Turmeric — Garden Guardians    

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  • A guardian against cancer, disrupting cancer stem cells

    • Arpan De, PhD, Dilshan H. Beligala, PhD, Tyler M. Birkholz, MS, and Michael E. Geusz, PhD, "Anticancer properties of curcumin and interactions with the circadian timing system" Integrative Cancer Therapies, 2019.
    Yodkeeree S, Chaiwangyen W, Garbisa S, Limtrakul P., "Curcumin, demethoxycurcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin differentially inhibit cancer cell invasion through the down-regulation of MMPs and uPA," Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 2009;20:87-95

  • A component in healing established cancers: colorectal, pancreatic, breast, prostate, multiple myloma, lung, and thoracis.

    Subash C. Gupta, Sridevi Patchva, and Bharat B. Aggarwal, "Therapeutic Roles of Curcumin: Lessons Learned from Clinical Trials," AAPLS Journal, 2013; 1:195-218.

  • A general anti-inflammatory

    Aggarwal B.B., Harikumar K.B. Potential, "Therapeutic effects of curcumin, the anti-inflammatory agent, against neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, autoimmune and neoplastic diseases." International Journal of Biochemical Cell Biology, 2009, 41:40-59

  • A guardian of kidney health

    • Trujillo J., Chirino Y.I., Molina-Jijón E., Andérica-Romero A.C., Tapia E., Pedraza-Chaverrí J., "Renoprotective effect of the antioxidant curcumin: Recent findings," Redox Biology, 2013; 1:448-456.

  • A guardian of eye health

    • Allegri P., Mastromarino A., Neri P., "Management of chronic anterior uveitis relapses: Efficacy of oral phospholipidic curcumin treatment. Long-term follow-up," Clinical Ophthalmology 2010; 4:1201-1206.
    Mazzolani F., Togni S. "Oral administration of a curcumin-phospholipid delivery system for the treatment of central serous chorioretinopathy: A 12-month follow-up study," Clinical Ophthalmology 2013;7:939-945.