COCONUT OIL ENHANCES KIDNEY FUNCTION

". . . coconut oil enhances kidney function . . . because it supplies myristic acid, the 14-carbon saturated fatty acid."

from Weston Price Foundation . . . .

Saturated Fats and the Kidneys

Posted on September 30, 2000 by Mary Enig, PhD • 1 Comment

One of the body’s most important organs is the kidney. Properly functioning kidneys are essential for maintaining proper blood volume and composition; for filtering and excreting or saving various chemical metabolites; and for helping to maintain proper blood pressure. Hypertension (high blood pressure) is known to result from improperly functioning kidneys. Research carried out during the last few years indicates that both saturated fat and cholesterol play important roles in maintaining kidney function, as do the omega-3 fatty acids.

The kidneys need stable fats both for their cushioning and as their energy source. We know that the kidney fat normally has a higher concentration of the important saturated fatty acids than are found in any of the other fat depots. These saturated fatty acids are myristic acid (the 14-carbon saturate), palmitic acid (the 16-carbon saturate), and stearic acid (the 18-carbon saturate). When we consume various polyunsaturated fatty acids in large amounts, they are incorporated into kidney tissues, usually at the expense of oleic acid, because the normal high level of saturated fatty acids in the kidney fat does not change.1

A species of rat known to be prone to strokes and to spontaneously develop hypertension (high blood pressure) has been used to evaluate effects of different lipids such as plant sterols or cholesterol, and also fatty acids such as omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids in the finely tuned functions of the kidney. These animals are very sensitive to dietary cholesterol manipulations and a deficiency of cholesterol in their membranes makes their membranes weak and fragile. When plant sterols found in vegetable oils are substituted for cholesterol in their diets, these animals have a shortened life span.2Also, these animals are reported to need a proper omega-6 to omega-3 ratio in the kidney phospholipids. It was further reported that feeding oils high in omega-6 fatty acids without omega-3 fatty acids resulted in renal injury, and that feeding oils rich in the omega-3 fatty acids such as fish oil, perilla oil, and flaxseed oil prolonged the survival time of this animal.3

The omega-3 fatty acids are recognized as being important, and the conversion of the flax oil-type omega-3 fatty acid (alpha-linolenic acid) to the fish oil-type omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) is enhanced when the diet contains saturated fat such as coconut oil. This conversion is hindered when there is extra omega-6 oils in the diet.4 Injury to the kidney from immune dysfunction (IgA nephropathy) responds to omega-3 fats (both flax oil-type omega-3 and fish oil-type omega-3).5 As noted, adding the saturated fats, especially coconut oil, improves the body’s use of omega-3 fatty acids.

Another reason that coconut oil enhances kidney function is because it supplies myristic acid, the 14-carbon saturated fatty acid.6 Myristic acid is involved in the signalling from cell membrane receptors through G proteins and their attachment to membranes. These signalling proteins require a lipid such as myristic acid to be added to one end of the protein, a process called myristolation.7

Thus, the fats that we recommend for general good health, namely various saturated animal fats and tropical oils, along with a supplement of flax oil, are also specifically helpful for kidney function. Products containing high omega-6 oils and trans fatty acids should be avoided.

REFERENCES

    1.   Suarez et al, Lipids 1996;31:345; Taugbol and Saarem, Acta Vet Scand 1995;36:93

    2.   Ratnayake, et al, J Nutrition 2000;130:1166

    3.   Miyazaki et al, Biochim Biophys Acta 2000;1483:101

    4.   Gerster, Int J Vitam Nutr Res 1998;68:159

    5.   Kelley, ISSFAL, 2000;7:6

    6.   Monserrat et al, Res Exp Med (Berl) 2000;199:195

    7.   Busconi and Denker, Biochem J 1997;328:23

This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Fall 2000.

"The law prohibits the IRS from using liens or levies to collect any individual shared responsibility payment."

This was interesting. But when you're dealing with the IRS, I would be very careful. Okay, so current federal law prohibits the IRS from using liens to collect "failure to pay" responsibility tax under Obamacare. "The law prohibits the IRS from using liens or levies to collect any individual shared responsibility payment." However, the IRS may offset that liability against any federal refund that may be due to you. So there's that. Anyway, have a listen. It's worth hearing and considering.

"Even the most aggressive cancers which have metastasized have been reversed with baking soda cancer treatments." 

from HealthFreedoms.

