San Jose Chiropractic Nutrition Tip: Black Pepper & Turmeric
Black Pepper. Turmeric. Are they simply spices? Not at all! Black pepper and turmeric have long histories as seasonings and medicines. Such spicy histories! Chiropractic Solutions reveals some of the more recent reports about the benefits of turmeric and black pepper: antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and even anti-cancer. San Jose chiropractic patients are healthy people often looking for a healthier approach to disease prevention and management. Chiropractic Solutions adds some spice to this healthier way of life and San Jose back pain relief!
Chiropractic Solutions seeks out healthier approaches to living just as chiropractic demonstrates itself to be for our San Jose chiropractic patients and families at Chiropractic Solutions. Adding some spice is one such way. Research coming out of South Asia and Middle East countries - where spices are integral to traditional foods of the region – brings indications of cure for centuries despite lacking scientific explanation thus far. Today, biologists are studying spices’ medicinal value and showing evidence for the antimicrobial effects they have and just how they may halt the progression of microorganisms. (1) San Jose chiropractic patients and families appreciate that extra value of their spicy food! Chiropractic Solutions does!
The spices black pepper (peperine) and turmeric (curcumin and curcuminoids) work well together. Asian foods have tasted better and been healthier for years! Curcumin and other curcuminoids – chemical compounds in turmeric – are antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial in nature. Black pepper – akin to capsaicin – heightens the power of turmeric. Not being very bioavailable on its own, curcumin’s absorbability is boosted by black pepper. One study explains that if 2 grams of curcumin are taken alone, serum levels remain low. If it’s taken with 2mg of black pepper, its absorbability increased 2000%! Together, black pepper and turmeric offer to control obesity, high cholesterol and diabetes; relieve peptic ulcers (by preventing H-pylori bacteria growth); prevent some cancers, reduce pain even possibly neuropathic pain (by starting transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1); and alleviate inflammatory conditions (rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis and the like). (2) Chiropractic Solutions is well aware of inflammation’s role in back pain be it chronic or acute. San Jose inflammation takes part in disease and in back pain. San Jose chiropractic care via spinal manipulation and nutrition advice relieves back pain and related inflammation.
Some of the most astonishing research on the value of spices like black pepper and turmeric point to their effects on prevention and treatment of cancers. Lung, liver, breast, stomach, colorectal, cervix and prostate cancers seem to respond well to black pepper, turmeric, black cumin, ginger, garlic, saffron and chili pepper. These spices have bioactive compounds – curcumin, thymoquinone, piperine, capsaicin - that promote cell death, halt tumor creation, movement and attack, and prepare tumors to be sensitive to radiation and chemotherapy treatments. (3) When a San Jose cancer patient is dealing with cancer, these responses to spices like black pepper and turmeric are certainly positive!
Schedule a San Jose appointment with Chiropractic Solutions to chat about how black pepper and turmeric might spice up your life enough to relieve pain as part of your healthy San Jose chiropractic treatment plan.
