Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Highlights Curcumin's Benefit for Neurological Diseases
4000 years of use. That is 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 provides much fodder to researchers to study just what an impact it has on disease. And there is a difference! Curcumin‘s anti-inflammatory property is gaining credit for positive effect on neurological diseases, cell death, and pain. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation remains interested in curcumin’s beneficial role in possible inflammation and Carrolltown back pain reduction.
CURCUMIN HISTORY
Curcumin possesses a long history of usage over 4000 years (1) yet a shorter history of use in present day for its ability to modulate levels of various brain neurotransmitters in addition to preventing cell death. Curcumin affects inflammatory cytokines, growth factors, and enzymes. (2) Ten years ago researchers speculated that curcumin could be a “future drug of therapy for the treatment of various neurological disorders.” Diabetic neuropathy, tardive dyskinesia, and major depression are among those such orders. They recommended additional clinical studies back then to place 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 thus preventing cell death is beneficial. (3) Your Carrolltown chiropractor understands the role of cell death in degenerative spinal conditions like disc disease and appreciates the potential curcumin possesses in addressing cell death and decreasing inflammation and thereby decreasing Carrolltown back pain.
CURCUMIN DIET AND SUPPLEMENTATION
What is the optimal way to integrate curcumin for greatest benefit? Diet and/or supplementation. A curcumin rich diet is written to offset diseases like cancer and diabetes as well as reduce 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). To effect more attention to curcumin’s benefits, the authors present the cellular and molecular mechanisms and clinical trial outcomes regarding the use of curcumin in healthy people and people with such diseases. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation knows many Carrolltown chiropractic patients will go the supplementation route as it’s easy and effective. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation will share what is right for you and your Carrolltown chiropractic treatment plan.
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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 Carrolltown chiropractic appointment at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation today. Don’t wait 4000 years to realize that curcumin may well benefit you, your pain and/or your neurological disease.