Even the most aggressive cancers which have metastasized have been reversed with baking soda cancer treatments. Although chemotherapy is toxic to all cells, it represents the only measure that oncologists employ in their practice to almost all cancer patients. In fact, 9 out of 10 cancer patients agree to chemotherapy first without investigating other less invasive options.

Doctors and pharmaceutical companies make money from it. That’s the only reason chemotherapy is still used. Not because it’s effective, decreases morbidity, mortality or diminishes any specific cancer rates. In fact, it does the opposite. Chemotherapy boosts cancer growth and long-term mortality rates and oncologists know it.

A few years ago, University of Arizona Cancer Center member Dr. Mark Pagel received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effectiveness of personalized baking soda cancer treatment for breast cancer. Obviously there are people in the know who have understood that sodium bicarbonate, that same stuff that can save a person’s life in the emergency room in a heartbeat, is a primary cancer treatment option of the safest and most effective kind.

Studies have shown that dietary measures to boost bicarbonate levels can increase the pH of acidic tumors without upsetting the pH of the blood and healthy tissues. Animal models of human breast cancer show that oral sodium bicarbonate does indeed make tumors more alkaline and inhibit metastasis. Based on these studies, plus the fact that baking soda is safe and well tolerated, world renowned doctors such as Dr. Julian Whitaker have adopted successful cancer treatment protocols as part of an overall nutritional and immune support program for patients who are dealing with the disease. The Whitaker protocol uses 12 g (2 rounded teaspoons) of baking soda mixed in 2 cups water, along with a low-cal sweetener of your choice. (It’s quite saltytasting.) Sip this mixture over the course of an hour or two and repeat for a total of three times a day. One man claims he has found a cure for cancer using baking soda and molasses and actually successfully treated his own disease by using baking soda.

When taken orally with water, especially water with high magnesium content, and when used transdermally in medicinal baths, sodium bicarbonate becomes a first-line medicinal for the treatment of cancer, and also kidney disease, diabetes, influenza and even the common cold. It is also a powerful buffer against radiation exposure, so everyone should be up to speed on its use. Everybody’s physiology is under heavy nuclear attack from strong radioactive winds that are circling the northern hemisphere.

Dr. Robert J. Gillies and his colleagues have already demonstrated that pre-treatment of mice with baking soda results in the alkalinization of the area around tumors. The same researchers reported that bicarbonate increases tumor pH and also inhibits spontaneous metastases in mice with breast cancer.

What is Baking Soda?

Baking soda is a white crystalline solid that appears as fine powder. It is also called cooking soda, bread soda and bicarbonate of soda. Its chemical name is sodium bicarbonate or sodium hydrogen carbonate.

Baking soda is different from washing soda (sodium carbonate) although they share the same slightly salty and alkaline taste.

This widely used soda is commonly dissolved in mineral water and used as a leavening agent in baking. It works as a leavening agent by neutralizing the acidic components of batter. The neutralization releases carbon dioxide and leads to the “raising” or expansion of baked foods.

Baking soda has also been used to soften vegetable and to tenderize meat.

As a household chemical, baking soda is used as a cleaning agent. It is included in toothpastes for similar reasons where it serves as an antiseptic, acid-neutralizer, whitening agent and plaque-removing agent as well as a cleaning agent.

Other common personal hygiene products in which baking soda can be found include deodorants and shampoos.

Baking Soda and pH Medicine

The pH of our tissues and body fluids is crucial and central because it affects and mirrors the state of our health or our inner cleanliness. The closer the pH is to 7.35-7.45, the higher our level of health and wellbeing. Staying within this range dramatically increases our ability to resist acute illnesses like colds and flues as well as the onset of cancer and other diseases. Keeping our pH within a healthy range also involves necessary lifestyle and dietary changes that will protect us over the long term while the use of sodium bicarbonate gives us a jump-start toward increased alkalinity.

The pH scale is like a thermometer showing increases and decreases in the acid and alkaline content of fluids. Deviations above or below a 7.35-7.45 pH range in the tightly controlled blood can signal potentially serious and dangerous symptoms or states of disease. When the body can no longer effectively neutralize and eliminate the acids, it relocates them within the body’s extra-cellular fluids and connective tissue cells directly compromising cellular integrity. Conversely when the body becomes too alkaline from too much bicarbonate in the blood, metabolic alkalosis occurs, which can lead to severe consequences if not corrected quickly.

