A little turmeric… is all it takes!

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While the conventional disease industry continues to waste billions of dollars searching for a pharmaceutical-based silver bullet “cure” for dementia, a simple, inexpensive cooking spice made from a plant is already getting the job done. Taking as little as one gram, or roughly one-quarter of a teaspoon of turmeric powder or extract daily for three months, it turns out, is enough to show considerable improvements in dementia symptoms, multiple case studies show…

If you or a loved one suffers from Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia, there is hope and healing to be found in turmeric. Based on the recent findings of three independent case studies, turmeric, whose primary active ingredient is curcumin, has the power not only to heal both, the behavioural and the psychological symptoms associated with dementia, but can also potentially lead to full recovery in just a few months.

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A traditional cooking spice that has been used copiously throughout India and South-east Asia for many millennia, turmeric has been the subject of myriad scientific studies in recent years. The circulatory, digestive and neurological systems of the body, it turns out, are all positively affected by turmeric. The seemingly never-ending list of diseases for which the spice is known to provide healing is continually expanding.

This is definitely the case with regard to turmeric’s impact on cognitive health, as evidenced by a new research done in Japan. The chief physician at Kariya Toyota General Hospital in Kariya City evaluated three separate case studies involving turmeric and came to some fascinating conclusions about the herb’s therapeutic value. In each case, turmeric was shown to not only relieve dementia symptoms, but also improve overall cognitive function.

“In a study involving three patients suffering from  Alzheimer’s, whose cognitive decline and behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia were severe, exhibiting irritability, agitation, anxiety, and apathy; supplementation with turmeric powder capsules for over one year was found to be associated with improvement in symptoms,” wrote the authors of the study in their summary.

“Total score on the Neuro-Psychiatric Inventory-brief questionnaire decreased significantly in both acuity of symptoms and burden of caregivers after 12 weeks of treatment,” they added. “Score on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) went up five points (from 12/30 to 17/30) in one of the cases, and the other two cases were able to recognize their family within one year of treatment.”

Earlier research published in the journal Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, back in 2008, corroborates this fact, having found that turmeric’s natural antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and detoxifying mechanisms help improve memory in patients with dementia. Simply consuming more of this flavourful spice as part of one’s normal diet, in other words, has the potential to completely transform brain health and alleviate even the worst dementia symptoms. You may ask that even though turmeric is a part of daily diet of every Indian household then why is the disease on the rise in India? What you need to ask yourself is – are you consuming pure  organic, unadulterated spice or a pack of chemical laced, coloured powder you never paid  attention to?

“Curcumin as an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and lipophilic action improves the cognitive functions in patients with AD (Alzheimer’s Disease),” wrote the authors of this earlier study in their Abstract. “Due to various effects of curcumin, such as decreased Beta-amyloid plaques, delayed degradation of neurons, metal-chelation, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and decreased microglia formation, the overall memory in patients with AD has improved.”

Source- Natural News.com-  http://www.naturalnews.com/040858_turmeric_Alzheimers_Disease_dementia.html

References- The effect of curcumin (turmeric) on Alzheimer’s disease: Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781139/

Image: Turmericworld.com

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