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Bill D asked in HealthAlternative Medicine · 1 decade ago

How much Curcumin or Turmeric should I take?

I am looking at taking some curcumin pills but am not for sure how much I should take. The pills I'm looking at taking say "Turmeric Root Extract (Curcuma longa) (95% Curcuminoids = 475mg)" Each pill is 475mg. Is this a lot of Curcumin. I've heard only 2% of Turmeric is Curcumin.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    You have the right kind, Turmeric extracts are usually 95% and they are the strongest. How much you should take depends on your condition. Most Turmeric/Curcumin products recommend 2 or 3 day. I have taken as many as 12 daily for intestinal inflammation. I have a customer who took so much turmeric for an inflammed eye her hands turned yellow (temporarily, don't get alarmed). I don't know what brand you have, I would start off taking the amount recommended on the bottle, you can always increase the dosage if needed for acute situations.

    Source(s): Alternative Healthcare Practitioner
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    There are many curcumin products on the market, but Curcumin Extreme™ with BCM-95® has superior bioavailability and absorption. BCM-95 contains the natural spectrum of the tumeric rhizome and is 100% natural. Curcumin Extreme promotes liver detoxification, promotes healthy glutathione levels and normal cellular regeneration. Taking Curcumin Extreme every day can help detoxify impurities in your body that build up over time.

    Curcumin Extreme also includes 167mg of broccoli seed extract, a potent source of sulphoraphane glucosinolates.

    What is the recommended daily serving for Curcumin Extreme?

    Take 1 capsule per day with or without a meal.

  • 7 years ago

    For standardized, between 400mg and 600mg. Check Himalaya Brand turmeric. They have a product which is standardized to contain 237mg of curcumin. The bottle has 60 pills, so take 2 pills per day and each bottle will give you a months supply.

  • The tablets I have for my clients is a 102.9 mg of cumerone, that is equivalent to 3,705 mg (3.7g) curcumin. The problem with turmeric, that it is very poorly absorbed. The dosage for the tablet I have is one a day, for starters in artritis, with pain and inflammation is 3x of that till the pain goes. So you can take 6-7 tablets to get to one of what I have for the daily dose as an antioxidant.

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  • 1 decade ago

    As a yoga therapist and practioner of naturopathy i would advise you

    not to go for pills. At any Indian or Chinese store you can get freshly

    ground turmeric powder. Store it in a glass jar. Every day take a cup

    of warm water and in it put two pinches of turmeric powder, stir and

    drink it. This is the standard dose as recommended by Saint

    Asaram of Gujerat, India. This is absolutely safe and no chance of

    any overdosing or any side effect. Good luck and God bless you.

    Cheers! :o)

  • 5 years ago

    I have read that if you take turmeric with black papper, it will increase your body absorption of turmeric by 2000% . Just do a search on this topic.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    According to an Oncologist who studies food as therapy. (Dr Richard Beliveau) he says like the first guy...it's not very absorbable. Except if mixed with equla parts of olive oil and a good dose of fresh ground pepper.

    I buy curcumin in powder form at the grocery store (but chinese grocery stores sell bigger bags for cheaper) and dilute a tbsp per day into one tbsp olive oil and add a tsp of fresh ground black pepper. I addthis to a cup of vegetable juice so as to be able to drink it. Otherwise the stuff is really nasty :-)

    I take this for its anti-inflamatory properties.

    Hope this helps,

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I nevertheless take a solid few supplementations yet whilst it comprises Cumin and Turmeric I want to get my dose interior the form of an Indian chicken Madras with basmati rice. that's the comparable with tea, I used to take eco-friendly tea pills, now I drink White tea, much greater suited for you than eco-friendly tea and it tastes great.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Curcumin Extreme

  • 6 years ago

    what is the answer

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