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Interesting. Afaik Indians have a very low Alzheimer risk supposely because of curcurma. My friend claimed curcuma also mildens Alzheimer syndromes. This made m

Interesting. Afaik Indians have a very low Alzheimer risk supposely because of curcurma. My friend claimed curcuma also mildens Alzheimer syndromes. This made me Google if curcuma helps against herpes. It does! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2668156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2668156/

jorvi 8y ago
Normal curcuma (aka tumeric) only contains about 2.5% of the actual beneficial compound curcumin. But curcumin is indeed amazing, not only does it help with Alzheimer’s, it also has anti-tumor, blood sugar regulating and fat controlling properties.
- corysama 8y ago
  I saw a rando blog article out there about an old paper studying the components of tumeric. They found it had lots of components each with separate benefits. Unfortunately, the conclusion of the paper was “We should separate all the components so that we can market and sell the same tumeric 10 times!” Obligatory mention of how piperine (black pepper extract) is necessary for bioavailability.
  - reducesuffering 8y ago
    Black pepper is not necessary. There are extracted forms with patented formulas that have studies showing possibly increased effectiveness compared to black pepper. Theracurmin and Longvida
JohnJamesRambo 8y ago
Curcumin is one of those compounds that does everything, that's not necessarily a good thing, it is a hit in every assay. When you google compounds and they are antifungal, antidiabetic, antibacterial, anticancer, etc., it isn't a reason to get excited, they have no specificity. Source: I work in natural products chemistry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-assay_interference_compounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-assay_interference_compoun... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/12/curcumin-will-waste-your-time http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/12/cur...
- adrr 8y ago
  I also hate the term anticancer which gets tossed around a lot. Everything that is toxic to human cells is anticancer which is what chemotherapy does. If we found a substance that wasn't toxic to normal cells and killed cancer cells, we'd have a safe cure for cancer.
  - 1812Overture 8y ago
    Amazing health breakthrough! Our product Nature Farms Pure Organic Battery Acid kills one hundred percent of cancer cells in lab tests!
    - subcosmos 8y ago
      Pure organic is great, but I won't use batteries unless they are vegan.
kaybe 8y ago
I'm not sure I completely trust research done on HeLa cells. Those things are seriously weird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa PS: On the other hand, if something kills those things..
- phkahler 8y ago
  Know what's really funny? Iodine kills HeLa cells, but according to this paper that's a problem: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24219135 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24219135 Iodine has been claimed to induce apoptosis in a number of cancer types while remaining harmless to normal cells.
  - subcosmos 8y ago
    Interesting, I wonder if it's linked with thyroid hormones. In culture, that would seem odd, unless it's binding to receptors in a manner that hormones would, or competing with hormones in the growth serum? I'm only a make-believe biologist.
    - phkahler 8y ago
      I'm beginning to think the thyroid hormones are just a storage mechanism for iodine. The hormones T1, T2, T3, and T4 are actually named for the number of Iodine atoms in the molecule.

jorvi 8y ago

Normal curcuma (aka tumeric) only contains about 2.5% of the actual beneficial compound curcumin. But curcumin is indeed amazing, not only does it help with Alzheimer’s, it also has anti-tumor, blood sugar regulating and fat controlling properties.

corysama 8y ago
I saw a rando blog article out there about an old paper studying the components of tumeric. They found it had lots of components each with separate benefits. Unfortunately, the conclusion of the paper was “We should separate all the components so that we can market and sell the same tumeric 10 times!” Obligatory mention of how piperine (black pepper extract) is necessary for bioavailability.
- reducesuffering 8y ago
  Black pepper is not necessary. There are extracted forms with patented formulas that have studies showing possibly increased effectiveness compared to black pepper. Theracurmin and Longvida

JohnJamesRambo 8y ago

Curcumin is one of those compounds that does everything, that's not necessarily a good thing, it is a hit in every assay. When you google compounds and they are antifungal, antidiabetic, antibacterial, anticancer, etc., it isn't a reason to get excited, they have no specificity. Source: I work in natural products chemistry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-assay_interference_compounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-assay_interference_compoun... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/12/curcumin-will-waste-your-time http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/12/cur...

adrr 8y ago
I also hate the term anticancer which gets tossed around a lot. Everything that is toxic to human cells is anticancer which is what chemotherapy does. If we found a substance that wasn't toxic to normal cells and killed cancer cells, we'd have a safe cure for cancer.
- 1812Overture 8y ago
  Amazing health breakthrough! Our product Nature Farms Pure Organic Battery Acid kills one hundred percent of cancer cells in lab tests!
  - subcosmos 8y ago
    Pure organic is great, but I won't use batteries unless they are vegan.

kaybe 8y ago

I'm not sure I completely trust research done on HeLa cells. Those things are seriously weird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa PS: On the other hand, if something kills those things..

phkahler 8y ago
Know what's really funny? Iodine kills HeLa cells, but according to this paper that's a problem: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24219135 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24219135 Iodine has been claimed to induce apoptosis in a number of cancer types while remaining harmless to normal cells.
- subcosmos 8y ago
  Interesting, I wonder if it's linked with thyroid hormones. In culture, that would seem odd, unless it's binding to receptors in a manner that hormones would, or competing with hormones in the growth serum? I'm only a make-believe biologist.
  - phkahler 8y ago
    I'm beginning to think the thyroid hormones are just a storage mechanism for iodine. The hormones T1, T2, T3, and T4 are actually named for the number of Iodine atoms in the molecule.