Curcumin ( Turmeric Extract ) has been shown to have all kinds of health benefits. Researchers
has found hundred studies and lists what dosage had what specific outcome in trying to
ameliorate what disease. The study says: “Some promising effects have been observed in patients
with various diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease,” arthritis, Crohn’s disease,
irritable bowel syndrome, diabetes and 23 other diseases are listed. these are all proinflammatory diseases. And the curcumin found in turmeric is a very powerful anti-inflammatory.

So, what about hangovers: The study says that curcumin has also shown protection against liver
conditions, chronic arsenic exposure and alcohol intoxication. it was published by a Japanese
team. In this article from 2011, They found that this curcumin solution significantly reduced the
amount of acetaldehyde in the blood after alcohol consumption.

Acetaldehyde is a toxic byproduct of ethanol (or alcohol) metabolism. Acetaldehyde is some 10 to
30 times as toxic as alcohol itself. It’s one of the ways drinking alcohol makes you feel like crap
and gives you a hangover. Some people, predominantly East Asians, have a mutation in their
alcohol dehydrogenase gene, which makes them convert ethanol to acetaldehyde unusually fast.
And, they break acetaldehyde down more slowly, leading to a very high concentration of
acetaldehyde. Some estimates say 6 as much as normal. And this leads to something known as
the alcohol flush reaction, where people’s neck and face turn quite red.

so curcumin reduces acetaldehyde, making alcohol metabolism less toxic, so you have less of a
chance of getting a hangover, or at least it won’t be as bad. This is because your liver seems to
treat curcumin like it would a foreign substance, so it doesn’t absorb it very well. When you
consume curcumin on its own, there is only a tiny rise in the levels in your bloodstream. A
compound in black pepper called piperine inhibits the process in the liver that hinders curcumin
absorption. This study found that curcumin bioavailability went up 2000% , it will be processed
through the lymphatic system, helping to bypass the liver.

The metabolism of alcohol to acetate causes the formation of reactive oxygen species also known
as free radicals.These free radicals cause direct oxidative stress to tissue and organs throughout
the body.

Curcumin has high antioxidant activity. Curcumin is capable of scavenging a variety of reactive
oxygen species including superoxide anion radical, hydrogen peroxidehydroxyl radical, singlet
oxygen, nitric oxide, and other organic free radicals