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| Extraction is NOT as simple as at this picture... |
this is an interesting article on curcumin
Some questions though that could arise are these:
Why do we need to focus the discussion to ONE specific compound?
What about if it is a mixture of similar structure compounds that have a combined bio-activity?
Nature dislikes pure compounds...Food is healing or not ...not because of ONE compound but because of the relative balance of hundreds of compounds.
2. the whole approach of the authors of this paper reminds me the overrated omega-3 fatty acids and their link to Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs). Everybody thought that omega-3 are active against CVDs till this paper appeared.
Now, we know that omega-3 on their own can not reduce CVDs.
Curcumin is not overrated. But the anti-inflammatory properties of turmeric may not linked to one compound only but to a group of compounds. Having this approach in mind, it would allow us to design more carefully extraction procedures...The underlying problem here is the purity of the extraction, not the masked activity of the extract.
Ioannis Zabetakis
