Dear Friends,
In my last letter, we reviewed why we think BCM-95 is the best curcumin to take.
In short, BCM-95 offers the cleanest and best approach to increasing curcumin absorption and bioavailability in the bloodstream (up to 700% compared to regular curcumin).
This matters because once curcumin is stripped from turmeric, our bodies don’t digest it as well and the rate of absorption and bioavailability goes way down.
The patented BCM-95 offers an “all-turmeric” method to addressing this issue, with the makers finding that by marrying curcumin and essential oil from turmeric, the absorption rate skyrockets.
Today, we’re going to review some of the key scientific findings with BCM-95 to give you a sense of how our TrueCurcumin product, which contains 500mg of BCM-95 in each capsule, may help you.
Keeping CRP in a Healthy Range
BCM-95 has been the subject of over 90 studies and research papers examining potential benefits, as well as safety. This is more than any other enhanced curcumin ingredient – and the library of published research grows each year.
The most important reason to take curcumin as a supplement is because it can help you maintain a healthy inflammation response. That’s curcumin’s main superpower – and most of its health benefits stem from this property.
As we’ve discussed before, inflammation often gets demonized, but without the inflammation function, you wouldn’t live very long.
You want a healthy inflammation response that protects you from threats to your health, but the inflammation subsides to a normal range when the threat dissipates.
As you may know, a blood marker your doctor likely monitors is C-reactive protein (or CRP), which is used to assess inflammation in the body.
One of the most valuable ways that curcumin and BCM-95 can help you, is by working to keep CRP in a healthy range.
This helps your health in countless ways because unchecked inflammation can negatively affect pretty much every key system in your body.
Feel Better, Move Better
In terms of specific benefits you can experience, joint health should be near the top of the list. This includes joint comfort and function, and mobility, which BCM-95 has been shown to do when taken regularly.
If you want these specific benefits, I suggest taking 1,000mg of BCM-95 (which is 2 TrueCurcumin capsules daily) for the first 8 to 12 weeks.
Once you feel like you’ve plateaued in terms of joint health, you can try just taking 1 capsule a day to maintain benefits.
You may be wondering… “how do I know if my joint benefits have plateaued?”
Of course, one way is based on how you feel, but you can also track your results on some basic joint function tests.
For example, monitor how many steps you can walk in 5 minutes.
Typically, as your joints or muscles feel better, you’re walking speed improves.
The number of steps you take in a fixed amount of time may be an indicator of when your results plateau.
Timing yourself walking up and down stairs is another test to assess joint function and how a supplement may be helping you.
Brain Health Benefits
Beyond joint health, another potential benefit of the BCM-95 in TrueCurcumin is supporting mood and cognitive function.
Curcumin can cross the brain’s protective blood-brain barrier, which is a key reason why it can help brain health.
Results typically aren’t immediate, and you should expect it to take around 6 to 8 weeks to experience some benefits.
In addition to the healthy inflammation response properties of curcumin we discussed, research indicates curcumin may have positive effects on neurotransmitter activity in the brain.
As with many body systems, maintaining balance is key, and curcumin can help support these efforts, which may help your memory, cognitive function and mood.
Liver Health and Immune System Function
The last two specific areas that I think should be highlighted are liver health and immune system function.
More work needs to be done, but initial research indicates BCM-95 can help support liver health and may help you maintain already-healthy liver enzyme levels.
Supporting immune system function is more of a longer-term benefit associated with healthy aging and protecting cellular health.
The potent antioxidant properties of BCM-95 curcumin help reduce oxidative stress and are very valuable for supporting immune system health, in addition to the other properties we already discussed.
For the last 16 years, we’ve been offering TrueCurcumin with BCM-95, and it’s one of our most popular products.
If you or a loved one want to try it, you can find TrueCurcumin at naturecity.com – and as always please reach out if you have any questions.
Yours for Good Health,
Carl Pradelli
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