[soccertese]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfee...e1-524175.aspx

[Conductor71]

Originally Posted by soccertese

http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfee...e1-524175.aspx

Thank your for sharing this news. I don't think this is all hype. We have members of the forum here who swear by Curcumin and have been able to reduce meds...that tells me that something is working to stop the cellular destruction. See the posts by Ron Hutton for more info.

The novel aspect to their research is not that the curcumin helps control the cellular loss but in its method of delivery. Usually one has to take a very high dose with bioperine to help it cross the blood-brain barrier. These researcher sound like they are using amino acids to help transport the curcumin so more is available. I'm not sure how curative it is...I'm thinking it may be the findings of a company that wants to patent a supplement by establishing it as effective or beneficial treament for PD.

Sounds promising...

Laura

[Ronhutton]

Hi Soccertise,
Yes, Laura is quite right, there is a huge amount of information now on the beneficial effects of curcumin against PD. There are research groups all over the world now who have published positive data on it. Not only that, but it is very safe. It has passed 6 human trials. It is consumed in high quantities in India, where the incidence of PD is 14 per 100,000 population, compared to 280 per 100,000 in USA/UK.
It has a number of useful properties, the most important are it is a powerful antioxidant, it chelates heavy mtals , and it reduces the permeability of the blood-brain barrier. The only drawback is it has poor bioavailability. This is improved as Laura has pointed out by adding piperine (trade name bioperine) which comes from black pepper. Most curcumin supplements now come with piperine added. It looks as though the group you have found have improved bioavailability by a "trojan horse" technique, by attaching amimo acids to it.
There are a number of supplement suppliers who have used various techniques to produce an improved bioavailabilty, such as the one I mentioned in my post at
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread117414.html
As Laura says, you wil find a lot of information on curcumin if you do a search on Neurotalk.
Ron

[soccertese]

ron, my point was the article was devoid of any specific experimental details and/or how they saw a statistically superior affect from their drug.
i'm not arguing against the previous curcurmin research.

and yes, i think that article was hype.

[girija]

Hi all,
Here is my two cents worth......
I dont think it is all hype aand I am pretty sure their experiments did show something positive at least in mice. On the other hand, with out any scientific details or data, it is hard to believe them. I am also skeptical about the "Cure' part. Hoping to find details, I checked IIIT web site, but Dr. Misra's page is empty.......
I will try to get more info on this, anything positive would be useful
Girija