Posted on 01/23/2018 8:35:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
“Exactly how curcumin exerts its effects is not certain, but it may be due to its ability to reduce brain inflammation, which has been linked to both Alzheimer’s disease and major depression,” said Dr. Gary Small, director of geriatric psychiatry at UCLA’s Longevity Center and of the geriatric psychiatry division at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, and the study’s first author.
The double-blind, placebo-controlled study involved 40 adults between the ages of 50 and 90 years who had mild memory complaints. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either a placebo or 90 milligrams of curcumin twice daily for 18 months. All 40 subjects received standardized cognitive assessments at the start of the study and at six-month intervals, and monitoring of curcumin levels in their blood at the start of the study and after 18 months. Thirty of the volunteers underwent positron emission tomography, or PET scans, to determine the levels of amyloid and tau in their brains at the start of the study and after 18 months.
The people who took curcumin experienced significant improvements in their memory and attention abilities, while the subjects who received placebo did not, Small said. In memory tests, the people taking curcumin improved by 28 percent over the 18 months. Those taking curcumin also had mild improvements in mood, and their brain PET scans showed significantly less amyloid and tau signals in the amygdala and hypothalamus than those who took placebos.
The amygdala and hypothalamus are regions of the brain that control several memory and emotional functions. Four people taking curcumin, and two taking placebos, experienced mild side effects such as abdominal pain and nausea.
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I just ingested my daily turmeric capsule. Turmeric is a primary source of curcumen.
Bkmk
I started taking Tumeric about a week ago.
What really helped my brain fog is, about a month ago, switching to toothpaste that doesn’t contain flouride and drinking un-flourodated water. Whew that really is really degogging my brain. Took this long ( month) to start noticing the difference. Flouride=brain fog.
where the heck do you get this?
I usually degog my front windshield with my brain.
walmart-capsules in vitamin dept—bulk powder Amazon
If you like hot dogs— use extra mustard, which is similar.
I like hamburgers with mayo. Will that work?
Sure-—just add a LOT of mustard to the mayo.
Cooking with turmeric is good too
Also strong anti-cancer properties, well-documented. Reduces % of carcinogenic cells in blood, and corrects cancer cells that bypass the “self-destruct timer” most other cells have.
Their curcumin is specific based on molecular size. It can be found on Amazon as Longvida. They were patenting it when the Chinese literally took a blender to reduce the particle size of the curcumin to cross the BBB. So much for the patent.
“If you like hot dogs— use extra mustard, which is similar.”
I have a neighbor who eats mustard every day to combat fibromyalgia. She swears by it. She doesn’t claim it’s a cure-all or anything but she is more functional.
Everyone self-medicating with any herb, pill, powder or elixir and failing to address the cause of the symptom seemingly being corrected is simply kicking the can down the road, accomplishing nothing but short-term emotional satisfaction.
Just sayin.
There isn’t anything other than “short term” when you are talking about a human life. Just sayin.
I thought beer did the same thing plus it gives me better eyesight.
$4 gets me 4 ounces of organic turmeric in the grocery store.
I just dump half a capful in my my mouth and wash it down with milk.
Super cheap that way.
Horrible factoid: if you’re not blowing bright yellow snot, you’re not taking enough and merely wasting your money and time.
/amphibian gross-out :D
There is a massive dichotomy between the average state of aging and those who are aging well (the latter in the minority).
Self-medicating to mask symptoms without addressing the cause(s) is statistically more likely to result in disease, premature death or twilight years best described as suffering than living.
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