JonBarron presents a way of looking at pH that opens up one of the major benefits of alkaline water:

Hydrogen ions tie up oxygen. That means that the more acid a liquid is, the less available the oxygen in it. Every cell in our body requires oxygen for life and to maintain optimum health. Combine that with what we know about hydrogen ions and we see that the more acid the blood (the lower its pH), the less oxygen is available for use by the cells. Without going into a discussion of the chemistry involved, just understand that it’s the same mechanism involved when acid rain “kills” a lake. The fish literally suffocate to death because the acid in the lake “binds up” all of the available oxygen. It’s not that the oxygen has gone anywhere; it’s just no longer available. Conversely, if you raise the pH of the lake (make it more alkaline), oxygen is now available and the lake comes back to life. Incidentally, it’s worth noting that cancer is related to an acid environment (lack of oxygen)–the higher the pH (the more oxygen present in the cells of the body), the harder it is for cancer to thrive.

Understanding this is important for two reasons: (1) it reveals one of the primary benefits of alkaline water–more “available” oxygen in the system and (2) it explains why alkaline water helps fight cancer.

How Baking Soda Can Help “Cure” Cancer

Basically, malignant tumors represent masses of rapidly growing cells. The rapid rate of growth experienced by these cells means that cellular metabolism also proceeds at very high rates.

Therefore, cancer cells are using a lot more carbohydrates and sugars to generate energy in the form of ATP (adenosine triphosphate).

However, some of the compounds formed from the energy production include lactic acid and pyruvic acid. Under normal circumstances, these compounds are cleared and utilized as soon as they are produced. But cancer cells are experiencing metabolism at a much faster rate. Therefore, these organic acid accumulate in the immediate environment of the tumor.

The high level of extracellular acidity around the tumor is one of the chief driving force behind the metastasis of cancer tumors.

Basically, cancer cells need an acidic environment to grow and spread rapidly.

Some cancer experts, therefore, believe that by buffering the tumor micro-environment with an alkalizing compound, the pH of tumors can be raised enough to starve them and stop their growth and spread.

Curiously, this rather simple solution to cancer has been proven right.

What is even more remarkable is that there is no need to cook up some fancy synthetic drug to lower the acidity in the immediate environment of the tumor. A simple, commonly obtained compound like sodium bicarbonate will do.

Obviously, it is desirable to deliver the sodium bicarbonate as close to the tumor as possible since its pH-raising effect is needed in the micro-environment of the tumor. Therefore, directly injecting sodium bicarbonate in the tumor site is considered a better solution than oral administration. However, oral sodium bicarbonate is just safer and can be readily used at home.

A 2009 study published in the journal, Cancer Research, is among the first to confirm that the alkalinizing effect of sodium bicarbonate can indeed stop cancer.

By injecting sodium bicarbonate into a group of mice, the authors of the study were able to determine how the growth and spread of cancer tumors were effected by raising the pH of the organ affected by the cancer.

The study results showed that baking soda indeed raised the pH and reduced spontaneous metastases in mice induced with breast cancer.

The researchers also determined that sodium bicarbonate works by raising the pH outside cells and not within cells. This is an important finding because it suggests that sodium bicarbonate does not interfere with cellular metabolism even as it makes the microenvironment unconducive for tumor growth.

Other findings from this study show that baking soda:

§          Reduced the involvement of the lymph node on the transport of cancer cells

§         Does not lower the levels of circulating tumor cells

§         Reduced the involvement of the liver and, therefore, the spread of tumor cells to other organs

§          Inhibit the colonization of other organs by circulating tumor cells

§   

The Baking Soda Formula for Cancer

To make the baking soda natural cancer remedy at home, you need maple syrup, molasses or honey to go along with the baking soda.

In Dr. Sircus’ book, he documented how one patient used baking soda and blackstrap molasses to fight the prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones. On the first day, the patient mixed 1 teaspoon of baking soda with 1 teaspoon of molasses in a cup of water.

He took this for another 3 days after which his saliva pH read 7.0 and his urine pH read 7.5.

Encouraged by these results, the patient took the solution 2 times on day 5 instead of once daily. And from day 6 – 10, he took 2 teaspoons each of baking soda and molasses twice daily.

By the 10th day, the patient’s pH had risen to 8.5 and the only side effects experienced were headaches and night sweat (similar to cesium therapy).

The next day, the patient had a bone scan and too other medical tests. His results showed that his PSA (prostate-specific antigen, the protein used to determine the severity of prostate enlargement and prostate cancer) level was down from 22.3 at the point of diagnosis to 0.1.

