Speeding Recovery from Surgery with Turmeric
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2015-11-09

The anti-inflammatory effect of curcumin, the pigment in the spice turmeric, was put to the test to see if it could reduce postoperative pain and fatigue after surgery.

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Here’s the video I mentioned on preventing gallstones in the first place: Cholesterol Gallstones (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cholesterol-gallstones/).

The “p value” I mention in the video refers to a measure of the strength of evidence. The smaller it is, the stronger the evidence is that the result they found didn’t just happen by chance. By convention, a p value under 0.05 is considered small enough for a result to be considered statistically significant. This means that you’d only expect to find a result that remarkable simply by coincidence 5% of the time, or in 1 out of 20 cases. So, a p value like the one in the study, less than .000, suggests you’d have to run the experiment thousands of times before you’d come up with such a dramatic result just by chance. 

Do the turmeric videos ever end? Here’s some on turmeric and cancer:
• Back to Our Roots: Curry and Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/back-to-our-roots-curry-and-cancer/)
• Carcinogenic Blocking Effects of Turmeric (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/carcinogen-blocking-effects-of-turmeric/)
• Turmeric Curcumin Reprogramming Cancer Cell Death (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/turmeric-curcumin-reprogramming-cancer-cell-death/)
• Turmeric Curcumin and Colon Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/turmeric-curcumin-and-colon-cancer/)
• Topical Application of Turmeric Curcumin for Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/topical-application-of-turmeric-curcumin-for-cancer/)
• Turmeric Curcumin, MGUS, and Multiple Myeloma (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/turmeric-curcumin-MGUS-and-multiple-myeloma)

And turmeric and a bunch of other conditions:
• Turmeric Curcumin and Rheumatoid Arthritis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/turmeric-curcumin-and-rheumatoid-arthritis/)
• Turmeric Curcumin and Osteoarthritis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/turmeric-curcumin-and-osteoarthritis/)
• Boosting the Bioavailability of Curcumin (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/boosting-the-bioavailability-of-curcumin/)
• Who Shouldn’t Consume Curcumin or Turmeric? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-shouldnt-consume-curcumin-or-turmeric/)
• Preventing Alzheimer's with Turmeric (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-alzheimers-with-turmeric)
• Treating Alzheimer's with Turmeric (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-alzheimers-with-turmeric)
• Turmeric Curcumin and Pancreatic Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Turmeric-Curcumin-and-Pancreatic-Cancer)
• Turmeric Curcumin vs. Exercise for Artery Function (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Turmeric-Curcumin-vs-Exercise-for-Artery-Function)
• Heart of Gold: Turmeric vs. Exercise (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-of-gold-turmeric-vs-exercise)

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