Jeff oughta stick to writing pop songs!
FYI
But what if you’re insane in the membrane?
All I know is that it’s yummy!
Ah yes those ancient remedies, always promoted by peoples whose death rate is the same as the Middle Ages.
Help Wanted:
Snake Oil Salesman please apply.
Or, Al Gore.
I just made some yellow rice using paprika. I should have used turmeric! I’ll be sure to do it next time. As a lymphoma patient in remission, my cells can use all the help they can get!
BUMP!
This is interesting stuff.
I already eat as much curry as an Indian, this will only give me more of an excuse.
I already take Cinnamon capsules. Mom took them and her cholesterol level dropped to a normal level with no change in diet. Hmmm, tumeric may be on the list next. Thx for the post.
Little curcumin, when eaten, is absorbed :[27] from 2 to 10 grams of curcumin eaten alone resulted in undetectable to very low serum levels.[28] Curcumin is unstable in the gut, and the traces that pass through the GI tract rapidly degrades or is conjugated through glucuronidation. Co-supplementation with 20 mg of piperine (extracted from black pepper) significantly increased the absorption of curcumin by 2000% in a study funded by a prominent manufacturer of piperine.[28] Further, due to its effects on drug metabolism, piperine should be taken cautiously (if at all) by individuals taking other medications. Some benefits of curcumin, such as the potential protection from colon cancer, may not require systemic absorption. Alternatively, dissolving curcumin in hot water prior to ingestion, or in warm oily liquids, appears to increase bioavailability; however, no published studies to date have documented this. Cooking with curcumin and oil may increase absorption, however peer-reviewed scientific literature has not documented this, while the literature has documented concerns regarding the heat stability and degradation of curcumin in the gut.
In 2007, a polymeric nanoparticle encapsulated formulation of curcumin (”nanocurcumin”[29]) has been synthesized which has the potential to bypass many of the shortcomings associated with free curcumin, such as poor solubility and poor systemic bioavailability. Nanocurcumin particles have a size of less than 100 nanometers on average, and demonstrate comparable to superior efficacy compared to free curcumin in human cancer cell line models.[29] However, actual in vivo absorption has not been demonstrated with this nanoparticle.
In July 2008, researchers from the aforementioned team in UCLA’s Department of Neurology announced results on a form of “lipidated curcumin” that was noted to achieve more than 5 micromolar in the brain in vivo, 50 times that found in clinical studies.[30] Another method to increase the bioavailability of curcumin filed a patent in 2006 that involves a simple procedure creating a complex with soy phospholipids, however the plasma concentration of curcumin using this formulation only reached 0.033 micromolar.[31]
There is definitely something to this. Google “curcumin, cystic fibrosis” and note some highly credible medical research institutions are investigating the very measurable positive effects of this turmeric derivative.
Years ago I battled a persistent hacking cough in the aftermath of a cold. Couldn’t get rid of the damn thing. No OTC medicine helped. I just kept hacking and hacking and hacking ‘til my ribs were on fire. A friend from India heard me and gave me a bag of turmeric. “Make a tea, a tablespoon or so with honey and milk if you like it, stir this in, maybe some cinnamon too.” A cups morning and evening, and it knocked my cough out in two days.
Similarly, when a dear family member was on his deathbed, his best friend in the world feared to visit because of a cough of several weeks’ duration, and he feared he’d give it to his sick friend. I told him to try the turmeric-tea trick, and his cough was entirely gone within a day and a half... in good time to have a last visit with his pal. Try to put a price on that!
It’s really quite remarkable— and cheap. You can buy a one-pound bag of turmeric in an Indian-food store for about $4. You can also find it on your grocery spice shelf for considerably more. Just be sure it’s the real thing and not some yellow food-dyed stuff. It’s one of those no-harm things. Make the tea chai-style with cinnamon, a pinch of ginger and cardamom, and it’s quite palatable. You do have to keep stirring, as the turmeric doesn’t like to dissolve.
It's also known to artists as the pigment Natural Yellow 3 (NY3).
http://www.artiscreation.com/yellow.html
Color Index Name: NY3
CI Pigment Name: Turmeric
Common / Brand Names: Curcumin; Natural Yellow 3; Turmeric; Turmeric Yellow C.I. Number: 75300
Chemical Composition / Type: Diferuloylmethane from the root of Curcuma Longa; CAS 91884-86-5 CAS 458-37-7
Color Description: Bright reddish yellow
Opacity: 4
Lightfastness: III
Oil Absorption: -
Toxicity: A *
Notes: Mustard coloring
* Toxicity scale here suggests that a toxicity rating of A would indicate that the pigment in question is edible or at least nontoxic. A highly poisonous pigment, e.g. PG21, Emerald Green, copper acetoarsenite, has a toxicity rating of D.
N.B. Saffron, that other tasty yellow pigment, is NY6.
Behavin’ membranes are a must.
Uh, oh, soon to be made illegal by Big Daddy Gummint!
Jeff oughta stick to writing pop songs!
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You see, this is why my body is in such disorder--it has nothing to do with my cruddy diet of caffeine and cigarettes, it's because I don't like turmeric!
Thanks for the info.
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