Boosting the Bioavailability of Curcumin
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2014-01-20

Dietary strategies, including the use of black pepper (piperine), can boost blood levels of curcumin from the spice turmeric by up to 2,000%.

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Why would we care about boosting curcumin levels? I started talking about this golden spice pigment in Which Spices Fight Inflammation? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-spices-fight-inflammation) and Spicing Up DNA Protection (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/spicing-up-dna-protection) and then moved on to treating actual clinical conditions in Turmeric Curcumin and Rheumatoid Arthritis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/turmeric-curcumin-and-rheumatoid-arthritis) and Turmeric Curcumin and Osteoarthritis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/turmeric-curcumin-and-osteoarthritis).  I end this video series with some cautionary notes in Who Shouldn't Consume Curcumin or Turmeric (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-shouldnt-consume-curcumin-or-turmeric).

The painkilling properties of aspirin mentioned in the video are actually found throughout the plant kingdom: Aspirin Levels in Plant Foods (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspirin-levels-in-plant-foods/).

Image Credit: Marxfoods.com and Steven Jackson photography via flickr, and Choij and Jonathunder via Wikimedia.

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