Curcurmin?

If it's going to help with pain, how long must I be taking it before I start to see any results?
I'm taking the Designs for Health brand, 400mg twice a day.

Curcumin or Tumeric based products are quite popular for natural relief instead of pharmaceutical anti-inflammatories like NSAID's. It works on some doesn't work on others. Like July said you can give it some time as well as up the dose to see if it helps you but for some it doesn't do anything (like my wife).

Chick-You might want to try Zyflamend by New Chapter. It's a natural anti inflammatory like Motrin or Advil but not hard on your kidneys.
www.newchapter.com/zyflamend/joint-relief-supplement?gclid=Cj0KEQiA5bvEBRCM6vypnc7QgMkBEiQAUZftQOHFa-Af6D5dVnmYma2g7vAbCd9P9vngF6484n-G5d4aAjFM8P8HAQ I've used it since it was recommended to me post spine surgery. I was told by the dept head at Whole Foods that New Chapter makes/processes their products differently than other companies which is what makes their products superior. From what I can tell it looks like lots of places are running specials for the month of January.

The one thing that has been by far the most effective at reducing my pain/inflammation is taking a high dose of Omega 3 twice a day. I take as per my LLND Ultimate Omega by Nordic Naturals. Unfortunately it's pricey and I take 6, 2 times a day.

Both will help with pain and migraines.

July-I saw a cooking segment on TV last week that mentioned that turmeric needed black pepper with it to be absorbed. I was surprised by that since I'd never heard that before-so were the hosts.

I looked up the Curcumin product I take which is Meriva 500-SF and it states this in it's product description:
Whether taken as a supplement or obtained from food, curcumin is normally poorly absorbed into the bloodstream. Utilizing a unique curcumin formula based on Indena S.p.A.’s proprietary “phytosome” technology, Meriva is a curcumin extract that is significantly better absorbed than other curcumin extracts.* A phytosome is a plant extract bound to a phospholipid (from sunflower oil in the case of Meriva 500-SF). Phospholipids are essential components of human cells, and although the body makes phospholipids, such as phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylserine, phospholipids can also be obtained from food or nutritional supplements. When taken orally, phospholipids are very well absorbed. The proprietary Indena S.p.A. phytosome technology utilized in Meriva 500-SF attaches a curcumin extract to a phospholipid obtained from sunflower oil, which optimizes the curcumin’s absorption. With Meriva 500-SF, the body readily absorbs the 500 mg of curcumin attached to a sunflower phospholipid, which results in more curcumin reaching the body’s cells that can benefit from it.*


I'm going to assume that there are other quality products that have also dealt with the absorption issue.

Post Edited (jrpsf) : 1/30/2017 10:22:32 PM (GMT-7)

I was taking Curcumin - but it didn't help with my pain.

So, I stopped.

julymorning said...
jrpsf, the article I linked did mention 3 other substances to take for co-absorbtion, but I couldn't pronounce them even, and didn't want to make a recommendation not knowing what the heck they are, lol.

My problem is I like to be able to retain info I find to help, in case the same thing comes up later. And who doesn't have pepper sitting around?

Agreed. I bookmark things for the same reason. I used to have a memory that stored the info nicely for me. Now, it might be stored but my filing system is completely out of whack.

Girlie-I'm on it more for vascular issues from Bart

I honestly don't know. There is a lot of crossover of symptoms between this and issues I was dealing with pre Lyme. That muddies a lot for me.

julymorning said...

ChickNorris said...
If it's going to help with pain, how long must I be taking it before I start to see any results?
I'm taking the Designs for Health brand, 400mg twice a day.

After replying to your other post this evening, I'm going to go ahead and suggest you might want to try Japanese Knotweed. Have you tried it before?

You should take a liver support with it, I take Milk thistle. Both are tinctures I got from Sage woman, smallest bottles just in case.

If you consider that I have been dealing with pain that continued to get worse and worse since my relapse 13 years ago that my Dr. put me on low dose narcotic pills, and that within a couple of months of still tittering up Japanese knotweed I was seeing enough relief from pain to cut my daytime dosage down to nothing at all most of the time(of pain pills), I am in love.

But, while it is great for hitting the inflammations of these infections and that's what Buhner recommends it for, among other uses, your response to it may not be the same.

I just think for something less than $20, it's worth a try. But like I said, get liver support too, and keep in mind I started at 1 drop twice a day, and built up slowly. I'm not even taking it yet as much as I could be!

Please look into studying Buhner's second edition book, or Cowdens, and think about really getting committed to this, as taking nothing won't heal you.

Is resveratol the same thing? Because that is in some of my supplements. I am taking samento and banderol still. The reason for the break was to get my sleep sorted and stabilized. My ND wanted to sort out if any of my symptoms were due to my insomnia which matches up with what I've read from other llmds like jemsek.

Did do adrenal testing. It was pretty good, just a slight rise in the afternoon. Addressing that with diet and herbs. Pain is the main factor. Which is why I'm trying the curcurmin! ;)

I use turmeric instead of curcumin, so I take higher doses - but I can't go more than 3 days without it before I really begin to feel an increase in pain in my small joints (hands and feet) and about 5 days and my large joints will begin to hurt.

It took me a month to tell much difference, but the real "test" was when I ran out after having been on it for a couple of months - boy, that was a wake up! LOL!

But, as others have said, it doesn't make a noticeable difference for every person that uses it. Some need pepperine added to it. The brand you are using has sunflower lecithin added, which should help it get absorbed better.

You may need a higher dose too. Just watch for "too much" bruising, as that is an indicator that you are taking too high of a dose, and you need to lower it back down.