Now
there's one more reason to enjoy your favorite curry dish. Turmeric, a spice commonly found in
many Indian curry dishes, has been found to improve memory and cognition in as
little as one hour.
While
conducting the research for my book Boost Your Brain Power in 60 Seconds (Rodale, 2015), I came across an exciting
study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. The double-blind,
placebo-controlled study explored the effects of one of turmeric's active
ingredients known as curcumin on sixty healthy adults aged sixty to eighty-five
to determine whether the spice has any short- or long-term memory or cognitive
effects.
Conducted
at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, researches
assessed the mental effects of curcumin supplementation after one hour, three
hours, and four weeks. They
