Prevent Alzheimers with Turmeric

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TweetHeres a true story about turmeric and the drug companies battle against it. Turmeric is proven to be a Cox-2 inhibitor, which is part of the inflammatory response. Cox 2 is an enzyme that converts arachadonic acid to prostaglandins which cause pain. Drug companies make Billions of dollars annually from the sale of NSAIDS, non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs. Long term use of these drugs have dire side effects. So the drug companies are not happy about a cheap spice that does what their expensive and dangerous drugs do. Yes, follow the money.
They have tried to discredit turmeric and even tried to get it banned.
Everyone should be getting some turmeric every single day.

If you do have a medical or biochemistry background or are simply curious why and how, let me explain. To get specific, curcuminoids have the ability to inhibit activation of the transcription factor. That's called your nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kB). Now, your nulcear factor-kappa B is a potent inducer of chronic inflammation.

You certainly want to get rid of inflammation in your body, especially in your brain. You don't want inflammation to encourage plaques and amyloids to form in your brain or in other organs.

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