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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Great Lakes
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Wisest Elder Ever
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Great Lakes
Posts: 33,508
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What happens with supplements mixed together with so many others... it is a shotgun approach and clouds issues often instead of helping.
When mixed that way, often the doses are small...too small really to get clear positive results. In that list you provided, the amounts of actual herb are quite small. For example 100mg of a blueberry extract is a very small amount. This trend to mix herbs in tiny amounts appears in many highly expensive products. People (doctors AND patients), tend to respond to milligrams as they are used to drug nomenclature. But it can be rather meaningless for some herbs.
Curcumin is very useful for inflammation, and that would be worth trying, I think. Most curcumin products remain in the GI tract but the newest ones like the LongVida product (the best) or Curcugel 500mg (next best) are absorbed and therefore reach other body sites to work. One interesting study found that curcumin (the types absorbed) reduce inflammation in blood vessels.
I'd stay away from products containing Bioperine ...which is one additive some manufacturers use to enhance absorption of poorly soluble supplements. Many curcumin products have this added. But you, take too many drugs, and Bioperine is suspected of interfering with dosing of RX medications, leading to too much being absorbed (like what happens with grapefruit juice). So it is important to read all the fine print on labels and do some Googling to see if things contain this Bioperine (black pepper extract).
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