Try Some Turmeric
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Turmeric is a close relative of ginger – it has a similar knobbly root-like stem. The golden-hued powder of turmeric adds colour and flavour to food, but it’s also been linked to some surprising health benefits. As well as helping with wound healing and skin conditions, it’s been linked to better brain health. Michael Mosley speaks to Dr. Benny Antony from the University of Tasmania in Australia who has found that turmeric extract was as effective as ibuprofen to reduce pain levels. Meanwhile, our volunteer Yu She cooks up a storm with chicken korma and turmeric pancakes.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers. |
| 0:06.0 | But you sit down and be bright. |
| 0:08.0 | Celebrating women's voices. |
| 0:10.0 | You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn. |
| 0:14.8 | This is juicy. No limits, no limits. |
| 0:17.2 | Celebrating women. |
| 0:18.8 | Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out |
| 0:24.4 | where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself. |
| 0:28.8 | Lesson on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:37.0 | Ooh, wow. |
| 0:40.0 | We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're inundated with |
| 0:45.1 | often conflicting advice. |
| 0:47.3 | So if you were going to try just one thing to improve your mental and physical well-being, what should it be? |
| 0:53.4 | Perhaps the martial art of Tai Chi to improve your immune system, |
| 0:58.2 | maybe a few nuts to slow aging, or how about cleaning your teeth to give your brain a boost? I'm |
| 1:06.2 | Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode will explore |
| 1:11.0 | one thing you can start doing today to improve your health or life in ways you might not expect. |
| 1:21.0 | It's lunchtime and I'm throwing together a vegetarian carry. I've got the onions here and now they go into the frying pan. You can hear them sizzle away, leave that for a moment. And now to the most |
| 1:37.2 | important part. I'm about to add in something that could boost my mood and my memory and it may even reduce inflammation. |
| 1:44.6 | I'm adding turmeric. You can buy it fresh or as a dried spice which is what I'm using |
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