Another baking soda formula recommends mixing 90 teaspoons of maple syrup with 30 teaspoons of baking soda.

To do this, the maple syrup must be heated to become less viscous. Then the baking syrup is added and stirred for 5 minutes until it is fully dissolved.

This preparation should provide about 10-day worth of the baking soda remedy. 5 – 7 teaspoons per day is the recommended dose for cancer patients.

Care should be taken when using the baking soda remedy to treat cancer. This is because sustaining a high pH level can itself cause metabolic alkalosis and electrolyte imbalance. These can result in edema and also affect the heart and blood pressure.

One does not have to be a doctor to practice pH medicine. Every practitioner of the healing arts and every mother and father needs to understand how to use sodium bicarbonate. Bicarbonate deficiency is a real problem that deepens with age so it really does pay to understand and appreciate what baking soda is all about.

Baking soda provides amazing results on kidneys.  Read on . . . . 

Obama Administration Suppressed FDA Warning About Mercury In Dental Fillings

by Dale Steinreich

The proposal, approved by top FDA officials in late 2011 and kept secret since, would have told dentists they should not use mercury fillings in cavities in pregnant women, nursing moms, children under 6 and people with mercury allergies, kidney diseases or neurological problems.  It also urged dentists to avoid using fillings that contain mercury compounds in any patient, where possible.

Lobbying against any changes is the American Dental Association which has a political action committee that donated almost $2.5 million to Congressional candidates from 2013 to 2014.

Read the rest, including a few case studies that suggest that the FDA is likely understating the problem.

Of course progressives want even more government involvement in health care since it’s such a “neutral party.”  Sure.  Funny how so many of them still vehemently defend “Obamacare,” a scheme first concocted and embraced by conservative Republicans.

Do not get fillings.  Do not let dentists scare you into getting fillings or amalgam fillings.  Instead, eat a nutrient dense diet with good fats and proteins.  Doing so will help you remineralize your teeth.  Also, don't get your wisdom teeth pulled.  You want to keep as many of your teeth as possible.

SUGAR DOESN'T FEED CANCER OR STIMULATE IT TO GROW . . . INSULIN DOES

"Sugar doesn’t feed cancer or stimulate it to grow . . . Insulin does."

Excellent discussion on how to treat cancer, all kinds of cancer, by focusing on methionine restriction.  Apparently, animal protein, and protein of all kinds, is high in methionine.  So the goal, according to Mark Simon, is to restrict production of methionine in order to restrict the growth of tumors and to shrink them.  One diet that helps achieve this is an all-fruit diet for 6 weeks.  Fruit has very little methionine.  Fruits also contain protein, and therefore contain methionine, so you'll want to consume fruits with lower levels of methionine.  What this restriction does is create an oxidative condition inside the cancer cells.  Remember that cancer cells do not do well in an oxygenated environment.  A lot of people take anti-oxidant supplements to fight cancer cells.  Turns out that anti-oxidants have a protective effect on cancer cells by protecting the protein outer layer of the cancer cell.  What you want to achieve, according to Simon, is to pierce through and break that hard protein shell on the cancer cell and oxidize it.  What confuses me a little is that a lot of fruits naturally contain anti-oxidants, like Vitamin C, E, and others.  If one is supposed to avoid anti-oxidant supplements, how then or why would a diet rich in fruit be beneficial whereas anti-oxidant supplementation would not?

Next, one will have to deal with the problems with eliminating the cancer tissue.  As the cancer cell tissue breaks up it is still toxic.  Perhaps no longer cancerous but still poisonous to your digestive system and blood stream where it has to pass through during elimination.

One product that Simon recommended was Sodium Selenite.  Most brands cost under $20 with some costing as little as $6.  It sounds like a powerful cancer treatment.  WiseGeek has this to say about Sodium Selenite:

Chemical selenium from sodium selenite has both advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is that the supplement is antimicrobial. Another is that of all the inorganic forms of selenium, including monoselenodiacetic acid and selenomethionine, sodium selenite has proven the most successful in thwarting cancer in lab tests. A disadvantage, aside from the alleged toxicity, is that the sodium-selenium compound is not as bioavailable as natural selenium.

What Sodium Selenite does, according to Simon, is it provides the enzymes necessary to break up cancer.  As part of the all-fruit diet, he highlights the powers of pineapple and papaya.

Life Extension points out the benefits of taking all 3 forms of selenium:

Generally, we ingest selenium from a variety of plant and animal sources in several different forms, each of which has its own unique suite of activities. The three forms of selenium most important in cancer prevention are sodium selenite, L-selenomethionine, and selenium-methyl L-selenocysteine.

