http://blog.grasslandbeef.com/bid/93177/Diabetes-Super-Treatment-Hiding-in-Plain-Sight?utm_source=Newsletter+2015%2F11%2F08&utm_campaign=151108&utm_medium=email
100,000 times more potent than metformin!!!
GRRRRRR
This sort of thing makes me very VERY angry. All of us here realize how potent diet is in bolstering health, but bitches like this, who claim that eating an occasional curry is equivalent to a CURCUMIN experiment, make everyone look stoopid.
No wonder most of my friends don't believe certain foods impact health. Frauds and grifters dominate the conversation with their ravings about the benefits of junk and unrealistically-necessary quantities of medicinal substances. Resveratrol, raspberry ketones, acai, blueberries, cinnamon, turmeric....
If these shills REALLY had the well-being of their fellow humans at heart, we'd get rational, practical, PRACTICABLE recommendations, with caveats for those who might have trouble with their suggestions.
NO. We get blanket raves for dangerous exercises and worthless "supplements" of things NOBODY needs. Hypothetical tweaks that were never tested. Extrapolation of the results of one group to entirely different and inappropriate groups.
When reputable INDIVIDUALS present these promoters, they're lending a mantle of respectability where it is not deserved. It doesn't matter whether or not they're on our LC or clean-food team -- if they're not being scientifically straight, they're the enemy of the message, and i resent it.
Because I base all my dietary decisions on diabetic rats in Bangkok,don't you??? I can't help but see the author is making BREAD out of whatever.
ReplyDeleteI wish US meats would stick to selling meats and promoting kick butt recipes. I agree, I resent the random making claims. Sets us back a few steps. Sigh.
Sigh, indeed! Their meats are terrific, but their columnists ... not so much.
DeleteOne of the studies in the article look s good
ReplyDeletehttp://www.researchgate.net/publication/259825766_Reduction_of_atherogenic_risk_in_patients_with_type_2_diabetes_by_curcuminoid_extract_A_randomized_controlled_trial
Reduction of atherogenic risk in patients with type 2 diabetes by curcuminoid extract: A randomized controlled trial
How much was used, and how does it equate to using whole turmeric spices? I don't doubt that some of these things are effective (there seem to be a lot of studies which confirm each other) -- what gets my goat are the gurus (and wanna-bes) who claim that since concentrated alkaloids are beneficial, the foods or herbs which contain them will be, in much smaller quantities. :-(
DeleteThanks for looking the studies up, and sharing.
"ll participants were instructed to take three capsules with blinded labels of either curcumin or placebo twice a day (total of six capsules per day) for 6 months continuously. Each curcumin capsule has curcuminoid content of 250 mg. Each placebo capsule contains 250 mg of starch. Patients were asked to bring all capsules back when having follow-up visits at 3 and 6 months for assessing their compliance."
Delete"Curcumin and identical placebo capsules were manufactured by the Government Pharmaceutical Organization of Thailand. Dried rhizomes of turmeric (C. longa Linn.) grown in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand, were ground into powder. The turmeric powder was extracted with ethanol and evaporated at low pressure to obtain ethanol extract in the form of semisolid containing oleoresin and curcuminoids. Oleoresin was
then removed to yield curcuminoid extract (total curcuminoids content is between 75% and 85%). The peak ratio of curcumin: demethoxycurcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin in the extract was determined by high-performance thin-layer chromatography.
The extract (calculated for 250 mg of curcuminoids) was capsulated under the Good Manufacturing Procedures standard."
yes, i'm sure the dose DOES equate to a huge amount of the spice....
Delete"each curcumin capsule has curcuminoid content of 250 mg. Each placebo capsule contains 250 mg of starch."
ReplyDeleteSo did the circumin do good or did the starch do bad, or both?
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probably both, indeed. they say, the reason homeopathy works for some people (and animals, i hear) is that those who use it are no longer using PHARMACEUTICALS. ;-)
Deletei phrased that badly, and damned Blogger won't let me edit....
Deletemeant to say, taking away a bad thing is frequently all one needs to do -- adding a good thing is icing-on-the-cake.
Tess, you're missing an opportunity here. I can envisage a whole line of saffron coloured, health-giving clothes. You want to wear a healthy turmeric stained shirt don't you?
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lol -- yellow isn't really my color, but amber doesn't look too mad on me....
DeleteHi, Tess, I'll be coming through St. Louis in a few weeks. Let me know if you'd like to get together!
ReplyDeleteindeed i would! email me at tessmck2012@gmail.com
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