Chiropractic Solutions Highlights Curcumin's Benefit for Neurological Diseases
4000 years of use. That’s quite a history! Curcumin owns it. (Chiropractic delights in its 125-year history!) Curcumin’s history of dietary use in Eastern countries like China and India gives much fodder to researchers to study just what an influence it has on disease. And there is a difference! Curcumin‘s anti-inflammatory ability is finding recognition for positive influence on neurological diseases, cell death, and pain. Chiropractic Solutions remains interested in curcumin’s beneficial role in possible inflammation and San Jose back pain reduction.
CURCUMIN HISTORY
Curcumin holds an expansive history of usage going back 4000 years (1) yet a briefer history of use currently for its ability to control levels of a variety of brain neurotransmitters along with preventing 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 additional clinical studies back then to put curcumin into therapeutic use due to 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 reduce or stop reactive astrocyte expression and thereby preventing cell death is beneficial. (3) Your San Jose chiropractor understands the role of cell death in degenerative spinal conditions like disc disease and appreciates the potential curcumin has in addressing cell death and decreasing inflammation and thereby reducing San Jose back pain.
CURCUMIN DIET AND SUPPLEMENTATION
What is the optimal way to incorporate curcumin for maximal benefit? Diet and/or supplementation. A curcumin rich diet is written to offset diseases like cancer and diabetes as well as decrease inflammation. A new paper on curcumin reveals the role of curcumin in treating neurological diseases (spinal muscular atrophy, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis and more). In an effort to bring more attention to curcumin’s benefits, the researchers share the cellular and molecular mechanisms and clinical trial outcomes of using curcumin in healthy people and people with such diseases. (1) Chiropractic Solutions knows many San Jose chiropractic patients would like the simpler supplementation route which is quite simple and effective. Chiropractic Solutions will suggest what is right for you and your San Jose chiropractic treatment plan.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jeremy Heidt on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he presents 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 San Jose chiropractic appointment at Chiropractic Solutions today. Don’t wait 4000 years to realize that curcumin may well benefit you, your pain and/or your neurological disease.