These three compounds differ in the way your body handles them, and in their impact on your risk for cancer.31 For example, the organic selenium compound L-selenomethionine is better absorbed than inorganic sodium selenite.32 But inorganicsodium selenite more effectively increases genetic expression of the main selenium-containing antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase.33In general, the three selenium compounds complement one another in the ways they affect your body's expression of important proteins involved in cancer prevention and suppression.34 In addition, all three selenium compounds induce cell death in various cancer types, but each compound is better at destroying some cancers than others.34,35Within the organic compounds, differences exist. L-selenomethionine increases cancer cell death by apoptosis, for example, only in cells with an intact "suicide" gene called p53.34 Selenium-methyl L-selenocysteine, on the other hand, induces apoptosis in mutated cancer cells that lack this vital control mechanism.34The totality of this data indicates why both the organic forms of selenium (L-selenomethionine and selenium-methyl L-selenocysteine), plus inorganic sodium selenite, are required to kill off all incipient cancer cells that might be developing in your body.

Chris points out, too, that it isn't the sugars that makes a tumor or cancer to grow; it is something else.  Insulin does.  Insulin is a tumor-growth promoter.

Here are the show notes to Chris' video:

Show Notes

– Mark discusses his background

– Mark discovers research on methionine restriction to starve cancer cells  [2:37]

– The two steps of methionine restriction to trigger cancer cell death [4:50]

– The food group lowest in methionine [6:37]

– The powerful anti-cancer enzymes in pineapples and papayas [9:21]

– How enzymes lower inflammation [11:00]

– When fruit can be a problem [13:01]

– Sugar doesn’t feed cancer or stimulate it to grow, something else does [13:36]

– Foods that are high in tumor growth hormone IGF-1 [14:21]

– Key anti-cancer supplements for this protocol [15:06]

– The best forms of selenium to take for prevention and therapeutically [17:00]

– How selenium affects cancer cell metabolism [18:36]

– The importance of Vitamin K3 in this protocol [20:14]

– Oxidative therapy vs anti-oxidant therapy [21:23]

– How certain supplements can cancel each other out  [22:16]

– The benefit of water fasting [23:45]

– How quickly does this protocol work? [24:43]

– The danger of rapid tumor die off [27:37]

– Important detoxification methods to include [28:01]

– Pain medications promote tumor growth [30:19]

– How constipation keeps your body toxic  [32:19]

– His advice for cancer patients [32:43]

If you are interested in finding out more about the NORI Protocol, visit the Nutritional Oncology Research Institute website www.noriprotocol.com

Candice-Marie Fox used the NORI protocol to heal her stage 4 thyroid cancer.

Watch our interview here.

Another survivor who reversed her brain cancer with a high fruit diet is teenager Megan Sherow. Watch our interview here.

Check out all the natural survivors I’ve interviewed here.

If you’re looking for survivors of specific types of cancer, use the search bar at the top right of my site.

Chris Vark Interviews Oncology Nurse, Valerie Warwick

Chris Vark of Chris Beat Cancer interviews retired oncology nurse, Valerie Warwick.  She says that cancer is a survival response.

Cancer manifests itself because it is trying to survive some serious ailment in your body.

"Don't patients get nutritional advice from their doctors?"

"Oh, yeah, right."

"Patients are nutritionally devastated."

What about Vitamin C? Low blood platelet caused one patient to bleed everywhere. He had cracked lips. He was depleted. The nurse suggested Vitamin C, because she thought his symptoms looked like scurvy.

Vitamin C is an antioxidant that your body uses to combat free radicals.  If you've accepted chemo-therapy as a cancer treatment, it will for sure, 100% sure, deplete your body's Vitamin C stores and let the free radicals reign in your system.

"Chemotherapy drugs are bought at a discount from the mfg.  60% of oncologist revenue comes from chemotherapy drugs."  So there's that.

Chris:  "All of it seems like criminal negligence . . . to me."

Valerie:  "Yeah . . . it is."

They're not allowed to offer any other therapies.  they'll be shunned by their peers.  They'll get reported to the board.  They'll lose their license.  It's a very tight peer group thing.  "You're not one of those [who preaches Vitamin C], are you?"  

Nurses know what's up.  And are carefully trying to give good advice.  

Curaderm?  Made from eggplant.  

She got reported to the board of nursing for a product that was not FDA-approved.  

