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Is Curcumin Contributing To India's Low Rate Of Alzheimer's Disease?


Date: 03/02/05
 
In recent years, studies have shown that curcumins antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties may be powerful enough to break up the amyloid plaques in the brain that contribute to Alzheimers disease. The rate of Alzheimers in India (where curcumin is widely consumed) is among the lowest in the world.

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I have a friend who lived for a few months on East 7th Street in Manhattan. One of the things he liked most about living there was the close proximity of a dozen or so Indian restaurants located in his area. Any time he liked, he was only two minutes away from a wonderful Indian meal.

Just one problem: The constant aroma of Indian spices became so overpowering that he finally had to move out. He knew hed had enough when a freshly laundered shirt had a faint smell of curry. As it turns out, if my friend had stayed there and continued to eat frequent Indian meals, he might have helped make his body more resistant to inflammation, free radical damage and perhaps even Alzheimers disease (AD).

Plaque buster

Curcumin is a yellow pigment in the root of turmeric, a herb in the ginger family. Curry gets its distinct colour and flavour from curcumin, which was used by Indian Ayurvedic healers for thousands of years to treat a variety of ailments, including indigestion, jaundice, arthritis, and urinary tract disorders.

In recent years, studies have shown that curcumins antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties may be powerful enough to break up the amyloid plaques in the brain that contribute to Alzheimers disease. The rate of Alzheimers in India (where curcumin is widely consumed) is among the lowest in the world.

The most recent research to examine the effects of curcumin on AD comes from US researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In this study, the UCLA team injected curcumin into ageing mice with advanced amyloid accumulation in the brain. As reported last month in the US Journal of Biological Chemistry, the researchers observed that curcumin was able to cross the blood-brain barrier and bind to beta amyloid. This binding effectively blocked amyloid plaque aggregation . . .
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Comments

Andy Lovell Posted 22/01/2010

This is a great article and this site is a wonderful source of information. Thank you.

Ben Horwitz Posted 01/05/2010

Excellent article! I've started a campaign with curcumin as recommended by a friend who has study alzheimer's extensively

Siddharth Bargate Posted 04/05/2010

After extensive research on the beneficial effects of pranayama Yoga during last several years,on millions of people in India,Swami Ramdevji has declared on India & International TV channels that it has been proved that Yoga Pranayam (Breathing Technique Yoga) cures all diseases completely without medicine or surgery.Guru Ramdev Baba says that Pranayam Yoga is the complete Ancients Indian Therapy,which is the Medical Science in itself that cures any physical or mental medical condition completely,without any side effects.



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