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Amazing Curcumin




If you like to cook or eat curry you are already familiar with turmeric. But the tasty, yellow spice has more to offer than its delicious, exotic flavor. Curcumin, a component of turmeric (Curcuma longa), has an amazing array of health benefits.

Curcumin is safe and effective health-promoting activities occur because of its high antioxidant and anti-inflammatory action since oxidative stress damages our cells and contributes to inflammation. Inflammation, in turn, contributes to obesity and is a factor in 80-90% of all disease.

Because curcumin uses a variety of physiological pathways to accomplish its health-promoting feats it is beneficial for a variety of health conditions. It helps stop cellular degeneration that can lead to cancer. It protects the liver, kidneys and heart. It is beneficial for type 1 and type 2 diabetes and associated health risks like heart disease, nerve damage and blindness. It also protects DNA and lungs from environmental/occupational toxins and helps the liver with detoxification.

As an antiinflammatory agent, it inhibits damaging COX2 enzymes but not beneficial COX 1 enzymes (unlike NSAIDs which inhibit both) and is thereby beneficial for osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory conditions. It reduces homocysteine and C-reactive protein. It is a digestive and bitter herb, stimulating bile and enhancing digestion of fats. It also increases the antiobesity hormone adiponectin. Crossing the blood-brain barrier, it gets right into brain cells chelating heavy metals and promoting neurogenesis (new brain cells) while enhancing production of noradrenaline, tryptophan, dopamine and serotonin.

Curcumin has been used in Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine for centuries and modern scientific research corroborates this ancient knowledge. If you’d like to learn more, stop by Evergreen Nutrition and we’ll be happy to get you better acquainted with this amazing herb.

AMAZING CURCUMIN

  • Alzheimer’s/Dementia
  • Arthritis
  • Cancer
  • Cataracts
  • Cholesterol
  • Colds & Flu
  • Crohn’s Disease
  • Depression
  • Diabetes
  • HIV
  • Lung Disease
  • Ulcerative Colitis
  • Wound Healing

CURCUMIN IS

  • Antioxidant
  • Anti-inflammatory
  • Antibacterial
  • Antiviral
  • Antifungal
  • Antitumor
  • Antiallergenic

From Evergreen’s Archive: September 2012





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