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 Alzheimers disease and major depression, said Dr. Gary Small, director of geriatric psychiatry at UCLAs Longevity Center and of the geriatric psychiatry division at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, and the studys 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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Find Gut Bliss and follow that author’s latest book (can’t recall the title right now). She’s a trailblazer, but the establishment (AMA) will take decades to adopt anything new unless they can find a way to make a profit off of it.
New title of my parent (unpublished) book. Can’t share that right now.
Great link, than you!
You must be aware of the Gerson method and his history and death.
A friend of ours was cured from stage four breast cancer using ONLY the Gerson method.
Mr. GG2 and I take tumeric everyday. Our arthritis is pretty much gone.
What are the authors qualifications. That’s always my first question.
The Gerson “method” is bullshit.
My rationale: As a method, it’s self-medication.
It should be a manner of living.
Reversing over 60 symptoms of a condition which originated at the age of 12...something not written about in any medical literature and which has no medical name. Yet my research demonstrates that it may affect over half of the population, something which is reinforced with every research study on the topic...but they all miss the mark.
If you’re going to prejudge, you’ve lost.
I agree regarding lifestyle, but you need toe coffee enimas because of the toxicity of so much vegitable juice.
The results speak for themself.
She has faith so much as a mustard seed.
Please send the reference to your research paper. I would be happy to read it. I have been a reviewer on dozens of papers. Who funded the research you conducted?
The BBB is more complex than size only. It has been more than 100 years since Paul Ehrlich reported that various water-soluble dyes injected into the circulation did not enter the brain. Since Ehrlich’s first experiments, only a small number of molecules, such as alcohol and caffiene cross this barrier, and this selective permeability remains the major roadblock to treatment of many central nervous system diseases. At the same time, many central nervous system diseases are associated with disruption of the blood-brain barrier that can lead to changes in permeability, modulation of immune cell transport, and trafficking of pathogens into the brain. Therefore, advances in our understanding of the structure and function of the blood-brain barrier are key to developing effective treatments for a wide range of central nervous system diseases. Over the past 10 years it has become recognized that the blood-brain barrier is a complex, dynamic system that involves biomechanical and biochemical signaling between the vascular system and the brain. Here we reconstruct the structure, function, and transport properties of the blood-brain barrier from
#38 Listen to the doctor here:
Dr. Strangelove - Water Fluoridation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2bSL5VQgM
I misread the headline. I thought it said Circumcision.
Well, I’ve worked with a few pharm companies on various projects, including drug development so no need to state your wife’s credentials. Is she a physician with neurology boards or just a PhD? I’ve also had a project funded on BBB disruption to allow blocked molecules to enter. The BBB is damn tough to breach. You should know that. Maybe you are a small virus expert and are aware several can cross the BBB? Your screen name touts you as an engineer?
I appreciate the link, but I prefer refereed papers from reputable journals.
I’ve seen fluoride poisoning in Texas cattle, but the dose required is magnitudes above background in water and toothpaste. Every substance has a toxic dose, while background levels are harmless. If this concept were not so, we would all die.
After double checking this I discovered that it is okay to pronounce this word as Too-merick, at least in America.
But it is still spelled Turmeric and may still be pronounced Ter-merick.
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