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Are you having too much inflammation?

Inflammation affects everyone, regardless of age, often without you even realising it. However, when there’s excess inflammation in the body, it sends signals to alert you that something is wrong.

Common signs of inflammation include:

  • Body pain
  • Constant fatigue
  • Insomnia
  • Anxiety
  • Gastrointestinal complications
  • Weight gain
  • Frequent infections

Inflammation: good or bad?

Inflammation comes from the Latin word for “to set on fire”.  Like fire, inflammation can either serve or harm you!

It is an essential part of the body’s immune response to injuries and infective foreign substances, such as bacteria and viruses. Acute inflammation occurs as the body’s natural healing process.  This is a good inflammation your body employs to defend itself against foreign invaders that could otherwise cause harm. The symptoms typically subside once your body has healed.

On the flip side, inflammation can be bad if it persists. This condition, known as chronic inflammation, puts your body in an emergency state for a prolonged period. It can spread throughout your body and wreak havoc, potentially leading to a myriad of serious health conditions.

What triggers inflammation?

Addressing the root cause of inflammation can significantly help improve your health. The following factors can all prompt your immune response and eventually result in pro-inflammatory processes in your body.

  • Poor diet
  • Chronic stress
  • Excess weight
  • Alcohol/tobacco use
  • Environmental toxins
  • Sleep deprivation

 

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Put out the fire of inflammation with turmeric

Do not let inflammation rage inside your body and silently take a toll on your health! By making positive lifestyle and dietary changes, you can effectively reduce inflammation.

Turmeric has been used for centuries in Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine to treat a variety of ailments. It is commonly found in various joint care supplements for knee pain. More than just a culinary spice, it boasts remarkable health-promoting properties, thanks to its well-known anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Growing evidence highlights that these healing properties are attributed to turmeric’s active compounds, known as curcuminoids.

This golden spice provides a safe, natural approach, not only to calm inflammatory responses in your body, but also to address the underlying causes, while strengthening your body as a whole.

Anti-inflammatory

Curcuminoids are known to suppress inflammation by inhibiting NF-kB, a transcription factor that triggers a cascade of undesirable inflammatory responses in your body. NF-kB is believed to play a major role in a host of chronic diseases ranging from cardiovascular diseases to cancer.

Antioxidant

Curcuminoids effectively to counteract free radicals in two ways: by preventing the formation of free radicals and by neutralising preformed radicals.

Health benefits of turmeric

Joint health

Relieves pain, inflammation and stiffness related to osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Cardiovascular support

Lowers serum levels of LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides, thus reducing the risk factors for coronary heart diseases.

Diabetes management

Increases the production of insulin to regulate blood sugar levels.

Brain function

Helps improve cognitive functions and maintain memory in Alzheimer’s patients.

Gastrointestinal health

Improves symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, gas, and constipation.

Respiratory health

Alleviates symptoms of allergic rhinitis (hay fever) including sneezing, itching and nasal congestion, and relieves airway obstruction linked to asthma.

Liver health

Reduces hepatic fibrosis linked to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Cancer prevention

Inhibits initiation, progression and metastasis of a variety of tumours.

Chemo-preventive effects

Protects normal tissues from chemotherapy-induced toxicity and enhances the therapeutic efficacy of anti-cancer drugs.

Supplementing with Curcumin C3 Complex® + BioPerine®

Curcumin C3 Complex®

  • The foremost clinically-studied natural anti-inflammatory and antioxidant with numerous health benefits
  • The gold standard for turmeric extracts
  • Standardised to a minimum 95% total curcuminoids
  • An effective “bioprotectant” comprising all 3 major curcuminoids: curcumin, demethoxycurcumin (DMC) and bisdemethoxycurcumin (BDMC)
  • In naturally-occurring free form, which confers greater bio-efficacy compared to its conjugates
  • Self-affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognised As Safe)

 

Why do you need all 3 curcuminoids?

  • DMC and BDMC stabilise curcumin
  • DMC and BDMC are more efficient to protect from oxidative stress than curcumin alone
  • Curcumin C3 Complex® is more soluble due to the presence of BDMC, making it more absorbable in the gastrointestinal tract

BioPerine®

  • A standardised extract of black pepper containing not less than 95% piperine
  • Significantly enhances the bioavailability of curcumin through increased absorption
  • With BioPerine®, curcumin able to reach, enter and remain within their target cells for longer periods of time for optimal health support
  • Self-affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognised As Safe)

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