Hi everyone! I have some super news concerning my close friend "Sherlock." On Friday she just got her FIRST ever curcumin test results. I mean, she had never taken curcumin before. A two-month trial with excellent results: her m-spike is at an all-time low, and her IgG dropped 18%, the biggest drop since 2002. I posted a few details on my blog, and will post more next week after I get my own test results back from the lab. I admit to being surprised at these results, since she took these tests during a period of tremendous stress at work. Since stress has an impact on myeloma, as we know from recent studies, I wasn't sure curcumin would work too well. But hey, it did, in spite of the odds! Take care! Margaret
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That's great to hear, Margaret! A big hooray for your friend!
I switched after five years from Jarrow brand 500 mg curcumin to America's Finest Inc. brand of 500 mg curcumin last month. America's Finest uses Sabinsa's C3 Complex as their exclusive supplier. The capsules I bought were without Bioprene (Sabinsa has the patent on Bioprene). Sabinsa was the source of the curcumin for the MD Anderson human myeloma clinical which has been completed but not published yet.
My M-spike had been stable, no change for the past year. After 30 days on 500 mg America's Finest curcumin(Sabinsa C3 complex) my M-spike dropped 25% (250 mg/dL). Remember I am taking the curcumin in combination with 15 mg Revlimid and 20 mg/week dexamethasone. I plan on continuing with the Sabinsa curcumin same dosage and monitoring. I purchased it directly from America's Finest Inc. (on the web). It is ~$23.00/90 500 mg capsules if purchased by the bottle, but drops to ~$11.00/90 500 mg capsules if purchased by the 12 bottle case.
I would like to hear from anyone else on the Sabinsa curcumin C3 complex. If it does not say C3 Complex (trademark) on the label, it is not Sabinsa curcumin regardless of what the supplier/manufacturer tells you. Also be aware of size of the capsules. If the capsule looks smaller than other capsules, they may not contain 500 mg.
TerryÂ
The only other type of curcumin (aside from C3 Complex, I mean)Â I have taken has been in the powder form. Before I discovered that I could buy the C3 Complex over here (in powder form, I mean, and recently I also discovered a reliable source for C3 Complex capsules), I ordered from a place in California, with a name that is something like Natural Supplement Formulations (the info is on my blog under Curcumin Brands, but I am in a rush now to get off to work so can't check). Anyway, I took that other curcumin mixed in warm coconut milk for 8 weeks, and my IgG counts went down almost 20%Â in early 2006. But the taste was dreadful. Yuck. The grain was also coarser and harder to dissolve in the milk.
When I discovered that Sabinsa had an Italian supplier in Milan, I never went back to the California curcumin, which I am sure is fine since it brought my counts down. But the taste of C3 Complex is so much more palatable! And it's easier to dissolve.
Capsules: I have never taken anything BUT the C3 Complex capsules. And my friend Sherlock just completed her first 8 weeks on curcumin (never took it before, that is) and her counts went down 18%: she took C3 complex capsules with bioperine.
I can't say if other brands, brands that do not use the C3, are good or bad, since most of my experience has been with C3 Complex, both in powder and in capsule form. So Terry's observations are interesting, it's good to have feedback on things that I have not tried, and probably never will. If it works, why fix it?, I think the saying goes...
Right now I am testing Biocurcumax, allegedly the more bioavailable form of curcumin. I am taking 8 grams a day of it. We'll see. Next tests in March.
Dashing off to work! Take care, everyone (and Mary, thanks for the funny e-mails, I will write to you later!),
Margaret. Florence, Italy. Blog URL: http://margaret.healthblo...
Hi Terry,
I've been using C3 Complex since last summer. Two brands, Doctors Best and NSI, both with bioperine. My results have been equivocal - perhaps the supplements have slowed the increase of the M-spike and IgG, but they have not had effects as dramatic as you describe.
I use two brands only because I'm not a very trusting soul when it comes to unregulated supplements.
I didn't know about the AFI case price - thank you for that information.
Don
Margaret-
Is Sherlock either Mgus or Smoldering? 8 of the 17 patient submissions in the Curcumin Patient Study are either MGUS/SMM. More than half? Margaret, has anything in your research ever indicated that curcumin was more efficatious with mgus/smm?
"I have some super news concerning my close friend "Sherlock."
On Friday she just got her FIRST ever curcumin test results. I mean, she had never taken curcumin before. A two-month trial with excellent results: her m-spike is at an all-time low, and her IgG dropped 18%, the biggest drop since 2002. I posted a few details on my blog, and will post more next week after I get my own test results back from the lab."
Please encourage Sherlock to post her curcumin experience on the CPS- 17 submissions is far from conclusive but it is interesting non-the-less.
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