It is a great spice to use in your cooking. But use only a pinch, it is very potent.
Tumeric is primarily for its color not so much for the taste.
Maybe for the dried stuff, but fresh turmeric tastes entirely different.
Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds
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#62Personal anecdote: was born and brought up in south India and my grandma used to make me drink turmeric + ground black pepper milk every night. It was a standard practice to serve it with black pepper, even though I’m sure they didn’t really know about bioavailability. Kids were forced to drink it when they have the flu. Used to hate it as a kid, but of late I’ve been looking to replace one coffee/tea with turmeric m…
Just curious: what's the amount of each ingredient that goes in one drink?
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#63Turmeric has been used in India since ancient times. There are many references to it in Ayurveda - the Indian/Hindu medical sciences. Ayurveda believes in using food as medicine to non only prevent a large majority of human diseases, but also to cure several of them — all with almost zero side effects. Turmeric is just one such extremely powerful & healthy food item that Western science seems to be playing catch up o…
The problem is it's hard to make money off of those things. There's strong evidence suggesting papaya seeds are remarkably good for purging parasites from the digestive system -- but why research it further when you can push Albendazole for $400/treatment?
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#64It’s great to see an 18 month double blind placebo controlled trial confirmed in western scientific terms what the great healers and masters have professed for years!
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How do you take it?
I buy bulk 95% powder, pop a piperine tablet, and dump 3/4 tsp of powder in my mouth - eating something with it to get it down. I experimented with mixing it with various things, but it's hydrophobic and stains everything bright yellow, so the quicker the better. I was mostly interested in the anti-inflammatory properties, my family is full of arthritis, and between climbing and typing, I started noticing some in my…
It does stain everything bright yellow!
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you take it?
I buy bulk 95% powder, pop a piperine tablet, and dump 3/4 tsp of powder in my mouth - eating something with it to get it down. I experimented with mixing it with various things, but it's hydrophobic and stains everything bright yellow, so the quicker the better. I was mostly interested in the anti-inflammatory properties, my family is full of arthritis, and between climbing and typing, I started noticing some in my…
Instead of taking tablets, try adding as an ingredient into your daily food. I think that will make it much easier to eat. Try cooking any Indian curries and turmeric is 90% of time default spice.
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#67Personal anecdote: was born and brought up in south India and my grandma used to make me drink turmeric + ground black pepper milk every night. It was a standard practice to serve it with black pepper, even though I’m sure they didn’t really know about bioavailability. Kids were forced to drink it when they have the flu. Used to hate it as a kid, but of late I’ve been looking to replace one coffee/tea with turmeric m…
Just curious: what's the amount of each ingredient that goes in one drink?
About a half-teaspoon or so of turmeric, and about a teaspoon of black pepper. A teaspoon of black pepper might be a bit aggressive, so adjust it to suit your taste, but my mom seems to think lots of pepper is necessary to reduce coughing/phlegm when you're down with a cold.
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Very interesting to see this posted. In Japan its ingredients are used in an anti-hangover drink, this youtube video https://youtu.be/Ij_aJI5O9Rs goes somewhat deeper into it, where the poster tried a combination of it and pepper to strengthen the effect.
Speaking of Japan, I recently saw an interesting video about why Japanese people are so thin, compared to say the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr4MmmWQtZM
Yeah, that's from the same channel :)
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I buy bulk 95% powder, pop a piperine tablet, and dump 3/4 tsp of powder in my mouth - eating something with it to get it down. I experimented with mixing it with various things, but it's hydrophobic and stains everything bright yellow, so the quicker the better. I was mostly interested in the anti-inflammatory properties, my family is full of arthritis, and between climbing and typing, I started noticing some in my…
Eating a spoonful of powder sounds like a nightmare I sometimes have.
Try mixing it with honey and have it, it will be much better.
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#70>Because curcumin's anti-inflammatory properties may protect the brain from neurodegeneration My very first question was: Please provide a possible physiological pathway for this. I'm so glad it was answered in the very first sentence. So many of these "Superfood does X" studies are just trials with 10 people over a month, with no explanation as to __how__ it could possibly happen. It significantly increases the skep…
Looking through the comments, I'm really glad I posted the paper itself to HN, rather than the various writeups of it.