] it's very, very common."

According to Kilham, drug companies are hard at work trying to develop drug versions of turmeric, but he recommends eating real turmeric whenever possible, and taking turmeric extract supplements if eating the spice in food is not an option.

"A challenge that we face is that drug companies…can't patent turmeric root," he said. "So they will continue to try to develop something else. [But] eating turmeric, eating its extracts…appears to be protective against one of the most horrific and debilitating diseases we know."

Sources for this story include:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4337733/...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS: alzheimers; curcumin; ethnobotany; health; osteoporosis; tumeric; turmeric
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140141-153 next last
To: jiggyboy

Strike that, they are NOT related. Nor do they taste anything alike:

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


101 posted on 09/17/2010 9:47:56 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 98 | View Replies]

To: Tax-chick

I am a woosie.

Have to change your name to Tough-Tax-Chick.

KV is givin’ me a hard time, he can do it awake too.

I woke up last time during and not likin’ that poking around internally.


102 posted on 09/17/2010 9:50:25 AM PDT by Global2010
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 92 | View Replies]

To: Scythian
"In countries where people consume a lot of [turmeric], there's a very low incidence of Alzheimer's disease," emphasized Kilham. "In India and Southeast Asia, it's a rare disease. And [in the U.S.] it's very, very common."

That might have more to do with life-expectancy than anything else. One would expect lower Alzheimer rates in countries where the median death age is 60.
103 posted on 09/17/2010 9:50:31 AM PDT by Antoninus (It's long past time for conservatives to stop voting for Republican liberals. Enough!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Scythian
I’m going to have some turmeric at lunchtime, if I can remember it...
If you forget, then ya, it's already too late for you, let us know what happens, that is, if you can even remember posting this tomorrow?


Did I post something to you Scythian?
104 posted on 09/17/2010 9:54:33 AM PDT by mkjessup (0bama is a traitor. And he squats to pee too.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: steve86

re: Gout

Just an FYI, a good friend of mine gets gout from time to time, and swears that getting a jar of maraschino cherries, drinking the juice and then eating the cherries gives some pretty quick relief.


105 posted on 09/17/2010 9:56:13 AM PDT by mkjessup (0bama is a traitor. And he squats to pee too.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 97 | View Replies]

To: Scythian
LOL, did you even read the very short article?

Y'caught me. I'd heard this last year, so I skimmed and skipped. Last year's item didn't make clear the local impact.

106 posted on 09/17/2010 9:56:38 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Sarajevo
My son is a quad and so the involuntary muscles don't get the message from his brain.

Long story short he swallows allot of air at times and it causes a pseudo bowel block.

His Gastroenteroligist came up with a non surg fix at home.

1/2c of Molasses
1/2c milk
warm the 2 in the micro (the milk is the mixer).

The molasses properties will pull everything from your gut.

Not a thing that happens often but a home health choice for sure.

107 posted on 09/17/2010 9:59:55 AM PDT by Global2010
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies]

To: equalitybeforethelaw; PastorBooks

Variety is the Spice to life.

Too much of any one thing not good.

Everything in moderation. Unless it’s “fill in blank”... : )


108 posted on 09/17/2010 10:02:25 AM PDT by Global2010
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 96 | View Replies]

To: AU72

Cumin and curcumin are two totally different spices.


109 posted on 09/17/2010 10:03:18 AM PDT by Boogieman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: steve86

Having an attack of Gout is right up there with an attack of diverticulitis in the pain dept.


110 posted on 09/17/2010 10:04:04 AM PDT by Global2010
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 97 | View Replies]

To: mkjessup

Are you actually on a public forum claiming that people should only reply to you if you replied to them? Sheese I was chiming in ....


111 posted on 09/17/2010 10:04:08 AM PDT by Scythian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 104 | View Replies]

To: Pearls Before Swine

If that is true, shouldn’t there be a far lower incidence of Alzheimer’s in countries where turmeric is a popular spice?


Read the article:

“In countries where people consume a lot of [turmeric], there’s a very low incidence of Alzheimer’s disease,” emphasized Kilham. “In India and Southeast Asia, it’s a rare disease. And [in the U.S.] it’s very, very common.”


112 posted on 09/17/2010 10:05:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: mkjessup

Some people use cherry extract, some use celery extract, some use Sodium Bicarbonate, but believe me those are like a BB compared to a 45 caliber of the pharmaceuticals. Actually, the best anti-acute-gout-attack (as opposed to attack prevention) drug is colchicine, derived from the plant autumn crocus, but is extremely toxic and a relatively small overdose can kill. I keep those locked up.


113 posted on 09/17/2010 10:07:55 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 105 | View Replies]

To: mkjessup

I have a supply of Knudsons Black cherry juice Pure.

Drink shots of it with that first tinge and I mean first little tinge of a gout attack and get those uric acid levels back down.

I will say that it works (I will take an advil if it comes on full blown) in a 3-4 day therapy just as well as what the doc gives.

Trick is catching it early before you are in extreme swelling and pain.

It is painful enough that the first tinge (feels like a joint popping with discomfort) is reconizable.

I can go bouncing/running around the property playing with the dogs and just the uneven twisting can set off an attack if my uric acid level and hydration is off.


114 posted on 09/17/2010 10:10:41 AM PDT by Global2010
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 105 | View Replies]

To: rockinqsranch
Okra...REEEAAAALLLL allergic to Okra. :)

Same here, I can't stand her program, I couldn't be more pleased that after all these years of contaminating the airwaves, that Okra Winfrey is finally going off the air.
115 posted on 09/17/2010 10:10:42 AM PDT by mkjessup (0bama is a traitor. And he squats to pee too.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: Sarajevo

Opps and important, it is givin in as an enema.

Used to be able to get disposable enema bags but for some reason they took them off the market.

I would love to have the type they use in the xray dept.

It is a gallon with a huge applicator so you can administer the product and it all with bowel contents returns back to the bag for disposal.

Think non walkers for the practicality of the gallon all in one bag.


116 posted on 09/17/2010 10:14:59 AM PDT by Global2010
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies]

To: LibreOuMort

ping


117 posted on 09/17/2010 10:15:57 AM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: steve86

LOL You keep them locked up?

(I am assuming kids in the home not an angry spouse)


118 posted on 09/17/2010 10:17:20 AM PDT by Global2010
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 113 | View Replies]

To: Scythian

Perhaps they’re confusing curry with curcumin, which is mentioned in the article.


119 posted on 09/17/2010 10:35:14 AM PDT by knittnmom ("...only dead fish 'go with the flow'". - Sarah Palin 7/09)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: BunnySlippers
Curcumin
120 posted on 09/17/2010 10:41:50 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140141-153 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson