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Does turmerics reputation translate into real health benefits? While Kamal Patel was probing through the reams of user data on examine.com - a website that calls itself "the internet's largest database of nutrition and supplement research" - before a planned revamp later this year, he discovered that the most searched-for supplement on the website was curcumin, a distinctive yellow-orange chemical that is extracted from the rhizomes of turmeric, a tall plant in the ginger family, native to Asia.
Clinical trials show that curcumin, present in the spice, may help fight osteoarthritis and other diseases, but there's a catch -- bioavailability, or how to get it into the blood
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