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Turmeric benefits for retinopathy?

Helen40

Helen40

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Type 1
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My consultant has advised to take a daily dose of turmeric as a healthy antioxidant, I do lots of my own research and it certainly sounds beneficial! Just wondering if anyone else has tried this?
 
I take turmeric along with high strength vitamin d. I didn't know it was supposed to be good for retinopathy but my eyes have been stable for the last 5 years after a tiny bit of laser.
 
I try to include Turmeric most days. A quarter teaspoon of the regular stuff you can pick up from the supermarket is fine. Way cheaper than supplement pills (and the whole spice is probably more effective than the extracts in supplements).

Turmeric has also been shown to have benefits against cancer, arthritis and inflammation.

Easy way to include it is to stir it into a cup of tea. With milk as the active ingredients are fat soluble... But if you go a step further and make a chai tea you can include some black pepper which helps you absorb the Turmeric better.

Turmeric Benefits: The Latest Research | NutritionFacts.org

In recent years, more than five thousand articles have been published in the medical literature about curcumin, the pigment in turmeric.
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I took Tumeric for several years for my arthritis, I wasn’t that convinced it helped me, but I did bruise very easily. I read it should be stopped before any surgery, so I did just that before an operation on my foot. My arthritis didn’t get any worse so I just stayed off it!
 
We eat quite a bit of turmeric in this household, because we like it. My OH also supplements; in his case for his joints.

I have no idea if it is performing miracles, but he's 76 and still playing golf a minimum of 3 times a week, and using the gym the other days. He takes this one:


I know some folks enjoy turmeric milk, but whilst I love turmeric, I didn't like that, so maybe worth experimenting.
 
I quite like orange and turmeric tea, no idea how much turmeric it has in it. My husband cooks with it quite a lot... I guess a question with all supplements is whether they are damaging if taken in excess and how much is that excess?
 
EllieM said:
I quite like orange and turmeric tea, no idea how much turmeric it has in it. My husband cooks with it quite a lot... I guess a question with all supplements is whether they are damaging if taken in excess and how much is that excess?
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Worth remembering for sure
 
Guilty said:
I try to include Turmeric most days. A quarter teaspoon of the regular stuff you can pick up from the supermarket is fine. Way cheaper than supplement pills (and the whole spice is probably more effective than the extracts in supplements).

Turmeric has also been shown to have benefits against cancer, arthritis and inflammation.

Easy way to include it is to stir it into a cup of tea. With milk as the active ingredients are fat soluble... But if you go a step further and make a chai tea you can include some black pepper which helps you absorb the Turmeric better.

Turmeric Benefits: The Latest Research | NutritionFacts.org

In recent years, more than five thousand articles have been published in the medical literature about curcumin, the pigment in turmeric.
nutritionfacts.org nutritionfacts.org
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Sounds great, will try that
 
eventhorizon said:
I take turmeric along with high strength vitamin d. I didn't know it was supposed to be good for retinopathy but my eyes have been stable for the last 5 years after a tiny bit of laser.
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Apparently it has been shown to have a significant effect on reducing VEGF, worth a try?!
 
What's VEGF please?

I cook with turmeric a lot. I've no firm evidence that it does any good, but I like it and it certainly doesn't appear to do any harm.
 
@Helen40 Make of what I’m going to tell you what you will, I’m not saying that this will work but wanted to share my sister in law experience who I was chatting with today.

She’s not diabetic but for the last few years has been having treatment for similar to yourself, she’s had lots of procedures and was at the clinic a few weeks ago both her and her consultant prepared for more treatment. She said consultant was totally shocked when he examined her to find not only did she not need treatment but there had been an improvement, he couldn’t understand it and asked her if she was doing anything different.

Apparently she’s been taking collagen for her all round health such as hair, nails & skin, when she mentioned this he said he couldn’t say if it was that or not as there is no evidence of this but if that’s not to say it hasn’t helped. He said there was no harm in taking collagen and to continue if she’s happy on it reiterating that he couldn’t say either way if it helps but it’s definitely not going to do any harm
 
lovinglife said:
@Helen40 Make of what I’m going to tell you what you will, I’m not saying that this will work but wanted to share my sister in law experience who I was chatting with today.

She’s not diabetic but for the last few years has been having treatment for similar to yourself, she’s had lots of procedures and was at the clinic a few weeks ago both her and her consultant prepared for more treatment. She said consultant was totally shocked when he examined her to find not only did she not need treatment but there had been an improvement, he couldn’t understand it and asked her if she was doing anything different.

Apparently she’s been taking collagen for her all round health such as hair, nails & skin, when she mentioned this he said he couldn’t say if it was that or not as there is no evidence of this but if that’s not to say it hasn’t helped. He said there was no harm in taking collagen and to continue if she’s happy on it reiterating that he couldn’t say either way if it helps but it’s definitely not going to do any harm
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Thankyou fir sharing! As you say it can't hurt and collagen is a good thing to have in any event, thank you x
 
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