NOW Foods Supplements, Turmeric Curcumin, Derived from Turmeric Root Extract, Herbal Supplement, 120 Veg Capsules

You can't go wrong with NOW supplements. They are quality products and the prices are fair. I use the Turmeric Circumin as part of my daily regimen. There is not bad taste and it's anti-inflammatory properties have seemed to help me with some injuries. I used to take a 1/2 teaspoon or turmeric powder in water but the taste is not good! This is much easier

I love this brand of Turmeric Curcumin. I have it on a subscription and it helps reduce my inflammation. I take 2 per day and it seems to work well for inflammation in my body. Easy to swallow and clean ingredients.

Excellent product really good to reduce inflammation. I give this product the highest rating.

This stuff works. I was really skeptical about its anti-inflammatory properties at first, but I thought I would give it a try. I take 200 mg of Celecoxib everyday with Tramadol to control ankle pain (previous talar fracture). However, this pain med combo doesn't do anything for my tennis elbow (moderate to severe). Before using curcumin, I used the old RICE protocol with more emphasis on the rest and ice component. I used ice for several weeks with very little if any long term help. It would calm an angry elbow, but later it would come right back. I thought that I would give this whole curcumin (I was thinking it was snake oil) stuff a go, because I have tried everything else (Nitro patches, NSAIDS, kenalog injections, ice, rest) nothing seemed to be working for me. First couple of days I noticed a remarkable difference in my elbow discomfort, but I dismissed this as just a transient comfort associated with not exacerbating the tendinitis. During the time I was taking the pills I experienced a significantly reduced pain in the elbow, not completely gone, but acceptable. I thought that my tendinitis had run its course and I was back to my old self. WRONG!!! When I ran out of the pills, within several days my elbow started up again. UhhhhhhhhH!!!! So back to Amazon I went to get some more. This time I went with Jarrow's Formula to see if there was a difference (other than price). Since then my elbow is lovin' this stuff. So yea, I agree with the other users that this stuff is actually efficacious. One thing that I did do, and I did some extensive research on this, was that you MUST take this product with piperine (Bioprerine), or curcumin may not work. This was suggested on many of the sites that I viewed before my decision and purchase. It enhances the bio availability of the product by 2000% according to the many who researched curcumin. I am not the type of consumer to just buy the cheapest stuff out there, I care about quality. I am a firm believer that anything that NOW Foods kicks out their door is of substantial quality. Source Naturals seems to be another company, Jarrow's Formula two thumbs up, Optimum Nutrition is a top contender. When I need something fast and don't wanna spend time researching the company to ensure of quality products, the above mentioned companies are always top of my list. From what I have read, supplements are unregulated by the FDA, and these companies can put whatever they want in them. So it is up to us to keep warn and inform others about the products and companies.

