Vancouver Chiropractic Nutrition Tip: Black Pepper & Turmeric
Black Pepper. Turmeric. Just spices? No! Black pepper and turmeric have lengthy histories as flavorings and medicines. Such spicy histories! Vancouver Disc Centers discloses some of the more recent reports about the benefits of black pepper and turmeric: antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and even anti-cancer. Vancouver chiropractic patients are healthy people often pursuing a healthier approach to disease prevention and care. Vancouver Disc Centers adds some spice to this healthier way of life and Vancouver back pain relief!
Vancouver Disc Centers looks for healthier approaches to living just as chiropractic demonstrates itself to be for our Vancouver chiropractic patients and families at Vancouver Disc Centers. Including some spice is one such way. Research coming out of South Asia and Middle East countries - where spices are fundamental to traditional foods of the region – presents indications of cure for centuries despite deficient in scientific explanation as of yet. Today, biologists are examining the medicinal value of spices and showing evidence for the antimicrobial effects they have and just how they may halt the progression of microorganisms. (1) Vancouver chiropractic patients and families are grateful for that extra value of their spicy food! Vancouver Disc Centers 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 – offer natural benefits like being anti-fungal, anti-oxidant, antiseptic, anti-bacterial, and anti-inflammatory. Black pepper – akin to capsaicin – improves the power of turmeric. Curcumin is not very bioavailable, so black pepper lets it be absorbed better. One study reports that if 2 grams of curcumin are taken alone, serum levels remain low. If it is taken with 2mg of black pepper, its absorbability rose 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, lessen pain even possibly neuropathic pain (by causing transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1); and alleviate inflammatory conditions (rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis and the like). (2) Vancouver Disc Centers is well aware of inflammation’s role in back pain whether it is chronic or acute. Vancouver inflammation plays a role in disease and in back pain. Vancouver chiropractic care via spinal manipulation and nutrition advice relieves back pain and related inflammation.
Some of the most amazing 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 contain bioactive compounds – curcumin, thymoquinone, piperine, capsaicin - that promote cell death, stop tumor creation, movement and attack, and sensitize tumors to radiation and chemotherapy treatments. (3) When a Vancouver cancer patient is dealing with cancer, these responses to spices like black pepper and turmeric are certainly good!
Schedule a Vancouver appointment with Vancouver Disc Centers to talk about how black pepper and turmeric just may spice up your life enough to reduce pain as part of your healthy Vancouver chiropractic treatment plan.
