Posted by Larry Hoover on January 25, 2007, at 14:50:42
In reply to Re: Curcumin - HPA axis » Larry Hoover, posted by dessbee on January 25, 2007, at 14:11:11
> > 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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> I recalculated and got 23.3 gram of turmeric.
> That is alot of turmeric! On average an Indian consumes 2.5 gram of turmeric.
>Ooops! That'll teach me to pick up my calculator, rather than winging it. That is a very lot of turmeric.
Lar
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