It makes sense though. Kind of like calcium. If you eat calcium in its natural form, you have little trouble with it and kidney stones. If you take the pills, and you are prone to kidney stones, you're in big trouble.
Look at anything out there and the natural form works better. Particularly in the case of turmeric when you consider that to get the powder they boil it and boiling of most anything removes a lot of the benefit.
Now, I wonder, thinking of the East Indian recipes I've collected over the years, most include peppers and some type of oils (coconut being seen a lot), if the curcuma doesn't work with the oils AND the capacian to be most effective.
Somewhere I have a recipe that calls for toasting a lot of the spices and then taking slices of ginger and turmeric and a couple of others and making a paste that you cook in the oil.
Lynda
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