Popular Asian spice can cure Alzheimer's disease

(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."

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Hence the to each his own.

I prefer blended concotions.

Cilantro/cucumber/avacado and a lil olive oil plus a few other light seasonings make a nice raw veggie salad dressing.

My fruit smoothies are wonderful to me but have I tend to gulp them down which can screw up the body (an old body) BG count.

I used to when younger do allot of raw juice ing.

Now that I am aging my system can’t process all that power at once so I have to chop and chew. Not the same burst of flavor IMO as blended or juiced.

Don’t get me wrong I am all for man made pharma’s.

Yet I try diet and simple measures, as my first line of attack.

When I was young I was all about going to a doc and getting a pill for what needed a cure.

Then as I aged and have very limited time I started with diet about 15 yrs ago.

Not one one taking capsules for nutrition other than Vit D (PNW neighbor) I eat what I crave right now it is foods high in Vit K.

I have taken man made thyroid for most my life and that is a blessing else I would not be here (no thyroid gland) but boy that is such a huge hormonal and how the body processes everything else that I just don’t mess with it by mixing up to much.

If God willing I can do it via diet first then so be it.

I don’t have to cook/make meals for anyone other than myself so if I want to say drink dark cherry juice and do a fast for the occasional gout attack to lower those uric acid levels I am free to do so.

Perks to being single for life.
Downside finding someone you trust to drive you home from that colonoscopy.

Back in the day, when “oleo” came in a white color, my mother said her family mixed it with turmeric to get the normal “butter” color.

At the time, it was unlawful in many places to sell oleomargarine already colored yellow. It often came with a little packet of coloring instead.

As you might guess, this was the doing of the dairy lobby.

ps.: Another powerful yellow food colorant is beta carotene in small concentrations.

“Q: Is their life span shorter, hence less chance of occurence of Alzheimers?”

Not really, they just have a higher infant mortality rate. The Bible promises 3 score and 10 (70), and if you can make beyond infancy, most people will reach it. On the other hand, living 70 years in India might not be all that fun. Wearing diapers your whole life and eating curry at every meal might get tiresome.

Why use a pharmaceutical poison when you can use simple black pepper which is sitting in your kitchen right now?

I do have several bottles of (Bio)piperine.

Ordinary black pepper has no measurable effect on curcumin absorption.

The gout drug is not an elective thing. I wouldn't exactly call it a poison.

No relation.

“Cumin (pronounced “comein”) is the pale green seed of Cuminum cyminum, a small herb in the parsley family. “

Turmeric is ginger family.

Curmumins are the chemicals in turmeric that make it bio-effective for various things.

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