Turmeric and Black Pepper Combined Believed to Offer More Health Benefits

(Newswire.net — March 21, 2017) Orlando, FL — Turmeric and black pepper are two of the most popular natural ingredients in cooking today. Individually or separately, they may offer a range of health advantages. However, there is a reason why the use of these two ingredients together is gaining the interest of consumers and scientists.

Turmeric and black pepper combined are believed to offer more health benefits. There is only one explanation for the popularity of the combination of these two ingredients, and it is that curcumin has low bioavailability and black pepper is a potential bioavailability-enhancing ingredient.

Curcumin is an active ingredient found in turmeric. Turmeric is a spice with a deep yellow-orange color and a potent taste. It has been used for thousands of years for kitchen and possible medicinal purposes.

The curcumin it contains is believed to be responsible for many of the spice’s potential therapeutic effects. It is believed to offer antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiseptic, antiviral, anti-carcinogenic, and antibiotic properties.

Black pepper contains a key chemical called piperine. It can be compared to a chemical called capsaicin found in chili. Once ingested, curcumin gets easily metabolized before it is absorbed by the body, and this is why it is known to have low bioavailability. Black pepper may be able to inhibit certain intestinal digestive enzymes, which may help to increase the body’s ability to absorb nutrients and pharmaceutical drugs.

One study revealed that when 2g of curcumin was taken, it had very low serum levels. However, when the same amount was taken with 20 mg of piperine, the bioavailability of curcumin increased by 2000%.

The researchers suggested that black pepper was responsible for the dramatic improvement of curcumin absorption. When curcumin is absorbed by the body well, many of its potentially therapeutic properties are also delivered.

Thus, the combination of these two ingredients is believed to offer more health benefits. It is also important to note that piperine may have the potential to trigger the transient receptor potential vanilloid type-1 (TRPV1) in the body, therefore may promote pain reduction.

Today, piperine is widely marketed as BioPerine. Some of most popular curcumin supplements contain BioPerine.

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