{"id":78889,"date":"2018-05-18T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/curcumin-improves-memory-and-mood-new-ucla-study-says"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:15:21","slug":"curcumin-improves-memory-and-mood-new-ucla-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/curcumin-improves-memory-and-mood-new-ucla-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Curcumin improves memory and mood, new UCLA study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/curcumin-improves-memory-and-mood-new-ucla-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Found in turmeric, curcumin has previously been shown to have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties in lab studies. It also has been suggested as a possible reason that senior citizens in India, where curcumin is a dietary staple, have a lower prevalence of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and better cognitive performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExactly how curcumin exerts its effects is not certain, but it may be due to its ability to reduce brain in\ufb02ammation, which has been linked to both Alzheimer\u2019s disease and major depression,\u201d said Dr. Gary Small, director of geriatric psychiatry at UCLA\u2019s Longevity Center and of the geriatric psychiatry division at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semel.ucla.edu\/\">Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA<\/a>, and the study\u2019s first author.<\/p>\n<p>The double-blind, placebo-controlled study involved 40 adults between the ages of 50 and 90 years who had mild memory complaints. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either a placebo or 90 milligrams of curcumin twice daily for 18 months.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/curcumin-improves-memory-and-mood-new-ucla-study-says\">http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/curcumin-improves-memory-a...study-says<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found in turmeric, curcumin has previously been shown to have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties in lab studies. It also has been suggested as a possible reason that senior citizens in India, where curcumin is a dietary staple, have a lower prevalence of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and better cognitive performance. \u201cExactly how curcumin exerts its effects is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79091,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78889\/revisions\/79091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}