American people do not know that doctors are not allowed to prescribe anything other than surgery, chemo, or radiation for cancer treatment. Doctors are trapped in a system that pays them really well, to keep doing what they're doing despite miserable results.  

System has been hijacked by pharmaceutical companies.  There's a pill for every ill.  And they pooh-pooh the nutrition.  Can't say that nutrition cures or reverses disease.  And it's really all about diet.  

At the 32-minute mark, Chris asks Valerie about Ozone therapy.  Now remember, she is an oncology nurse so her realm is how cancer responds to certain treatments.  And ozone therapy works well on cancer for the main reason that ozone is concentrated oxygen and cancer does not thrive in oxygenated environments.  

Your Feet Help You Sleep

Keep your feet bare during sleep. Your feet and hands help reduce 
your body's temperature. The cooler your temperature the more readily will your body induce sleep.  

"Majority of cancers are not life-threatening and they’re not emergency situations.  Most people diagnosed with cancer feel fine."

Be sure to check out all of the resources on this site. For cancers of any kind, you'll want to take a look at Chris Wark's site.

Turmeric: The Spice

GreenMedInfo is really pushing the benefits of turmeric, touting that the spice has "600 experimentally confirmed health benefits."  Sayer Ji, the founder of GreenMedInfo, produced a video highlighting the archives on his site for all things turmeric.

In fact, he's got 1,800 per reviewed studies and abstracts at his site. Interesting.  

So how effective is turmeric in addressing specific conditions or diseases? Can't say for sure.  Everything I read says that turmeric is the number one spice for treating heart attacks to viral infections to brain injuries.  That's quite a scope of ailments.  I know that when I consume turmeric and combine it with ginger in my morning milk, turning it into a morning turmeric milkshake, my stomach feels better.  Or at least I think that is what is happening.  I'd like to think that my stomach is the center of my overall health and that as such if it feels stronger and well, all other organs in my body from feet to brain are doing better as well.  I can hope, can't I?

One recent article, thought it's not so recent, cites specific compounds within turmeric that are capable of increasing the number of neurons. That's what he says:

The study [conducted by researchers at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine in Julich, Germany] found that when brain cells were exposed to ar-tumerone, neural stem cells increased in number through enhanced proliferation.  Moreover, these newly formed neural stem cells also increased the number of fully differentiated neuronal cells, indicating a healing effect was taking place. This effect was also observed in a live animal model, showing that rats injected with ar-tumerone into their brains experienced increases in neural stem cell proliferation and the creation of newly formed healthy brain cells.

That sounds hopeful.  But what does that mean and what was the percentage of increase, 1%, 5%, 25%, 50%?  And what parts of the brain did the study find is responsible for neural repair?  

WHAT'S THE BEST FORM OF TURMERIC TO TAKE?

Sayer Ji explains:

For instance, if you have colonic inflammation or polyps, and you are trying to use turmeric to reduce inflammation there or regress precancerous growths, then using the whole plant is best versus a highly bioavailable form of curcumin in capsule form (e.g. Meriva), for instance, which will likely be absorbed by the small intestine and mostly pass through the liver never getting adequate quantities to the large intestine. So, in this person's case taking a teaspoon of relatively difficult to absorb turmeric may result in painting the diseased surfaces of that person's intestinal or colonic lumen with exactly the form needed to reverse disease. 

Again, promising news on how turmeric can treat cancer.  But what about the brain?  

But what if you have someone who wants to experience a systemic effect, say, for arthritis or for brain cancer? In these instances, getting turmeric compounds such as curcumin through the glucuronidation barrier in the liver with a phospholipid-bound or black pepper (piperine) combination could be ideal.

INCORPORATE TURMERIC INTO YOUR DIET: IT'S BETTER FOR YOU THIS WAY

Ultimately, the goal is not to wait to have such a serious health problem that you have to force yourself to take a 'heroic dose' of any herb or food extract. Better is to use small amounts in culinary doses in combination with ingredients that synergize on a physiochemical/informational and sensual basis (producing the all important vitamin P [pleasure] as well!). Recently we actually featured a study that showed culinary doses of rosemary helped improve memory whereas higher 'heroic' doses impaired it!

This is why exploring the use of turmeric in curries, or by adding a pinch in a smoothie, may be an ideal daily supplementation approach, versus capsules, whose questionably 'natural' capsules and excipients all can add up to cause some stress on the liver you are trying to protect with these natural interventions.  Just remember quality is everything and less is more!