How does curcumin benefit skin?
How does curcumin benefit skin? “Let food be your medicine, and medicine food,” is advice credited to the father of medicine, Hippocrates. Fast-forward about 2,400 years — it seems that hardly a week goes by without an announcement that some study has concluded that a certain food item has specific health benefits. Curcumin is one of those items that shows promise of providing a variety of health benefits. Curcumin is the major component of the herb turmeric. Turmeric is found in India and other parts of Asia and Africa, and it’s related to ginger. Its aromatic, yellow rhizome (underground stem) is turned into a powder and used as a food flavoring or dye. Curcumin is found in the rhizome and is what gives turmeric its yellow color [source: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]. Scientists agree that
