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Yes, turmeric isn’t a nutrient, it’s a spice made up of nutrients. Believe it or not vitamins and minerals are nutrients. In nutrition science vitamins and mi
by will_brown 8y ago
Yes, turmeric isn’t a nutrient, it’s a spice made up of nutrients.
Believe it or not vitamins and minerals are nutrients.
In nutrition science vitamins and minerals are generally referred to as micronutrients whereas fats, sugars, proteins are referred to as macronutrients.
And no macros are not all absorbed the same. As a general rule the longer someone’s intestines the more macro absorption they will have than someone with a shorter intestinal track. As I have already suggested digestive enzymes play a role, so if someone ate black pepper as I suggested before, that will secrete more digestive enzymes allowing for more absorption of calories and macros. There is also gut bacteria (microbiome) take for example the study of African twins where one is healthy and the other malnourished, where it was determined the malnourished twin with the same diet wasn’t absorbing the same amount of nutrients as the healthy twin because of the difference in their microbiome.
- JohnJamesRambo 8y agoI'm sorry but you really don't know what you are talking about. I think you have accumulated a lot of repeated information from blogs and shoddy websites instead of from science. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=calories+black+pepper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=calories+black+pep... This is the only reference I see in pubmed for calories and black pepper and it says black pepper raises the resting metabolic rate, nothing about absorption. And it shows black pepper reducing obesity which would be the opposite of what you are describing.
- will_brown 8y ago>”piperine is the major active component of black pepper and, when combined in a complex with curcumin, has been shown to increase bioavailability by 2000%.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664031/