OrthoIllinois Chiropractic Highlights Curcumin's Benefit for Neurological Diseases
4000 years of consumption. That’s some history! Curcumin has it. (Chiropractic delights in its 125-year history!) Curcumin’s history of dietary use in Eastern countries like China and India offers much fodder to researchers to examine just what an impact it has on disease. And there is a difference! Curcumin‘s anti-inflammatory property is finding recognition for positive influence on neurological diseases, cell death, and pain. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic remains interested in curcumin’s positive role in potential inflammation and McHenry back pain reduction.
CURCUMIN HISTORY
Curcumin possesses a long history of usage over 4000 years (1) yet a briefer history of use currently for its ability to modulate levels of a variety of neurotransmitters in the brain along with stopping cell death. Curcumin influences inflammatory cytokines, growth factors, and enzymes. (2) Ten years ago researchers suggested that curcumin could be a “future drug of therapy for the treatment of various neurological disorders.” Diabetic neuropathy, tardive dyskinesia, and major depression are a few of those such orders. They requested more clinical studies back then to place curcumin into therapeutic use because of its “neuroprotective action” in diseases like Alzheimer’s, tardive dyskinesia, major depression, epilepsy, and other such neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. Curcumin’s anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties may contribute to its neuroprotectiveness. Curcumin’s ability to slow or halt reactive astrocyte expression and thereby preventing cell death is beneficial. (3) Your McHenry chiropractor knows the role of cell death in degenerative spinal conditions like disc disease and appreciates the potential curcumin possesses in addressing cell death and reducing inflammation and thereby reducing McHenry back pain.
CURCUMIN DIET AND SUPPLEMENTATION
What is the optimal way to integrate curcumin for maximal benefit? Diet and/or supplementation. A curcumin rich diet is reported to offset diseases like cancer and diabetes as well as decrease inflammation. A recent paper on curcumin brings to light the role curcumin plays in treating neurological diseases (spinal muscular atrophy, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis and more). To bring more attention to curcumin’s benefits, the researchers share the cellular and molecular mechanisms and clinical trial outcomes regarding the use of curcumin in healthy people and people with such diseases. (1) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic knows many McHenry chiropractic patients would like the simpler supplementation route which is quite simple and effective. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic will share what is right for you and your McHenry chiropractic treatment plan.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jeremy Heidt on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares the benefits of anti-inflammatory efforts with curcumin in the relief plan for neck pain within the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your McHenry chiropractic appointment at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic today. You don’t have to wait 4000 years to understand that curcumin may well benefit you, your pain and/or your neurological disease.
