Turmeric is a food. And I think I speak fairly when I say 99 percent of the people on this forum (maybe 100 percent) are open minded and are not afraid to try new foods. Indian Food is awesome. How I take turmeric is I place some canned chicken (you can also use a cooked chicken breast) in a food processor, then place it in a frying pan with a little olive oil and this madras curry (organic, available at whole foods and other health food stores) and add a fair amount of turmeric powder (also a 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper) and stir it up while warming it (a crushed garlic clove and a hot pepper helps also). Eat it as a dip with baked organic corn chips.
Turmeric is a food. And I think I speak fairly when I say 99 percent of the people on this forum (maybe 100 percent) are open minded and are not afraid to try new foods. Indian Food is awesome. How I take turmeric is I place some canned chicken (you can also use a cooked chicken breast) in a food processor, then place it in a frying pan with a little olive oil and this madras curry (organic, available at whole foods and other health food stores) and add a fair amount of turmeric powder (also a 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper) and stir it up while warming it (a crushed garlic clove and a hot pepper helps also). Eat it as a dip with baked organic corn chips.
We just made some steamed brussel sprouts, sliced in half, and sprinkled with Turmeric, Sea Salt, Garlic and Black Pepper...very nice! We also take a daily Turmeric supplement. We've only eaten Indian Food several times from a restaurant, it's VERY good, but very expensive with small portions. Have to get busy some day and attempt to make my own!
PS: Oops! Forgot the Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Light Olive Oil mix , would be a bit dry without it!
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We just made some steamed brussel sprouts, sliced in half, and sprinkled with Turmeric, Sea Salt, Garlic and Black Pepper...very nice! We also take a daily Turmeric supplement. We've only eaten Indian Food several times from a restaurant, it's VERY good, but very expensive with small portions. Have to get busy some day and attempt to make my own!
I am what is known as a pepper head. I love extremely hot food and many Indian (and some thai) restaurants deliver the extreme heat, if you explain to the waiter/waitress that you want it double indian hot or double thai hot. Unfortuanetely in pittsburgh and cleveland, the price of a great indian meal is pricey. A lot of great food (indian and japanese) is quite pricey. At least thai food is resonably priced.
I believe that some plants and herb are not bioavailable (not absorbed well); because the immune system want it to be this way. Take yucca for example. It has a very large amount of steroidal saponins. This is very good and make yucca a very desirable health building herb. The plant steroids really help with blood pressure; better than statins IMO. Saponins provide a lot of benefits in the gut such as helping the flora, reducing inflammation, binding cholesterol and enhancing nutrient absorption. But they are not absorbed from the gut because they will destroy red blood cells. They result in the lysis of the blood cells, haemolysis, like all detergents, and is therefore highly toxic. Saponins base are the basic of many arrow poisons.
I have not found that turmeric (curcumin) contain such saponins. However, I do get concerned when companies try to increase the absorption of some compounds that are normally poorly absorbed, such as curcumin. Maybe there is a reason it is poorly absorbed in to the bloodstream and it should be kept that way.
So no Bioprine or black pepper for me when taking an herb in larger quantity for a health concern. No problem with using as a cooking spice.
I do take curcumin in larger quantity and with other herbs. I figure that like diatomaceous earth, if I take enough throughout the day, I'm bound to get enough silica which is also poorly absorbed.
I'm just sayin'
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I believe that some plants and herb are not bioavailable (not absorbed well); because the immune system want it to be this way. Take yucca for example. It has a very large amount of steroidal saponins. This is very good and make yucca a very desirable health building herb. The plant steroids really help with blood pressure; better than statins IMO. Saponins provide a lot of benefits in the gut such as helping the flora, reducing inflammation, binding cholesterol and enhancing nutrient absorption. But they are not absorbed from the gut because they will destroy red blood cells. They result in the lysis of the blood cells, haemolysis, like all detergents, and is therefore highly toxic. Saponins base are the basic of many arrow poisons.
I have not found that turmeric (curcumin) contain such saponins. However, I do get concerned when companies try to increase the absorption of some compounds that are normally poorly absorbed, such as curcumin. Maybe there is a reason it is poorly absorbed in to the bloodstream and it should be kept that way.
So no Bioprine or black pepper for me when taking an herb in larger quantity for a health concern. No problem with using as a cooking spice.
I do take curcumin in larger quantity and with other herbs. I figure that like diatomaceous earth, if I take enough throughout the day, I'm bound to get enough silica which is also poorly absorbed.
I'm just sayin'
Interesting, the thing with diatamaceous earth (and horsetail tea) is teh silica particles are extremely small and have a large surface area, so you will get an enhanced solubility,
, would be a bit dry without it!
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