Curcumin- the natural wonder supplement

I first became aware of curcumin about 5 years ago, in about 2005.  The first three years of my cancer experience had been filled with conventional therapies- chemo, radiation and surgery- all to no effect.  Other than a host of short, long term and late stage side effects.

I first read about curcumin's anti-myeloma affects.  And one study after another, I learned about the wide ranging benefits of curcumin supplementation.

"Curcumin is an active component of turmeric (Curcuma longa), used as a spice and as an Ayurvedic medicine for centuries on the Indian subcontinent. Curcumin has been shown to suppress carcinogenesis of the skin, liver, lung, colon, stomach, and breast. It has also been shown to inhibit the proliferation of a wide variety of tumor cells in culture and promote apoptosis through Bid cleavage, cytochrome C release, caspase-9 activation and then caspase-3 activation. Curcumin has been shown to lower blood cholesterol, promote wound healing, prevent skin wrinkling, inhibit inflammation, suppress rheumatoid arthritis, and inhibit human immunodeficiency virus replication. Curcumin mediates this wide variety of therapeutic effects through the regulation of the transcription factors nuclear factor-kappa B and activator protein, suppression of IκBα kinase and c-jun N-terminal kinase, and inhibition of expression of cyclooxygenase 2, cyclinD1, adhesion molecules, matrix metalloproteases, inducible nitric oxide synthase, HER2, epithelial growth factor receptor, bcl-2, bcl-xl, and tumor necrosis factor. Pharmacologically, curcumin is quite safe, and doses as high as 8 g/day have been administered orally to humans with no side effects. Numerous therapeutic activities as outlined above, its pharmacological safety and its color qualifies curcumin as “Indian solid gold.""

To go to read the entire article-

http://www.curcuminresearch.org/