Quite often your best health choices are from your own back garden, what nature intended.  One of these fabulous spices is now getting its rightful recognition and has an array of health benefits, this spice is turmeric.  This natural healer has no side effects, unlike the drug-based medical ones, and has several hundred-side benefits.  Some herbs are not right for everyone and can have individual side effects however turmeric seems to be one of those herbs/spices that has an exceptionally high margin of safety when compared to other drugs, e.g. hydrocortisone, ibuprofen, chemotherapy agents.  Ayurvedic medicine has been using turmeric safely for 6,000 years.

There are over 580 potential health benefits of turmeric on the National Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database known as “Medline”, curcumin is the primary polyphenol in turmeric and is responsible for its health benefits.

Some of these health benefits include:

• Destroying Multi-drug resistant cancer
• Destroying cancer stem cells (the root of all cancer)
• Protect against radiation-induced damage
• Reducing unhealthy levels of inflammation
• Protecting against heavy metal toxicity
• Preventing and reversing Alzheimer’s disease associated pathologies
• Helps colitis
• Reduces symptoms of osteoarthritis
• Helps control allergic responses
• Helps modulate stress expression
• Has antifungal activity against Candida

Turmeric not only has value in many conditions that are resistant to conventional medicine but that there are 580 health conditions it benefits and that it grows freely on earth without side effects that conventional drugs give you.

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