#019 Dr. Darya and Kevin Rose Talk Meditation Retreats, Diet, Seasonal Eating, and More
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Is Turmeric a Toxic Enzyme?
Turmeric is slightly toxic to our body. It activates all these phase two detoxifying enzymes, which are involved in preventing your body from converting something like nitrite in your bacon to nitrosamines, which are carcinogens. Some of the compound, some of these curcuminoids in the turmeric are made as a response to the plants to fend off like insects and, you know, fungus and things are going to kill the plant. The aromatic tamerone has been shown actually just in the past year to cross over the blood brain barrier and increase neural stem cell proliferation. So that's very interesting. Do you add a black pepper to your tea? Yeah.
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