General questions
You can consume Haldivita in a cup of milk or any other milk product. I find the taste good in hot water as well and normally consume it that way. Some people add Haldivita in upma, poha and pulao as a seasoning. Recently we baked Haldivita cookies and we were surprised, they turned out to be delicious. 🤣
Yes ! This is ideal for mothers seeking to nourish their children and support them to excel in all that they do, Haldivita caters perfectly to the energy requirements of any active lifestyle by providing its golden, energising `first cup of the day?
The ingredients are Suvarna Turmeric, flaxseed, sunflower seed, almond, pista, cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, black pepper etc. All ingredients are natural and we do not use any preservatives, flavours or chemicals.
It is high on curcumin and has all benefits curcumin provides. It also has omega 3. Turmeric with high curcumin level acts as an antiviral, antifungal, anti inflammatory, antioxidant and is a very effective immunity booster. It is also known to kill certain cancer cells.
Suvarna Turmeric is one of many species of turmeric which has highest curcumin content. Suvarna is sensitive to climate that is why it grows well in the higher regions of Uttarakhand. We grow turmeric along with farmers of Uttarakhand and the crop cycle is 18 months which makes Suvarna Turmeric a powerful medicine and also expensive, unlike regular kitchen turmeric which grows in 3-4 months.
The moment we take a compound or molecule out of the product, the natural stability is affected. Say, we remove a compound or molecule from a chemical, the remainder becomes unstable and has a very different impact. Haldi or turmeric as a whole has an internal molecular structure too and extracting a part of it would definitely render some reduction on its impact.
If compounds is all what we needed for the body then a contrarian evidence stating the need of black pepper and bio soluble fat should never arise
Ayurveda believes that it is always a mix, a rasayan made of multiple kinds of natural herbs is what prevents internal aging. The premise is the interaction of these herbs in their natural for to be ingested by a natural body, and not unnatural form of compound consumed by natural body.
If compounds and molecules as stand alone could help preventing or help in cure, then few compound tablets a day would eliminate the need of food, which is obviously not the case
Other questions
Inflammation is incredibly important.
It helps your body fight foreign invaders and also has a role in repairing damage.
Without inflammation, pathogens like bacteria could easily take over your body and kill you.
Although acute, short-term inflammation is beneficial, it can become a major problem when it becomes chronic and inappropriately attacks your body’s own tissues.
Scientists now believe that chronic, low-level inflammation plays a major role in almost every chronic, Western disease. This includes heart disease, cancer, metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer’s and various degenerative conditions (4, 5, 6).
Therefore, anything that can help fight chronic inflammation is of potential importance in preventing and even treating these diseases.
Curcumin is strongly anti-inflammatory. In fact, it’s so powerful that it matches the effectiveness of some anti-inflammatory drugs, without the side effects (7, 8, 9).
It blocks NF-kB, a molecule that travels into the nuclei of your cells and turns on genes related to inflammation. NF-kB is believed to play a major role in many chronic diseases (10, 11).
Without getting into the details (inflammation is extremely complicated), the key takeaway is that curcumin is a bioactive substance that fights inflammation at the molecular level (12, 13, 14).
Oxidative damage is believed to be one of the mechanisms behind aging and many diseases.
It involves free radicals, highly reactive molecules with unpaired electrons.
Free radicals tend to react with important organic substances, such as fatty acids, proteins or DNA.
The main reason antioxidants are so beneficial is that they protect your body from free radicals.
Curcumin is a potent antioxidant that can neutralize free radicals due to its chemical structure (15, 16).
In addition, curcumin boosts the activity of your body’s own antioxidant enzymes (17, 18, 19).
In that way, curcumin delivers a one-two punch against free radicals. It blocks them directly, then stimulates your body’s own antioxidant defenses.
Back in the day, it was believed that neurons weren’t able to divide and multiply after early childhood.
However, it’s now known that this does happen.
Neurons are capable of forming new connections, but in certain areas of the brain they can also multiply and increase in number.
One of the main drivers of this process is brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which is a type of growth hormone that functions in your brain (20).
Many common brain disorders have been linked to decreased levels of this hormone, including depression and Alzheimer’s disease (21, 22).
Interestingly, curcumin can increase brain levels of BDNF (23, 24).
By doing this, it may be effective in delaying or even reversing many brain diseases and age-related decreases in brain function (25).
It may also improve memory and make you smarter, which seems logical given its effects on BDNF levels. However, controlled studies in people are needed to confirm this (26).
Heart disease is the number 1 cause of death in the world (27).
Researchers have studied it for many decades and learned a lot about why it happens.
Unsurprisingly, heart disease is incredibly complicated and various things contribute to it.
Curcumin may help reverse many steps in the heart disease process (28).
Perhaps the main benefit of curcumin when it comes to heart disease is improving the function of the endothelium, which is the lining of your blood vessels.
It’s well known that endothelial dysfunction is a major driver of heart disease and involves an inability of your endothelium to regulate blood pressure, blood clotting and various other factors (29).
Several studies suggest that curcumin leads to improvements in endothelial function. One study found that it’s as effective as exercise while another shows that it works as well as the drug Atorvastatin (30, 31).
In addition, curcumin reduces inflammation and oxidation (as discussed above), which play a role in heart disease as well.
One study randomly assigned 121 people, who were undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery, either a placebo or 4 grams of curcumin per day, a few days before and after the surgery.
The curcumin group had a 65% decreased risk of experiencing a heart attack in the hospital (32).
Cancer is a terrible disease, characterized by uncontrolled cell growth.
There are many different forms of cancer, which still have several things in common. Some of them appear to be affected by curcumin supplements (33).
Curcumin has been studied as a beneficial herb in cancer treatment and been found to affect cancer growth, development and spread at the molecular level (34).
Studies have shown that it can contribute to the death of cancerous cells and reduce angiogenesis (growth of new blood vessels in tumors) and metastasis (spread of cancer) (35).
Multiple studies indicate that curcumin can reduce the growth of cancerous cells in the laboratory and inhibit the growth of tumors in test animals (36, 37).
Whether high-dose curcumin (preferably with an absorption enhancer like piperine) can help treat cancer in humans has yet to be studied properly.
However, there is evidence that it may prevent cancer from occurring in the first place, especially cancers of the digestive system like colorectal cancer.
In a 30-day study in 44 men with lesions in the colon that sometimes turn cancerous, 4 grams of curcumin per day reduced the number of lesions by 40% (38).
Maybe curcumin will be used along with conventional cancer treatment one day. It’s too early to say for sure, but it looks promising and is being intensively studied.
Arthritis is a common problem. There are several different types, most of which involve inflammation in the joints.
Given that curcumin is a potent anti-inflammatory compound, it makes sense that it may help with arthritis.
Several studies show this to be true.
In a study in people with rheumatoid arthritis, curcumin was even more effective than an anti-inflammatory drug (42).
Many other studies have looked at the effects of curcumin on arthritis and noted improvements in various symptoms (43, 44).
Curcumin has shown some promise in treating depression.
In a controlled trial, 60 people with depression were randomized into three groups (45).
One group took Prozac, another group one gram of curcumin and the third group both Prozac and curcumin.
After 6 weeks, curcumin had led to improvements that were similar to Prozac. The group that took both Prozac and curcumin fared best (45).
According to this small study, curcumin is as effective as an antidepressant.
Depression is also linked to reduced levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and a shrinking hippocampus, a brain area with a role in learning and memory.
Curcumin boosts BDNF levels, potentially reversing some of these changes (46).
There is also some evidence that curcumin can boost the brain neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine (47, 48).