[353FMG]

I just ingested my daily turmeric capsule. Turmeric is a primary source of curcumen.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Bkmk

[ransomnote]

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.

[RightGeek]

Cooking with turmeric is good too

[montag813]

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.

[PA Engineer]

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.

[logi_cal869]

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.

[stylin19a]

I thought beer did the same thing plus it gives me better eyesight.

[miniTAX]

40 subjects is a ridiculously small sample, especially when it’s non homonegenous (ages spread from 50 to 90!). Worse, it means only 20 with curcumin + 20 with placebo. And the result, 28% improvement in ill defined metrics, is vanishingly small.
I call it junk science, typical of modern epidemiology’s statistics twisting.

[aquila48]

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[BlueLancer]

Unfortunately, there are some of us who experience severe reactions to tumeric/curcumin in the doses large enough to be effective. I started taking it a few weeks back and, within days, experienced severe diarrhea, stomach cramps, nausea, and blinding headaches. When I stopped taking it, those symptoms went away over the next 48 hours.

I've never had any problems with eating tumeric in my foods, especially curries, but, man, those straight doses were killing me ...

[captain_dave]

... I forgot about that

[Adder]

So: is there less alzheimers/dementia/memory issues in countries with populations that use lots of tumeric?
seems that research should be an easy comparative study...

I do take it daily because “ya nevah know” and its a very inexpensive “insurance” supplement.

[Neoliberalnot]

Curcumin clearly has anti inflammatory properties. The question is, why is it different that OTC anti-inflammatory drugs. What makes curcumin better?

[Ozark Tom]

http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/12/14/curcumin-side-effects-adverse-reactions-list/

[PA Engineer]

For your reference since "eminence" has polluted the thread. A few interesting articles on curcumin.

Novel Curcumin loaded nanoparticles engineered for Blood-Brain Barrier crossing and able to disrupt Abeta aggregates

A comprehensive literatures update of clinical researches of superparamagnetic resonance iron oxide nanoparticles for magnetic resonance imaging

Docosahexaenoic acid–mediated, targeted and sustained brain delivery of curcumin microemulsion

If you want more, I will post later when I have time. The thread was about curcumin. The crossing of the BBB is well established (at least 220 citations). It is an interesting delivery system. Particle size was established almost a decade ago.

[Kickass Conservative]

I misread the headline. I thought it said Circumcision.

[Drawsing]

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.