Beyond Curcumin: Why Turmeric Is Not the Same as Curcumin
Ben Greenfield – With turmeric, curcumin gets all the glory, but this ancient healing root contains other impressive compounds too, like turmerosaccharides.
Ben Greenfield – With turmeric, curcumin gets all the glory, but this ancient healing root contains other impressive compounds too, like turmerosaccharides.
Sayer Ji – Traded along spice routes separating ancient cultures by vast distances, spices like cumin were once worth their weight in gold. Has modern science now revealed why, beyond their remarkable aesthetic value, they were so highly prized?
Mandy Froelich – Long ago, scientists discovered that the bright, yellow powder can also help combat stomach cancer.
Sayer Ji – Turmeric is becoming the most promising herb for disease prevention and treatment.
Sayer Ji – A new study finds turmeric extract selectively and safely killing cancer stem cells in a way that chemo and radiation can not.
Video – Researchers showed that those at high risk for colon cancer could reverse the progression of their disease by taking curcumin, the yellow pigment in the spice turmeric.
Deane Alban – Turmeric and curcumin have many health benefits but pay attention to their differences and side effects.
Dr. Michael Murray, Green Med Info Waking Times The latest, and most likely, program theory of aging is the telomere shortening theory. Telomeres are the end-cap segments of DNA (our genetic material). Each time a cell replicates, a small piece of DNA is taken off the end of each chromosome. The shorter the telomere gets, …
Jack Albritton, Guest Waking Times I have been eating a whole food plant based diet for almost a year and a half, cutting out almost all processed food and following a mostly raw vegan lifestyle. I have recently been looking into and studying essential herbs and spices as a way to enhance my health and …
Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo Waking Times A promising new study published in Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry titled, “Dietary Curcumin Ameliorates Aging-Related Cerebrovascular Dysfunction through the AMPK/Uncoupling Protein 2 Pathway,”[i] reveals the primary polyphenol in turmeric known as curcumin (which gives it its golden hue) may provide what the study authors describe as an “effective therapeutic strategy to reverse age-related …
Dr. Mercola Waking Times Cancer is one of the leading causes of death. What if there was a safe, natural herb that could work for nearly every type of cancer? According to Dr. William LaValley, who focuses most of his clinical work on the treatment of cancer, curcumin—a derivative of turmeric, and the pigment that gives …
Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times Despite no evidence of its effectiveness to prevent disease, public health agencies and the medical community insist that infants and children between the ages of 2 and 12 months require up to four shots of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV). Now new research finds a substance in turmeric, curcumin, …
Mike Barrett, Natural Society Waking Times By now, you should be convinced of turmeric’s amazing ability to fight off numerous carcinogenic properties, as study after study has distinctly showcased the spice’s cancer-fighting properties. But just in case you aren’t yet convinced, here is even more research on the subject. In a study conducted last year and …
Lisa Garber Waking Times Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer—that’s quite a lot to expect of a humble root of the ginger family. Like ginger, turmeric and curcumin (the powdered and supplement form, respectively, of the Curcuma longa plant) play center stage in millenia-old Asian medicine and cuisine. It wasn’t until 1949, however, that the West studied its …