Turmeric Turmeric is a root used in Ayurvedic cooking for millennia. It has two compounds of note: curcumin, a polyphenol, which has demonstrated anti-inflammatory capabilities, and aromatic turmerone, which may help boost stem cells in the brain. I encourage you to use turmeric in your cooking and supplement as needed for pain or inflammatory cond

Diets of denatured, overcooked foods put tremendous demands on the body’s enzyme capacity, and Dr. Howell believes that this unnecessary, unnatural, and unabated depletion of the body’s enzyme capacity is “one of the paramount causes of premature aging and early death” and the “underlying cause of almost all degenerative disease.”

By this point, you are starting to understand how to keep inflammation in your body to a minimum: avoiding sugars, grains, and oxidized oils, while consuming ample plant nutrients and fiber (we’ll cover more in the following chapters before we put it all together in the Plan).