Posted on 03/22/2020 3:13:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Turmeric, or curcumin, is being advocated by some medical experts for reducing lung inflammation amid the rising COVID-19 cases in India. The virus is especially known to attack the respiratory system.
Turmeric is being touted as the only way to keep inflammation in your body low so that you have a better chance of fighting the coronavirus infection.
In view of the current COVID-19 epidemic and the panic around it, medical experts have a few suggestions besides washing hands, not being in crowded spaces, etc., on how to boost the immune system and possibly minimize the symptoms as there is no cure for the disease.
Vaccines are at least two years away and there are no drugs on the horizon except Actemra, which is a biological drug that Roche had developed for arthritis.
Simple tricks to boost your immune system during coronavirus may help reduce the severity of the disease. One major thing that happens when you get infected is that one has a “cytokine storm” in the body.
Bad cytokines/hormones, especially IL-6 and TNF, rise that contribute to stress and organ failure during COVID-19 infection.
The pharmaceutical company Roche has dusted off an old drug, Actemra, which was developed for arthritis as it was shown to suppress IL-6. Tocilizumab (Actemra) is in a class of drugs called biologics.
Tocilizumab is a treatment for adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, giant cell arthritis, and polyarticular and systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
Even if this drug is approved for COVID-19, it will cost at least $25,000-30,000 per patient. Nature has effective molecules for lowering IL-6 naturally: turmeric/curcumin, resveratrol and lutein.
I put it in rice, on eggs, in eggplant dishes, on steak and chicken and make my own curry.
Tumeric is almost like smoking pot...cures everything!
I didn’t like the guy as he was a jerk but hey, anything for a dog.
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Good point! I am on my last roll of toilet paper, but plenty of rice, turmeric, and curry.
“Curcumin, the active portion of turmeric, kills cancer stem cells, reduces inflammation, lowers blood sugar, improves artery function almost as much as exercise, etc.”
Also increases your pheromones so be careful. May cause opposite sex to violate the social distancing guidelines.
They tout it for everything.
Could be. I don’t have Coronavirus.
You can buy it in a jar and not have to bother. with breaking open. capsules.
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I can assure you that’s true in my home - and it’s spectacular! 😁
I take Tumuric and zinc everyday I am double protected!!!
DON’T GO OUTSIDE! Particularly during senior shopping hours.
curcumin, vitamin D and NAC.
Good advice. I have to carry pepper spray as it is...
Wait, what - my sex life? What were you saying again?
I’d buy it in capsule form from Costco...there’s a liquid form too but I didn’t care for the taste...pills easier to remember...
I think about 1/4 - 1/2 tsp. Start small and work up. Also supposed to be a good fat burner. I originally heard about it from Joe Rogan and those athletes he has on his podcast.
Please don’t take nutritional advice from anonymous internet doctors.
I don’t and won’t.
I think my daughter used to mix it with cider vinegar.
I have been eating a couple of grams of curcumin (essence of turmeric) a day for years for my arthritis and it is the difference between a wheel chair and vigorous walking. I don’t know about virus protection but it would be nice.
If we wouldn’t have shut down America, and destroyed our booming economy,we would have probably maybe all been dead by now.
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