when you face a health problem you're taught to go to the doctors and get medicine
medicine is going to fix it right well hopefully
but what if there's a better way did anybody mention to you that there's a spice that
outperforms a bunch of the medications that your doctor is recommending to you probably not
hey wellness warrior i'm dr zyrowski and it is no secret that pharmaceutical companies have spent
billions of dollars convincing the general public that medicine is the only way in their investments
to control health care they've also brainwashed you that the doctors that give you medicine
those are the real doctors and those silly doctors that push natural methods and vitamins and stuff
well those lunatics watch out for them they're quacks they're not real doctors they're not
selling our products they say if ever there was a spice that puts existential fear in the bottom
line of a pharmaceutical company it's turmeric turmeric is one of the most thoroughly researched
plants in existence today its medicinal properties and components have been subject to more than 12
000 peer-reviewed and published biomedical studies revealing more than 800 potential preventative
and therapeutic applications as well as 250 distinct beneficial physiological effects
let's compare it turmeric to many of the mainstream medications and we're going to start
with a very popular one and that is a cholesterol medication like lipitor for instance and if you're
over the age of 50 there's a good chance you went to the doctor and they said you need cholesterol
medication but once again maybe there's a better way a 2008 study published in the journal drugs
in r d found that curcumin from turmeric which is its active compound that really helps improve
your health in so many ways which we're primarily talking about here today compared this curcumin
compared favorably to lipitor on endothelial dysfunction the underlying pathology of the
blood vessels that drives atherosclerosis it also reduced inflammation and oxidative stress in type
2 diabetic patients and honestly that's one of the amazing things about taking natural compounds that
are found in nature not only are they helping with the particular issue that you're taking it to help
with but they have so many other benefits to your overall bodily health as well now let's talk about
corticosteroids if you've ever been in pain if you've ever had an inflammatory problem in your
body you've probably been on corticosteroids a 1999 study published in the journal of
phytotherapy research found that curcumin compared favorably to steroids in the management of a
inflammatory problem in the eye known as uveitis now curcumin was also found favorable in chronic
inflammatory cases as it would down regulate inflammatory genes okay this is very important to
know and this is why in my clinic if somebody's in chronic pain one of the main things we use
all the time is you take curcumin take a herbal mixture that is designed to lower inflammation it
works phenomenal sometimes people are on steroids corticosteroids and it doesn't work and then we
use the natural method and it does work right because it acts different on your physiology
now let's talk about prozac okay an antidepressant and don't even get me into how bad this whole
topic is i mean we basically found out over the past couple weeks that millions upon millions of
people were put on antidepressants that should have never been on them because they didn't do
anything for them so a 2011 study published in a journal found that curcumin compared favorably
to antidepressant drugs in animal models so let me say this i hear all the time that i took a
particular natural supplement and this is going to be very important for the success here that you
that you're going to have with natural medicine so people say i took a natural supplement that
didn't work well there are two reasons actually three reasons that maybe it didn't work for you
one you just didn't need it you took the wrong vitamin herb for the problem and that's okay
so you didn't need it two is the dosing wasn't right and it wasn't based on science and three
you didn't digest it or absorb it well so how does this pertain to the exact topic that we're talking
about today well turmeric you have it in your cupboard in your kitchen probably right now you
put it in your food thinking it's going to change your health and give you all the benefits we're
talking about today but there's only one problem and it's not bioavailable at all meaning that you
don't absorb it well when you put in your food in order to get the benefits that the research
tells you about you'd have to eat bowls of this spice daily okay so it's pretty much impossible
so then you think well if that doesn't work then let me get a supplement and everyone sells
curcumin supplements right so the next time you're at the grocery store you grab some and then boom
doesn't work well the reality is you've got the same problem it's not bioavailable and then the
dose is so minimal in it and they do this in order to drive down the cost per bottle making you think
that you're getting a really a better deal than you are you're just really getting ripped off
ultimately then it doesn't work research is specific when it highlights these benefits
it's a very particular dose for a particular amount of time with a particular level of
bioavailability now if you see someone go to the gym and they get in great shape you don't think
to yourself well all i have to do is go to the gym and i will too magically get in great shape no you
want to know how did that person exercise did they do cardio did they do weights how heavy weights
were they lifting how long were they doing cardio how long did they work out in general the details
in this are the difference between success and failure what i'll do is i'll put a link
in the description to a curcumin that i use clinically the dose is based on research
and is using the most bioavailable curcumin that is made today on the market let's dive
into the next thing that curcumin outperforms and that is aspirin in 1986 an in vitro and
ex vivo study published found that curcumin has anti-platelet and prostacyclin modulating effects
compared to aspirin indicating that it may have a value in patients prone to vascular thrombosis
and requiring anti-arthritis therapy think of how many people are in that position and that's
a lot right you get a little older get arthritis in your joints it's going to be beneficial how
about the anti-inflammatory effects or just you know think of all the individuals who are taking
anti-inflammatory drugs and maybe you a 2004 study published in the journal bonker gene found that
curcumin was an effective alternative to 10 different drugs in exerting anti-inflammatory in
anti-proliferative activity against tumor cells pretty amazing and then even in the world of
chemotherapy there's a drug called oxoplatin and a 2007 study published in the journal
of cancer found that curcumin compares favorably as a anti-proliferative agent now many people will
tell you that the big problem with using natural methods is that they are not backed by science
and i have two things to say about this and this is important one is that much of natural health
care science is ignored there's not money to be made in it like there is to be made in medicine
okay somebody gets cancer we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars that is billed to the
insurance company it is a enormous industry right now two the reason there is less studies
on natural methods to overcoming an illness is because who is going to fund the studies you can
trademark a drug and make billions of dollars but you can't trademark a spice that grows in the wild
okay and so this is where you run into less funding for natural methods now let's talk
about metformin a very popular diabetic drug a 2009 study published in the journal biochemistry
and biophysical research community explored how curcumin might be valuable in treating diabetes
they found that it increases glucose uptake and suppresses glucose production in the liver
interestingly they also found that curcumin could be 500 times to 100 000 times more potent than
metformin in activating ampk and its downstream target acetyl coa carboxylase now let's talk
about cancer real quick and we've mentioned this multiple times because cancer is an inflammatory
disease and one of the things that happens is that tumeric really shines in the inflammatory area
in suppressing inflammation another way in which america and the components reveal the remarkable
therapeutic properties is in the research on drug resistance and multi drug resistant cancers dozens
of studies show curcumin to be highly beneficial against cancer so what's the answer here is it
never to take a medication is it to ignore going to the doctors well the answer is making sure that
you find a doctor that is acknowledging natural health care science using herbs using vitamins
using a lifestyle approach and giving you the proper information in order to improve
your health naturally that's what's important you should never ignore your health care problem you
should never go in and ignore medication without proper advice from a doctor you need to make sure
that you're taking an intelligent approach to your health care so all this is to say that you want to
think on your own you also want to be an advocate for your own health and you want to know
that there are natural methods available in order to improve your health and do it without all the
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