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Re: Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

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Post by jschwartzi »

taco_emoji wrote: post #78
swapsmagic wrote: post #66

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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.

Curry is delicious, but it'd get pretty boring to eat it EVERY day.

Which is why you change up the blend. For example I recently got sick of toasted black mustard seeds, so I stopped putting them in my beans. I might leave out clove, or add some allspice, etc. etc.

You've really got to change it up to keep on top of your spice game.

Re: Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

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Post by ccalvert »

adamc wrote: post #27
blacksmith_tb wrote: post #10

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For all the claims of bioavailability, I was surprised to see that Theracumin(R) doesn't seem to contain piperine[1] or any perines (which are usually in curry powder courtesy of black pepper). The 90mg dosage also seemed low, I have been taking 500mg of 95% extract daily for a couple of years. 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9619120

How do you take it?

We eat a lot of turmeric. If you go to an Indian grocery store, of which there are plenty in the Seattle area, you can buy it in bulk very cheaply. We are vegetarians, so we put it in lots of veggie based dishes, especially stir fries. Frankly, I'm not much of a cook, and adding turmeric and pepper to my meals has led me to experiment with lots of spices, and generally improve the taste of the food I eat. Yes, there have been low points, but overall, it works for us.

We cook in a Kirkland Cookware set which I believe is stainless steel. It is still the same color it was when we bought it. Our blender, on the other hand, is now a depressing yellowish green. But it works the same regardless of its color.

Re: Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

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Post by DiabloD3 »

iambateman wrote: post #106

Couple questions... I’ve read that Bromelain (from Pineapples) can help with sinus inflammation. Is there any indication about Turmeric helping with sinus inflammation? Silly question...is “inflammation” one thing? As in do brain inflammation and sinus inflammation go together? Finally, any resources on reducing inflammation generally?

Reducing inflammation is surprisingly easy, which is why most people just don't do it (they want an expensive magic pill instead of just using methods that actually work).

First, remove the largest inflammatory things from your diet: no grains, no refined sugars, no processed meat, no dairy (unless it is truly fermented, such as hard cheeses and true greek yogurt), and no legumes.

Second, walk about 2 miles a day (at least 5000 steps), and frequently (preferably every two days, but not everyone can do it this frequently) do lifting, preferring higher weight over higher reps.

Third, sleep properly. Enforce a proper sleep schedule as if it's the last thing you do, even if you have to wear sleep masks and avoid bright and/or blue artificial light like the plague.

Fourth, after the first one, still make sure you're getting the proper nutrition (focus on your minerals, you never get enough), and you may still have to supplement with a good vitamin. NOW Adam softgels is the least expensive one I know of that isn't garbage, and is a good base to build a supplement program around (if you choose to do that).

Re: Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

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Post by greyfox »

sincerely wrote: post #87
tomcam wrote: post #80

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Or an arguably more wholesome version of the YouTube meme of eating Tide pods

In 2012 there was a similar meme called the Cinnamon challenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_challenge

youtube dumbasses one-upping each other until they're literally eating poison

>meme

Re: Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

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Post by gopalv »

Karupan wrote: post #41

Personal 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…

> was born and brought up in south India and my grandma used to make me drink turmeric + ground black pepper milk every night

I grew up in a part of South India with a fairly high natural background radiation (thorium, mostly) and I did wonder if the practice boosted survival via accidental cancer protection from an alpha decay environment.

Natural selection is weird because the goal of taking turmeric might have nothing to do with the survival advantages.

Re: Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

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Post by jcims »

smellf wrote: post #92
jcims wrote: post #54

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Ever try filling your own capsules?

I have - filling by hand (set up opened capsule halves, pick up larger half, scoop and pack powder into it, close it with other half, repeat) for something you take daily gets really old really fast. If you know a better way I'm all ears, as I'd love to keep filling my own piracetam capsules (commercial caps are 800mg, way too strong for me) but hate actually doing it.

They make bulk capsule fillers that might help a little. It's still manual but not quite as fiddly. You can find them on amazon for ~$25

Re: Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

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Post by gopalv »

Karupan wrote: post #72
Florin_Andrei wrote: post #62

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Just curious: what's the amount of each ingredient that goes in one drink?

200ml of hot (not boiling) milk 1 tsp of ground turmeric powder A pinch or two ground black pepper If you’re not used to turmeric, I’d suggest starting with half tsp as it’s got quite a strong flavour (especially when not cooked with other spices)

> 200ml of hot (not boiling) milk

If you're lactose intolerant, you can do this with yoghurt with a little water & salt instead.

Since this usually happens when I do have a cold, my laziness translates into a coffee cup of yoghurt + water + 1 minute in a microwave to zap all the bacteria out of it.

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Post by mkempe »

quacker wrote: post #59
mkempe wrote: post #28

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Actually the age range was 51-84, so middle plus old age, not all "elderly". Normal people flourish and are in their prime around 50. Volunteers had "objective cognitive performance scores and clinical histories consistent with normal aging or MCI (i.e., mild neurocognitive disorder) and inconsistent with dementia (i.e., major neurocognitive disorder)." [emphasis added]

> Normal people flourish and are in their prime around 50 How do you mean? I don't think most people in their 50s would describe themselves as being "in their prime". For example, ELO ratings of Chess players tend to decline in their 30s[1]. For NBA players, their "prime" is typically the late 20s, with performance declining in their 30s. 1. https://www.chess.com/blog/LionChessLtd/age-vs-elo---your-ba...

Note that I wrote around 50, not after 50. Middle age is usually defined as the 40 to 60 range (or more recently held to be slightly later, 45-65). That is the period when people flourish. That is certainly not when people are "elderly." Interestingly the Ancient Greeks used to report the time when one flourished rather than their date of birth.

Neither extreme athletic performance nor ELO rating are measures of normal flourishing (I'm surprised one would bring up such abnormal elements; the lives of NBA players and elite chess players deviate very far from that of a normal human). I wonder how the kind of argument you offer, and that of the sibling "olympus" comment, feeds into reported ageism in SV and related tech companies.

Re: Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

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Post by iopuy »

kakarot wrote: post #102
michael_h wrote: post #47

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Eating a spoonful of powder sounds like a nightmare I sometimes have.

I used to have to do it every single morning for a bogus supplement pyramid scheme my guardian fell for. It doesn't get any less disgusting even after a couple years. They also sometimes made me drink hydrogen peroxide mixed with water, but that's another story.

This comment raises a lot of questions.
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