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How WHOLE Turmeric Heals The Damaged Brain

by Sayer Ji

Long considered impossible to accomplish, new research reveals how a simple spice might contribution to the regeneration of the damaged brain. Read More

Excerpt:

Turmeric is hands down one of the, if not the, most versatile healing spice in the world with over 600 experimentally confirmed health benefits, and an ancient history filled with deep reverence for its seemingly compassionate power to alleviate human suffering.

But, most of the focus over the past decade has been centered on only one of its many hundreds of phytocompounds: namely, the primary polyphenol in turmeric known as curcumin which gives the spice its richly golden hue. This curcumin-centric focus has lead to the development of some very good products, such as phospholipid bound curcumin concentrate (e.g. Meriva, BCM-95) which greatly helps to increase the absorption and bio-activity of curcumin. But, curcumin isolates are only capable of conferring a part of turmeric's therapeutic power – and therein lies the limitation and hubris of the dominant 'isolate the active ingredient' model.

Full article:

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/how-whole-turmeric-heals-damaged-brain-1

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