Manahawkin Chiropractic Nutrition Idea: Black Pepper & Turmeric
Black Pepper. Turmeric. Are they simply spices? No! Black pepper and turmeric have lengthy histories as seasonings and medicines. Such spicy histories! Manahawkin Chiropractic Center shares some of the more recent reports about the benefits of turmeric and black pepper: antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and even anti-cancer. Manahawkin chiropractic patients are healthy people often looking for a healthier way to disease management and prevention. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center adds some spice to this healthier approach and Manahawkin back pain relief!
Manahawkin Chiropractic Center looks for healthier approaches to living just as chiropractic demonstrates itself to be for our Manahawkin chiropractic patients and families at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center. Adding some spice is one such way. Research in South Asia and Middle East countries - where spices are integral to traditional foods of the region – brings indications of cure for centuries despite deficient in scientific explanation thus far. Today, biologists are examining the medicinal value of spices and showing support for the antimicrobial effects they have and just how they may halt the progression of microorganisms. (1) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center would surmise that Manahawkin chiropractic families and patients would embrace the bonus benefit of spicy food’s value!
The spices black pepper (peperine) and turmeric (curcumin and curcuminoids) work together well. Asian foods have always been tastier and more full of healthful benefits! Curcumin and other curcuminoids – chemical compounds in turmeric – present natural benefits like being anti-fungal, anti-oxidant, antiseptic, anti-bacterial, and anti-inflammatory. Black pepper – similar to capsaicin – heightens the potential of turmeric. Not being very bioavailable on its own, curcumin’s absorbability is boosted by black pepper. One study reports 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); avert some cancers, reduce pain even potentially neuropathic pain (by triggering transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1); and alleviate inflammatory conditions (rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis and the like). (2) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is well aware of inflammation’s role in back pain be it chronic or acute. Manahawkin inflammation plays a role in disease and in back pain. Manahawkin chiropractic care via spinal manipulation and nutrition advice helps back pain and related inflammation.
Some of the most amazing research on the value of spices like black pepper and turmeric indicate their effects on prevention and treatment of cancers. Lung, liver, breast, stomach, colorectal, cervix and prostate cancers appear 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 encourage cell death, stop production, migration and invasion of tumors, and prepare tumors to be sensitive to radiation and chemotherapy treatments. (3) When a Manahawkin cancer patient is fighting cancer, these reactions to spices like black pepper and turmeric are certainly good!
Schedule a Manahawkin appointment with Manahawkin Chiropractic Center to discuss how black pepper and turmeric might spice up your life enough to relieve pain as part of your healthy Manahawkin chiropractic treatment plan.
