Why Curcumin is Poorly Absorbed
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 31 October 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Curcumin has amazing benefits. But, it’s poorly absorbed in the body. Learn why and how to increase absorption.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:16.0 | Not sure if you knew this or not, but curcumin is very poorly absorbed. |
| 0:27.0 | Now, what is curcumin? That is the main polyphenol or phytonutrient in the spice turmeric. |
| 0:33.1 | Now, curcumin has some seriously powerful antioxidant properties, and it's a very powerful anti-inflammatory. |
| 0:41.6 | It's very effective in exercise-induced inflammation, muscle soreness, exercise recovery, |
| 0:49.1 | all the arthritises, both osteo and rheumatoid. It's also good for your mood, like in anxiety. It's been shown |
| 0:56.4 | to be very effective in metabolic syndrome, and it's also effective in degenerative eye conditions, |
| 1:02.5 | like lecoma, cataracts, problems with your retina. And it's very popular around the world. India uses |
| 1:09.4 | it in all their curries. The U.S. just sell supplements. |
| 1:12.8 | In Thailand, they use it in cosmetics. In China, they use it as a colorant to color certain things |
| 1:17.7 | because of the pigment. In Korea, they use it in a drink. Malaysia, they use it as an antiseptic. |
| 1:24.3 | Pakistan, they use it as an anti-inflammatory. In Japan, you can find it in a tea. |
| 1:29.3 | But the question is, why doesn't absorb that well? Well, because it's fat-siable. |
| 1:34.3 | So unless you're taking in a certain way, you're not going to probably absorb as much as you |
| 1:39.1 | think. There are three things that can help you increase the absorption. The first one is to add |
| 1:43.1 | another phytonutrient from black pepper called piperine. You want to consume that at the same time. |
| 1:49.6 | So a lot of times when you're taking curcumin, it's already coming with this black pepper extract |
| 1:53.8 | piperine, which will increase the absorption by 2,000%. Now the next thing you can do to increase |
| 1:59.9 | absorption is to consume it with some fat. |
| 2:02.8 | It can be fat from an avocado. It can be fat from your meals, from your meats, from eggs. It doesn't |
| 2:08.7 | matter. But anytime you're taking a fat-siable vitamin, whatever it is, you're going to absorb |
| 2:13.1 | more of it if you take it with a fat. And the last thing you can do is you can heat it slightly. |
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