Turmeric or Curcumin: Plants vs. Pills
Curcumin-free turmeric, from which the so-called active ingredient has been removed, may be as effective or even more potent.
Who Shouldn’t Consume Curcumin or Turmeric?
Just because something is natural and plant-based doesn’t mean it’s necessarily safe. Those who are pregnant, have gallstones, or are susceptible to kidney stones may want to moderate their turmeric consumption.
Topical Application of Turmeric Curcumin for Cancer
For accessible cancers such as skin, mouth, and vulva, the spice turmeric can be applied in an ointment. Note: there’s an image of ulcerating breast cancer from 3:03 to 3:09 that viewers may find disturbing.
Boosting the Bioavailability of Curcumin
Dietary strategies, including the use of black pepper (piperine), can boost blood levels of curcumin from the spice turmeric by up to 2,000%.
Benefits of Turmeric for Arsenic Exposure
See what happens when turmeric curcumin was put to the test to see if it could reverse DNA damage caused by arsenic exposure.
Turmeric Curcumin & Colon Cancer
What role might the spice turmeric play in both the prevention of precancerous polyps, and the treatment of colorectal cancer?
Turmeric Curcumin & Rheumatoid Arthritis
Randomized controlled trial comparing the safety and efficacy of drugs versus curcumin, the yellow pigment in the spice turmeric, for the treatment of autoimmune inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis.
Back to Our Roots: Curry & Cancer
Dramatically lower cancer rates in India may in part be attributable to their more plant-based, spice-rich diet.
Benefits of Turmeric Curcumin for Inflammatory Orbital Pseudotumor
From conjunctivitis, to uveitis, to a low-grade form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, there is something in the spice turmeric with dramatic anti-inflammatory effects.
Fighting Lupus with Turmeric: Good as Gold
A quarter teaspoon of the spice turmeric was put to the test for the treatment of uncontrollable lupus (SLE) nephritis in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.
Turmeric Curcumin for Prediabetes
A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial on the use of the turmeric pigment curcumin to prevent diabetes in prediabetics is published with extraordinary results.
Preventing Alzheimer’s with Turmeric
Rural India has the lowest validated Alzheimer’s rates in the world. Is it due to the turmeric in their curry, or their largely plant-based diets?
Heart of Gold: Turmeric vs. Exercise
Diet and exercise synergize to improve endothelial function, the ability of our arteries to relax normally.
Speeding Recovery from Surgery with Turmeric
The anti-inflammatory effect of curcumin, the pigment in the spice turmeric, was put to the test to see if it could reduce postoperative pain and fatigue after surgery.
Magic Bullets vs. Promiscuous Plants
The pharmaceutical industry is starting to shift away from designing single target drugs to trying to affect multiple pathways simultaneously, much like compounds made by plants, such as aspirin and curcumin—the pigment in the spice turmeric.
Which Spices Fight Inflammation?
An elegant experiment is described in which the blood of those eating different types of spices—such as cloves, ginger, rosemary, and turmeric—is tested for anti-inflammatory capacity.
