Currently in the field of food supplements, there is a lot of talk about the many virtues of spices. Indeed, nature abounds in herbs, plants and spices with countless properties that are sometimes still unknown. This way, you can combine the useful with the pleasant, that is to say, carry out a health prevention while enjoying delicious dishes spiced up with spices or exotic condiments.

An ethnobotanist, Chris Kilham, a "medicine man" constantly on the lookout for new information, confirms that turmeric root, or turmeric saffron, from which curcumin is extracted, is a truly powerful spice for many health problems, including the prevention of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

It appears that the brains of people suffering from this disease have one or more plaques called "beta-amyloid". It is not yet clear whether these plaques are a consequence of Alzheimer's disease, or whether they are the cause, but in any case, they are directly linked to the degenerative process.

Chris Kilham explains, and backs up his claims with new studies, that turmeric does seem to inhibit the development of these plaques and seems to help reduce their appearance even in much later stages of the disease.

Animal studies have shown that when turmeric root extracts are given to animals with this type of plaque, the number and extent of plaques is reduced.

Other observations also indicate that groups of people who frequently consume turmeric in large quantities almost never develop Alzheimer's disease. Also in India or in South East Asian countries, it is a rare pathology, which is probably correlated to the fact that in these countries people consume a lot of turmeric. Whereas in industrialized countries, such as the United States, where there is little consumption of this type of spice, this disease is very widespread.

We know that pharmaceutical companies are currently hard at work developing turmeric-based medicines, but Kilham recommends eating fresh turmeric as often as possible, and taking it in supplement form, if spices are only a small part of your diet.

Knowing that an active ingredient such as turmeric root cannot be patented, it is likely that pharmaceutical laboratories will continue to seek synthetic active molecules to treat this type of disease.

Since we know that chemical or synthetic molecules are not recognized or assimilated by the body and that they also have many side effects and undesirable effects, as a natural medicine enthusiast Chris Kilham prefers to continue eating fresh turmeric or to absorb really protective food supplements in order to protect himself from such health problems.

We assume that this will be your choice as well.