How turmeric kills cancer and how to optimize curcumin absorption

Adapted from article by Michael Edwards of Organic Lifestyle Magazine. Article here:
https://www.naturalnews.com/048579_turmeric_curcumin_bioavailability_cancer_remedy.html

Turmeric is a bright yellow root with a tan skin that is typically used in Middle Eastern, Northern African, and Southeast Asian cuisine.

Turmeric is one of the main ingredients in curry spice blends, and it makes a great addition to soups, meats, salads, stir-fry dishes, and more. It’s a versatile herb that enhances the flavor of a great many dishes.

Curcuminoids are the beneficial compounds within turmeric. Specifically, curcumin, one of these specific compounds, is considered to be the most potent, medicinally powerful, cancer-killing component of turmeric. Curcumin helps to detoxify and rejuvenate the liver, reduces negative effects of iron overload (and this is important because iron with sweet wormwood is a powerful cancer killer too), increases antioxidant capacity in the body, regenerates brain cells and improves cognitive function, reduces likelihood of and treats Alzheimer’s, is anti-inflammatory, reduces heart disease risk, reduces depression, and fights premature aging.

How does curcumin kill cancer? Because…It does appear to literally kill cancer.

The Murderous Aspect Of Curcumin

The human body contains approximately 10-13 trillion cells. We replace these cells at the rate of approximately 100 to 130 billion each day. A tightly regulated, cell- suicide process known as programmed cell death or apoptosis destroys cells.

Curcumin activates the death receptors through many different means, ways we are still learning. One of the more interesting ways is by activating enzymes that literally chop up the proteins within the cells. It is believed that one of the reasons cancer cells do not develop some sort of resistance to curcumin like they do with chemo drugs, is due to the fact that curcumin activates the cells death in so many different ways. We also don’t know exactly why curcumin doesn’t kill normal healthy cells, but it doesn’t. It seems to simply target the cells that were supposed to have already died.

Our bodies want to dispose of most of the curcumin we eat. Without help, our ability to absorb curcumin would be very low.

How to Increase the Bioavailability of Curcumin

The only problem with curcumin is that our liver, in an effort to prevent excessive drugs and supplements and such, inhibits most of the absorption of curcumin (a process called glucuronidation), which makes the compound much less effective than it could be. But there are ways to increase the body’s ability to absorb curcumin.

Mix Turmeric With Black Pepper

Piperine is the alkaloid responsible for the pungency of black pepper. This compound inhibits certain enzyme metabolism functions, which normally cause the disposal of what the body considers to be excess curcumin (this effect is not limited to curcumin, black pepper can increase the absorption of other supplements, too). Curcumin absorption increases up to 2,000% or more with just a small amount of piperine.

Consume Turmeric with Beneficial Fats

Curcumin is fat-soluble. Without fat, the compound doesn’t dissolve properly, and then curcumin has a tough time getting into the gut and being absorbed into the bloodstream and then into the cells that needs the compound.

Try consuming turmeric with healthy fats like avocado, olive oil, and coconut oil.

Eat Turmeric With Quercetin

Quercetin is a plant flavonoid that inhibits the enzyme that deactivates curcumin.

Foods high in quercetin include red wine, red grapes, onions, green tea, apples, cranberries, blueberries, black plums,
red leaf lettuce, raw kale, chicory greens, raw spinach, sweet peppers, snap beans and raw broccoli.
The best whole food source of quercetin is capers.

(Capers are actually the immature, dark green flower buds of the caper bush (Capparis spinosa or Capparis inermis), an ancient perennial native to the Mediterranean and some parts of Asia. To preserve capers, cooks pickle them in a brine of vinegar, salt, or wine, or they salt-cure them.)

If you’re looking to kill cancer, or get the other benefits from turmeric, don’t just pop a few curcumin pills. We are discovering the incredible synergistic relationships of many different foods. The best way to get your body to optimum health is to consume a wide variety of produce and eliminate toxic, refined foods.

Something yummy:  Enhanced Golden Milk Tea Recipe

This is a new twist on an ancient way of experiencing the benefits of turmeric. Ideally, use all fresh, unadulterated herbs whenever available.

1 cup of warm Coconut Milk
1 ounce of turmeric juice, or 1 tablespoon of freshly grated turmeric (both should be with skin)
1 teaspoon ground Cinnamon
1 ounce of ginger juice or 1 tablespoon of freshly grated ginger (both should be with skin)
1 pinch of black pepper
Pinch of cayenne pepper

Mix it all up and drink. For the drink to be warm, warm up the coconut milk only, but be careful not to cook the other ingredients. Add them in when the coconut milk is not too hot to drink so as to preserve enzymes and other fragile micronutrients.

Conclusion

For maximum potency and absorption, we recommend fresh, raw turmeric root with its skin, taken as mentioned above, as well as cooked turmeric with skin.  You can also buy it in jars, already with black pepper as one of the blended ingredients.

Other websites for natural cures for all kinds of things:

http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com

http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com

http://tv.greenmedinfo.com

http://medicalxpress.com

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://news.bbc.co.uk

http://naturalsociety.com

http://www.quercetin.com

http://examine.com

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