Re: Curcumin found to be neuroprotective against mercury and help detox after exposure

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> Our findings suggest that curcumin pretreatment has a protective effect

> and that curcumin can be used as a therapeutic agent in mercury

> intoxication. The study indicates that curcumin, an effective

> antioxidant, may have a protective effect through its routine dietary

> intake against mercury exposure.

No question that there is a lot of research about curcumin being good for many

health reasons, but mercury-toxic people need to use it with caution. For those

who have high cysteine, like me, curcumin will push it higher and make people

feel worse.

I love curry and ate loads of it for years. I never had any reason back then to

think that it was doing me any harm, but for years my neurological symptoms kept

getting worse - blinding headaches that came out of nowhere, vision problems,

aches, pains, bizarre rashes that would come & go etc...

Andy has written about cysteine levels, which are important to figure out before

taking too many foods or supplements that are high cysteine. From what I've

read, curcumin can be beneficial for mercury-toxic folks with low cysteine, but

others have to be careful using it.