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Have used curcumin for lingering chronic pain for a number of months now.I recently had a GImap to check my gut biome and gut lining. Although it was mostly good from being keto (no grains/no sugars) for 3+ years, I still had previous damage and inflammation. I recently realized the culprit was my use of Celebrex 3x a month and occasional use of Aleve. Although it wasn't a regular use, it was enough to continually eat away at my lining. --- So, it is like this never ending cycle ... have inflammation and pain, take the NSAID, pain is gone, but open the spacing in your gut, thus causing a pathway to create inflammation and pain. For me ... I needed to stop the cycle and heal my gut. You hear this "catch phrase" all the time. Leaky gut. I dismissed it for years and now I get it.I kicked off NSAIDs recently. After research I started taking high doses of this product. I used to take small doses for pain and it just didn't work. Well this time, on a bad pain day, I took 3 at first and waited. I also took a hot shower and used heat packs. A bit later, I took 3 more. The pain started to ease. I continued taking one now and then until the pain was gone and within a few hours I was up and running as per normal. By evening, tension pain started to creep back and I took 3 more. Pain gone.The next day, there was residual achiness pain and I took more product. Somehow I muscled through and 2 days later the pain pocket was just gone and I felt like myself. I was pretty proud of myself for tackling a large pocket of pain with natural means. Many people say you have to use it daily for it to build up and work. I take enough dailies and use it as needed and it works for me fine.My suggestion thus is, DIET FIRST. I about eliminated my chronic pain & migraines by going keto. Not your typical weight loss keto, but a clean therapeutic keto. Take out those inflammatory grains, legumes, plus refined sugars and such. Take them out for good. Within a month, I felt GREAT. So much so, I never wanted my old life back and we stuck with it.But now and then, because I have a mast cell disorder, a neck injury, and previous joint damage, the pain could creep back in. By looking at my gut biome, I saw there was room for improvement in my health. I believe this product has helped me as a natural anti-inflammatory product. It helped me clean up the last bit in my life where my health needed tweaking. I plan to keep using it. (and also trying a product by Biotics called Kapparest).I hope this helps someone. Chronic pain is no fun. In today's day and age ,and on the standard american diet, a lot of us are bringing it upon ourselves. We can overcome! You can do it! Read more

I'm not sure why the product description and label try and keep it a secret, but I did some research and found out that this product uses Turmipure Gold as the curcumin formulation. Turmipure's bioavailability has been studied, and "300mg Turmipure (containing 90mg curcuminoids) was shown to deliver as many curcuminoids to the blood as 1,920mg of standard turmeric extract".So this product increases blood plasma curcumin levels roughly 2000% over standard curcumin. That's an impressive increase, but for comparison some other popular curcumin formulations have demonstrated even better bioavailability. Longvida increases blood plasma curcumin levels 6500%, and Meriva by 2900%. That is not to discredit this product. I like that it is a new, highly bioavailable curcumin formulation, but it lacks the clinical trials supporting it's benefits that a lot of the other patented products have. So even if this has proven bioavailability - it doesn't have the same proven efficacy that some other curcumin formulations have.I do like that this curcumin extract is organic. None of the other patented formulations I've used before are organic, so it does have that going for it. But when you are ingesting such a tiny amount as 300mg of curcumin extract a day, it really doesn't matter if it is organic or not because realistically there could be no meaningful amount of pesticide residue in such a small quantity of plant material. Read more

This is a high quality supplement as expected from this brand. The vivid yellow tablets are small and easy to take. As others have mentioned, there are only 30 tablets and the glass bottle is large and heavy. Of course, I will be repurposing the bottle, so it isn't a waste for me, as I am happy to have it for other things. I am new to taking curcumin, so I don't have any of the more typical capsules containing black pepper or BioPerine (patented form of piperine extracted from black pepper) to compare with. I also haven't been taking this long enough to comment on any potential results, which will take time. I haven't experienced any ill effects since I started taking this supplement. My understanding is that piperine facilitates the aborption of curcumin and has many purported benefits of its own. But it can also be irritating to the GI tract and may interfere with liver function. So I was interested in learning more about this patented turmeric with water rather than lipid dispersal + the micronization. I didn't find a lot of information about this other than the basics, however -- the curcumin and two other curcuminoids are emulsified and released slowly but I'm not sure which process was used to micronize the pigments. I do think the regular price of $37.49 is way too pricey, although it is currently reduced to $29.37 -- which is still too high for me, since the bottle represents a 30-day supply. The price is the only reasons I gave this product 4 stars instead of 5. The bottle arrived boxed and properly sealed. Read more