“However, to our surprise part of our Asian patient population showed only moderate improvement or no response at all. Since the Asian cuisine uses a big variety of spices in the daily nutrition, we asked the question whether turmeric (haldi), which is widely used in curries, could possibly contribute to the poor outcome of this treatment. Besides serving as spice, turmeric was and still is widely used for wound healing and skin lightening in Asia . Its major active yellow pigment is curcumin (diferuloyl methane). There is substantial literature on curcumin, describing anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory as well as anti-carcinogenic properties. However, high concentrations can lead to reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation via semiquinone radicals.”
I have had great results as you can see from my pictures and I did cut down about 90% of my tumeric intake. I just buy mustard without tumeric and Mexican foods without tumeric because those were my two main sources of tumeric in my diet. Before my treatment, I was eating tumeric five out of seven days per week. Now I eat it once per week at the most and that is normally at a restaurant or prepared/packaged food. This isn’t the only change I have made, but it was easy to do this for me. I figured it helped somebody so I might as well do it too. :)
