Posted by dessbee on January 25, 2007, at 14:11:11
In reply to Re: Curcumin - HPA axis » linkadge, posted by Larry Hoover on January 24, 2007, at 17:13:31
> > Curcumin was probably one of the most effective antidepressants I have tried.
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> > Did you see the study that suggested that extracts of curcumin were more effective than fluoxetine at reverseing depressive like behaviors in mice?
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> > Lnkadge
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> Did you use turmeric, or a curcumin extract?
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> If you do the math, to get 10 mg/kg curcumin, with curcumin at about 3% by weight in turmeric, you'd need 7 grams a day for a 70 kg individual. That's enough to play havoc with COX, but it's unclear what the long-term consequences of that might be.
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> Lar
>I recalculated and got 23.3 gram of turmeric.
That is alot of turmeric! On average an Indian consumes 2.5 gram of turmeric.
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