I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, so I am using this particular kind of curcumin because it contains no bioprene. Hashimoto's is an autoimmune disease which causes inflammation and attacks your thyroid and kills it, which causes hypothyroidism. Bioprene is black pepper extract, and black pepper is a nightshade—all nightshades should be avoided for people with autoimmune disease. If you want to increase absorption just take the pill with any kind of fat such as an avocado, coconut oil, etc. Just thought I'd mention that since 95% of hypothyroid patients have Hashimoto's and many don't know it because doctors won't bother to test for it. If you are hypothyroid, you probably have Hashimoto's. If you just learned something in that last paragraph, then I have more advice for your all-over aches and pains. That's inflammation caused by the disease. You're not just "getting older," you're not supposed to hurt everywhere. Once you have one autoimmune diseases, such as Hashimoto's, it can lead to more autoimmune diseases if you don't regulate your diet and get the inflammation under control. Fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid Arthritis are two autoimmune diseases which cause pain in your muscles and joints due to inflammation. Turmeric / Curcumin is not only great at controlling inflammation, but it also chelates excess iron stored in the body as ferritin. Sometimes, people with Hashimoto's have infections (which leads to excess ferritin stores) and this may actually be the root cause of their Hashimoto's. If you have high ferritin, this may suggest you have an infection somewhere that needs to be addressed. I did have an infection on a root canal and my blood tests revealed my ferritin was pretty high at 190-something. I had the root canal tooth pulled a few months ago and now I am taking this Curcumin to help chelate the excess ferritin out of my body and also help get my inflammation under control, since I have not been strictly on the AIP diet for several months (more about that later). High ferritin can cause hair loss, lower back pain, fatigue, etc. Google the symptoms of high ferritin if you are interested. Many of these symptoms are the same as Hashimoto's symptoms, in general, because Hashimoto's causes inflammation which leads to pain all over the body, fatigue, etc. If you have an autoimmune diseasee, you can help yourself a lot by going on the AIP diet (autoimmune protocol) for free. Basically, this means you have to give up alcohol, coffee, grains, beans, nuts, diary, nightshades and flowering spices as well as many supplements you might think are "helping" you but which are actually making you worse. For example, I was taking ashwaganda for stress, but as soon as I stopped taking it, it became obvious that it had only caused me more stress. In fact, when I began taking it, I only had mild stress, but by the time I had to see a doctor for anxiety, it was several years later and my anxiety was through the roof. I had been taking ashwaganda faithfully every day to "help" combat the stress not realizing it is actually a nightshade and only caused my immune system to attack my thyroid more, which caused my thyroid to dump hormones into my body which created a feeling of anxiety. It was a purely physical thing, not mentally-caused anxiety (although when your body is in fight or flight mode for any reason, it amplifies any worries you have so it can seem like a mental issue). Thank goodness I did not make the mistake of going on antidepressants. Many undiagnosed Hashimoto's patients get on antidepressants and it only makes them much worse in the long run because it's not a brain issue at all, so they're just unnecessarily messing up their brain chemistry to treat a thyroid issue caused by an immune disease. What's more troubling is the autoimmune disease never gets treated properly and so the problem just gets worse. Hashimoto's thyroiditis can actually lead to Hashimoto's encephalitis when the brain becomes inflamed. This is not good—it can kill you or completely incapacitate you from being able to hold down a job or live a normal life—and no amount of antidepressant is going to fix it because it has absolutely nothing to do with the mechanisms of antidepressants. It's an inflamed brain that needs to be treated right away. Unfortunately, this form of curcumin can't really help with brain inflammation, I don't think, but there is a special kind of curcumin that has been created to pass the blood-brain barrier. NOW also sells a version of that. If anyone here thinks they might have Hashimoto's based on what I've said here, I would definitely recommend you join the Hashimoto's 411 group on Facebook (it's free) and learn how to go about the AIP diet properly, also for free. They have helped thousands of people get their lives back. Basically, you just need to learn what to eat and what supplements NOT to take. It is mostly about NOT taking things that will cause an immune response that will hurt you. A lot of stuff in "thyroid support" formulas such as ashwaganda, selenium and iodine cause inflammation and worsen symptoms. So, you sit there popping pills thinking you're doing the right thing, but you're doing the exact opposite. The Hashimoto's 411 group is a patient-only resource where people share the knowledge they have gained with each other—there are no doctors allowed to try to sell their miracle cures. To give you an example of how well autoimmune protocol works, when I first went to the doctor 2 years ago, I was about to jump out a window because my anxiety was out of control. My skin had various rashes, dry yellow patches that cracked and bled, my mind was a mess with brain fog, I had red spots on my feet and ankles, a mysterious scab about 2 inches in circumfrence on my left ankle that looked disgusting, night sweats, heart palpitations, pain everywhere in my body, pale yellow greasy skin, my hair was suddenly getting much thinner, I had chronic fatigue, serious depression, and I kept gaining weight to the point that I was 35 lbs overweight. My doctor diagnosed me with Hashimoto's based on a blood test and told me to take a Levothyroxine pill. That's all he said. I went online and Googled "Hashimoto's" and found the facebook group I mentioned and began reading day and night to see what I could do to cure myself. Apparently, there is no cure, but I went on the AIP diet right away and stopped all my supplements. Within days, I started to feel better. By the end of the week, I felt much better, and by the end of the month MOST of my symptoms were gone. This was not results from Levothyroxine, this was results from the AIP diet. I know this because I have not been staying on the AIP diet for the past several months, since I felt so good I basically thought I was cured. Well, now I have some aches and pains again and I don't enjoy that, so now I am back at it again strictly and I am using this supplement to help speed up recovery again. I know a different kind of curcumin worked pretty well in the past, so I think this will work fine. I've only taken 3 pills so far since yesterday and I'm feeling better already.

Good value; good quality...but I unfortunately, ordered this instead of the one I wanted

The problem with this is that it's really difficult to open. The directions are to pull on the plastic sticking up in the middle of the seal. All that does is tear the plastic off the seal. Then I cut the middle out of the sale with a knife. The next one I got was easier to open, but was full of loose turmeric powder that gets all over my hands and thus my clothes.

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Highly recommended

Great Brand in the USA. I bought this for my father in Tokyo. Easy to take it.

It is not usable

Good

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