What youve done is ignored the studies that do support Tumeric as a powerful anti inflammatory. Ive been to the pcp and the specialist, done all the test including MRIs and Scans and so on and was diagnosed as so.
The back and neck pain was always managable for me, even with carring 100lbs of gear and working my body to exhaustion.
The two day long migraines were however debilitating. They are always accompanied with the stiffening of my neck, which is why the nuero believes the disc problem to be my trigger.
I understand that your referencing studies and have a wealth of education and knowledge to support your point. But those studies have had zero impact on helping me. What helped me was doing my own research and my willingness to look outside the box while condescending doctors treated me as if I was incapable of making any intelligent decisions on my own behalf. I tried the traditional route first and it was neither helpful nor healthy. I may be the only person in the entire world that is the case with but I will take my personal experience over your studies. At some point you have to put down the studies and treat the patient.
I have no problem with you doing whatever you want to your body.
I simply caution anyone who would blindly follow unsubstantiated recommendations.
To your point about the possible advantages of turmeric (active ingredient is curcumin), here are some results of studies done at the Linus Pauling institute, Oregon State university:
Metabolism and Bioavailability
Clinical trials in humans indicate that the systemic
bioavailability of orally administered curcumin is relatively low
(3-5) and that mostly
metabolites of curcumin, instead of curcumin itself, are detected in
plasma or
serum following oral consumption
(6, 7). In the intestine and liver, curcumin is readily
conjugated to form curcumin glucuronide and curcumin sulfate or, alternately, reduced to tetrahydrocurcumin, hexahydrocurcumin, and octahydrocurcumin (
Figure 2)
(4). An early clinical trial conducted in Taiwan indicated that serum curcumin concentrations peaked at 0.41 to 1.75 micromoles/liter (μM) one hour after oral doses of 4 to 8 g of curcumin
(8). Another clinical trial conducted in the UK found that plasma concentrations of curcumin, curcumin sulfate, and curcumin glucuronide were in the range of 0.01 μM one hour after a 3.6 g oral dose of curcumin
(9). Curcumin and its metabolites could not be detected in plasma at doses lower than 3.6 g/day. There is some evidence that orally administered curcumin accumulates in
gastrointestinal tissues. For instance, when
colorectal cancer patients took 3.6 g/day of curcumin orally for seven days prior to surgery, curcumin was detected in both
malignantand normal colorectal tissue
(10). In contrast, curcumin was not detected in the liver tissue of patients with liver
metastases of colorectal cancer after the same oral dose of curcumin
(11), suggesting that oral curcumin administration may not effectively deliver curcumin to tissues outside the gastrointestinal tract.
What one can derive from this evaluation is that the substance would essentially need to be taken hourly to maintain any significant plasma level, and that it's delivery and minor accumulation is limited almost entirely to the digestive tract. This problem has shown in human clinical trials, with positive results no better than placebo.
Again, you should want science on that wall;
you need science on that wall. We are not your enemy.
