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Dr. Deanna Minnick

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Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

And what's really interesting, because I love diversity and bringing in the blends, which are oftentimes complimentary in their activity, curry powder tends to have about five different spices. but I have found one at the store. I actually read the label because I want the most amount in my curry powder. So I have found one with turmeric, of course, but then 11 total spices in my curry powder.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

And what's really interesting, because I love diversity and bringing in the blends, which are oftentimes complimentary in their activity, curry powder tends to have about five different spices. but I have found one at the store. I actually read the label because I want the most amount in my curry powder. So I have found one with turmeric, of course, but then 11 total spices in my curry powder.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

So I like that because I think turmeric plays well with other spices, especially black pepper. I mean, there is kind of like this brother sister relationship between those two. One is helping the other. So the black pepper, just a little bit, and the ratio between black pepper to turmeric is like 20 milligrams of black pepper as that powder. and about 2000 milligrams of turmeric powder.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

So I like that because I think turmeric plays well with other spices, especially black pepper. I mean, there is kind of like this brother sister relationship between those two. One is helping the other. So the black pepper, just a little bit, and the ratio between black pepper to turmeric is like 20 milligrams of black pepper as that powder. and about 2000 milligrams of turmeric powder.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

So I like that because I think turmeric plays well with other spices, especially black pepper. I mean, there is kind of like this brother sister relationship between those two. One is helping the other. So the black pepper, just a little bit, and the ratio between black pepper to turmeric is like 20 milligrams of black pepper as that powder. and about 2000 milligrams of turmeric powder.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

So then you enhance bioavailability. And we can talk later about how that happens, but essentially turmeric and black pepper work well together. So when you're using turmeric, there's a hack. The hack is the black pepper, which contains piperine, which slows the metabolism of turmeric in the body. The other hack is bringing in oil.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

So then you enhance bioavailability. And we can talk later about how that happens, but essentially turmeric and black pepper work well together. So when you're using turmeric, there's a hack. The hack is the black pepper, which contains piperine, which slows the metabolism of turmeric in the body. The other hack is bringing in oil.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

So then you enhance bioavailability. And we can talk later about how that happens, but essentially turmeric and black pepper work well together. So when you're using turmeric, there's a hack. The hack is the black pepper, which contains piperine, which slows the metabolism of turmeric in the body. The other hack is bringing in oil.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

And you would know this from Indian cooking of, you know, first having turmeric and a lot of the spices that are introduced early on in the meal with oil. So, right, you get kind of this toasting or this, I would call it more of like a flavor enhancement effect. Because, you know, people ask, you know, when do you add turmeric? When do you add spices?

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

And you would know this from Indian cooking of, you know, first having turmeric and a lot of the spices that are introduced early on in the meal with oil. So, right, you get kind of this toasting or this, I would call it more of like a flavor enhancement effect. Because, you know, people ask, you know, when do you add turmeric? When do you add spices?

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

And you would know this from Indian cooking of, you know, first having turmeric and a lot of the spices that are introduced early on in the meal with oil. So, right, you get kind of this toasting or this, I would call it more of like a flavor enhancement effect. Because, you know, people ask, you know, when do you add turmeric? When do you add spices?

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

And I would say every stretch of the way, especially to help with those advanced glycation end products. Most importantly is to bring turmeric, especially into things like hamburger meat before it has been cooked. So that is most important is before you actually apply the heat to make sure that you've got those spices in your meal. And for some of them,

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

And I would say every stretch of the way, especially to help with those advanced glycation end products. Most importantly is to bring turmeric, especially into things like hamburger meat before it has been cooked. So that is most important is before you actually apply the heat to make sure that you've got those spices in your meal. And for some of them,

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

And I would say every stretch of the way, especially to help with those advanced glycation end products. Most importantly is to bring turmeric, especially into things like hamburger meat before it has been cooked. So that is most important is before you actually apply the heat to make sure that you've got those spices in your meal. And for some of them,

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

Toasting can bring out the aromatic properties. And just even smelling spices is actually going to help our digestion because we're going to start to salivate. We're going to start to release those digestive secretions. So just even smelling the spices in the cooking process is going to be helpful.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

Toasting can bring out the aromatic properties. And just even smelling spices is actually going to help our digestion because we're going to start to salivate. We're going to start to release those digestive secretions. So just even smelling the spices in the cooking process is going to be helpful.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

Toasting can bring out the aromatic properties. And just even smelling spices is actually going to help our digestion because we're going to start to salivate. We're going to start to release those digestive secretions. So just even smelling the spices in the cooking process is going to be helpful.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

Well, that would be a double whammy right there, like an immune enhancing combination, having turmeric with honey, because honey has so many different immune active agents and turmeric is so anti-inflammatory and it's been proposed that it has like something like 50 different healing actions in the body. So that makes sense that your family would be doing that, actually.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

Well, that would be a double whammy right there, like an immune enhancing combination, having turmeric with honey, because honey has so many different immune active agents and turmeric is so anti-inflammatory and it's been proposed that it has like something like 50 different healing actions in the body. So that makes sense that your family would be doing that, actually.

Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them

Well, that would be a double whammy right there, like an immune enhancing combination, having turmeric with honey, because honey has so many different immune active agents and turmeric is so anti-inflammatory and it's been proposed that it has like something like 50 different healing actions in the body. So that makes sense that your family would be doing that, actually.