Turmeric: the latest fad that has been around for thousands of years

If you are reading this article, you can't have missed the trend of people having their "Golden Latte" or "Golden Milk" every morning. This golden milk is a mix of turmeric root juice with almond, cashew or coconut milk. Turmeric is what gives it its golden color. Same for curry - it is turmeric that gives curry its shiny yellow aspect.

But this is not just a latest fad: turmeric has been used for its therapeutic benefits for thousands of years by the ancient Chinese, ancient Greeks, ancient Romans, and by the Indians in Ayurvedic medicine. They have been using it for its ability to restore, heal, and prevent infections or diseases.

The most active component of turmeric is Curcumin - a potent antioxidant that kills off free radicals. Those free radicals make you age, increase your overall physical stress at a cellular level, and damage your system, therefore contributing to the weakness of your immune system and the start of chronic diseases or infections.

1. Powerful Anti-Inflammatory Effect

Turmeric is very rich in nutrients and minerals, such as Manganese, Iron, Potassium, Magnesium, Vitamin B6, Vitamin C and fibers. All those nutrients help decrease inflammation in your body and restore balance where it is needed.

Inflammation may play a key role in every chronic disease like heart disease, diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, atherosclerosis, degenerative disorders, Alzheimer's, or even cancer. Therefore it is important to prevent and decrease inflammation to help your body function optimally.

The way curcumin fights inflammation is at cellular level: it prevents the transfer of a molecule that triggers the genes related to inflammation. The anti-inflammatory effects of curcumin are actually compared to those of prescription drugs, but without the harmful side effects.

2. A Potent Antioxidant

Free radicals are very damaging compounds that come from all stressors around you - the environment, polluted air, toxins in water and food. They make you age faster, and are probably at the root of many diseases.

Turmeric is very rich in antioxidants that stay in your body and protect you for several days. They help protect your brain, your liver, your kidneys, your heart - active throughout your whole body.

Studies show that turmeric helps your body manage oxidative DNA damage and stress in a more efficient way, by increasing cellular adaptation to stress.

3. Strong Prevention for Cancer and Alzheimer's

Turmeric may help prevent and even reverse cancer cell growth. The active substance curcumin targets different pathways to fight cancer cells:

• -It decreases the growth of new blood vessels in tumors
• -It inhibits the spread of cancer cells
• -It destroys cancer cells

Curcumin may also prevent and even treat neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and Alzheimer's disease. It does this by crossing the natural blood/brain barrier and breaking down the levels of plaque around the brain, increasing the amount of oxygen that is able to reach it. When curcumin crosses the blood/brain barrier, it also improves cognition by decreasing the degradation of neurons.

4. Other Health Benefits

Turmeric can also help prevent or decrease the symptoms of:

• -Liver disease: curcumin helps detoxify your blood and liver by neutralizing toxins in the bloodstream
• -Gastric ulcer
• -Hemorrhoids
• -Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBS)
• -Joint pain and arthritis (turmeric is taken orally as a supplement in some treatments)
• -Atherosclerosis
• -Insulin resistance: turmeric is often used to regulate blood sugar levels
• -Digestive help: turmeric stimulates the gallbladder, increasing bile secretion that facilitates digestion of foods and fats

Conclusion

Turmeric, thanks to its active component curcumin, is a powerful spice with powerful health benefits, especially regarding inflammation and cellular oxidative stress damage.

To fully benefit from all those benefits, it is better to supplement yourself with high concentrated turmeric extract.

Important tip: Add black pepper to increase its absorption by 2000%

As usual, choose a good organic pure source. Trust Nature - it's all there around us for a good reason.

In Health and Happiness,

Stephanie