[lurkingforacure]

If you have not read Olsen's post about the Salk Institute and its discovery of a compound based off of curcumin, you should....and check out their website discussing this, be sure to watch the short video on it (less than 2 minutes, you will be glad you did):

https://www.salk.edu/news/pressrelea...p?press_id=616

What is awesome is that this group bucked the traditional model of giving the compound BEFORE the disease, as every experiment typically does. No one with PD takes PD drugs before they get dx'd, it seems incredible to me that every PD drug trial uses an animal model where the drug is given first, and before PD is inflicted upon the subject animal. That is not what happens in real life!

Even better, they gave the compound to animals that had the equivalent of advanced Alz., not early stage disease, another trend bucker. And the drug still improved things!

Finally, this group worked on finding a compound that worked in multiple ways, instead of the traditional one-punch effect of most drugs available today (block this, add that)...this drug seems to work synergistically in the brain in multiple ways that allows healing, and thus improvement. Awesome

[GerryW]

Thanks for the link. The videos on aging were especially interesting. I have long believed that not enough attention was paid to cellular aging as a precondition to late onset PD. One video confirms that brain plaque is not a cause of AD but the body's attempt to contain the damage that the proteins from aging brain cells inflict on the brain. AD is more common than PD but appear similar in genesis. The questions are why doesn't everyone get it as their brains age? Why sometimes PD, AD, ALS, etc? What changes to brain cells have to happen before the onset of PD?

I wonder how their curcumin derivative compares to highly bioavailable curcumin like Longvida?

[lurkingforacure]

Originally Posted by GerryW

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I wonder how their curcumin derivative compares to highly bioavailable curcumin like Longvida?

The video and article indicate their compound is far more potent, we all know curcumin has lousy bioavailability, I am sure they addressed that and then some. I would imagine the anti-inflammatory aspects of curcumin are at play, but then, we don't know what all curcumin really does, so there could be other mechanisms at work. Whatever they are, they seem to improve things.

[ol'cs]

Originally Posted by lurkingforacure

The video and article indicate their compound is far more potent, we all know curcumin has lousy bioavailability, I am sure they addressed that and then some. I would imagine the anti-inflammatory aspects of curcumin are at play, but then, we don't know what all curcumin really does, so there could be other mechanisms at work. Whatever they are, they seem to improve things.

I don"t want an "improvement" in my condition. I want a cure!