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Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Aug 17 8:33am | Replies (8)

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I should have been a bit more specific in my answer about the powdered turmeric / sunflower lecithin mix:
Although turmeric is water soluble it has limited bio-availability. The powder is made from the whole turmeric root so it should have much the same curcuminoids as any other form. The lecithin is a form of fat, but has many positive (good) components. One of those is that it is able to carry, or be borne by, both water-soluble and lipid-soluble material. This means easy accessibility or availability and, as a result, sharply increases turmeric's bioavailability. I use sunflower because it comes as a powder and I use Turmeric in powder form for the same reason. Soy lecithin, apart from the soy issue for some people, generally comes in granule form which is not as good as a powder. I believe a company out of some Oxford University researchers has patented the same process I have used for years.

Even so, there can be no certainty that this mix is the cause or sole cause of my having been able to sharply reduce my free kappa light chain count from 379 down to a still high between 242 to 307. ("normal" maximum is 19). It simply happens to be something I believe in.
How I take the powdered mix is another question and as mentioned previously I take it in a breakfast smoothie most days of each week. A smoothie needs a liquid component and for this, I use yoghurt which has a base of lactobacillus acidophilus. I use 250ml of this yoghurt. The acidophilus could easily be a major contributing factor as could the other ingredients which are apple, strawberry, I use blackberry instead of the recommended raspberry, and I use bilberry instead of the recommended blueberry. They are all in equal parts The lecithin/turmeric mix is included with these,
Every one of these ingredients could be what had held my MGUS steady and me Waldernstroms and myeloma-free for 8 years.
Oncologist believes after 8 years of stability nothing much is likely to arisde from the MGUS.

Hope that helps some.

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So many unknowns. The concentration of curcuminoids in supplements can be much higher than that from powdered turmeric, and GI absorption is aided by bioavailable modifications (fat [lipids], pepperine [black pepper]). At least based on this research link, curcumin in turmeric averages about 3.14%; the range from other papers is 0.3 to 8.6% (soil composition, irrigation and such influence concentration). Also, who knows if there are other chemicals in turmeric root that are useful. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17044766/ I grind and freeze turmeric for use in cooking. Impact of heating on curcumin are mixed. Here is an abstract from https://ifst.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2621.2009.01976.x on effects of drying/heating on curcumin stability "Summary Studies were undertaken to examine the effect of heat treatment on total phenolic content (TPC), colour value (yellowishness and brightness), polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activity and curcuminoid of fresh turmeric rhizome. Fresh turmeric rhizomes were subjected to heat treatment at different temperatures (60-100 °C) for different durations (10-60 min), causing a reduction in browning which was evident from the improved yellowishness and brightness. Activity of PPO was also decreased during heat treatment and PPO was almost inactivated when heated at 80 °C for 30 min. TPC of heat-treated turmeric after drying (powder) is significantly higher than that after the fresh process. TPC values increased gradually when samples were heated from 60 to 80 °C. At 90 and 100 °C, TPC values were almost identical. Maximum brightness and yellowishness were obtained when the turmeric was heated above 80 °C. Quantitation of curcuminoids in the turmeric sample was made with high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC). There was no significant change in the concentration of curcuminoids among the heat-treated samples. But in the sun-dried samples, a significant reduction in curcuminoid concentration was observed."