Curry may fight dementia

Professor Doraiswamy said a clinical trial was now underway at the University of California, Los Angeles, to test curcumin's effects in Alzheimer's patients.

Nice to see my lab get a little pub. :up:

If this proves to be effective in humans, hopefully their next step would be to concentrate the curcumin in a pill form. :)

However, Rebecca Wood, of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, stressed that people would need to eat a lot of curry - over 100g of turmeric curry powder - to get a clinical dose of curcumin.

She said: "Professor Doraiswamy's unpublished research applies only to animal models; his hypothesis has not been confirmed in human clinical trials.

"We look forward to the results of the human curcumin trial at UCLA."

"Celtkin wrote:

If this proves to be effective in humans, hopefully their next step would be to concentrate the curcumin in a pill form. :)

Well, not to be a pessimist, though I believe it'll likely have to take the form of injections rather than pills. The delivery mechanism isn't quite as efficient as you'd hope. I know in testing blood samples with curcumin, it does require a pretty heavy dose.

"Regan21286 wrote:

Nice to see my lab get a little pub. :up:

hopefully it gets some air freshener too

"adamprez2003 wrote:

hopefully it gets some air freshener too

lol, it's so freaking cold at my station that any odor will likely appear in solid form. :lol:

mmm...need to eat more curry. Wonder if it reverses the effects of people who are already demented?

Actually, alzheimers has occurred in my family, so I need to be careful.