Ep 39: The Truth About Turmeric Shots | Dr. Stephen Tates

Dr. Stephen Tates shares the truth about turmeric shots - are they really as beneficial as they claim? Learn about the potential side effects of curcumin and the benefits of incorporating turmeric into your diet. Watch now for the honest and science-based facts!

In this episode, Dr. Stephen Tates explains what turmeric shots are and their benefits. Turmeric is a powerful anti-inflammatory herb that can reduce inflammation throughout the body. It is commonly used for exercise recovery and can help with conditions such as arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, and lupus. 

Turmeric is considered a kitchen herb and is often used as a seasoning. It is best taken with black pepper to enhance its effects. However, not everyone can take turmeric, especially those on certain medications or with specific health conditions. It is important to get turmeric from trusted sources and follow proper proportions when making turmeric shots at home.

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Turmeric shots, these little bottles of orange, yellow liquid, uh, that's taking the internet by storm. Well, I personally would like to know what a turmeric shot is. What's in it? What does it do? Who should take it and who should not take it? So we're going to answer that question today or those questions today. My name is David Maloof and I'm the host of Adventures in Good Health, the place where we discuss natural approaches.

to good health. To help answer our questions today about turmeric shots is Dr. Stephen Tates. Doc is a master herbalist, a naturopath, an author, an ambassador of integrative medicine, and Doc has over 50 years of herbal medicine experience. And today we're gonna put some of that 50 years to good use to figure out what the heck is a turmeric shot.

So doc, yeah, help me. Okay. This, because if you go on YouTube, you see all kinds of videos about how to make this, uh, including shorts, where they just kind of, they just mix a bunch of stuff together. And that's like, Ooh, it's wonderful. It's great. Uh, you can also find it on Amazon. You see it in herb stores. It seems like it's taking the world by storm. Uh, but what, what the heck is a turmeric shot? Wow.

We should really talk about what turmeric does for the body anyways. Now, some people will take turmeric in capsule form. Some of them will sprinkle it on their food, but the chance is like in a concentrated form of the turmeric. Now I'll explain a little while that it's not just turmeric by itself, but turmeric is like the primary ingredient in there. Turmeric, one of its claim to fame is the fact that turmeric is a very, very powerful...

anti-inflammatory. It reduces inflammation throughout the body from head to toe. Many of our health conditions come from poor circulation and inflammation, things that have gotten blocked and swell in the body. Turmeric has gotten its reputation because of the curcumin property in the turmeric that helps in reducing inflammation. It also helps with inflammation around the eyes, which contributes to that.

degenerative eye disease as they call it. It helps with arthritis or any kind of inflammation, your arthritis, your rheumatoid arthritis, your osteoporosis, your MS, your lupus, your gout, all those are forms of inflammation. Some of your high conditions can be forms of inflammation. Some of your kidney swelling will be a sign of inflammation. So the turmeric helps reduce the inflammation.

or reduces swelling in the body, which then helps the blood start to circulate better. It's also used as a herb to take after exercises. I just came from my trainer. It's been an hour and a half this morning, lifting weights and stretching. He's very creative. He said, today we're going to do it. And I'd be like, can the body do that today? And then there'll be...

Typically some soreness, but for those who have a lot of soreness after an extensive workout, the turmeric is one of those things that helps reduce the soreness because it reduces the tightness, relaxes the muscles, reduces any inflammation, gets that blood flowing, and you can recover from that soreness from your workout so much quicker when you take a nice shot of turmeric with some of the other ingredients as necessary to help.

Everything moved better. I have a saying and you've heard me say this a number of times that movement is life. Stagnation is death. So the more things are moving, if it's bowel movement, if it's circulation, if it's water and moisture, the healthier you're going to be or the more the body can help in its own repairing process. And then when you have an herb like turmeric that reduces the inflammation,

then everything moves better. So that movement comes in even more because it's just blockages because you're taking the turmeric again with other kinds of things, but you take it. It also just got a couple, just a couple of questions. Okay, sure. I've got turmeric in my kitchen, in my kitchen cabinet. I mean, is it, it's a, is it a kitchen herb? And now a quick word from our sponsor, Dr. Tate's herbal tinctures and tonics.

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order. For more information, click the links below. And now back to the show. Is that the same turmeric that we're talking about? Turmeric does fall into what is called kitchen medicines. Your onions, your garlic, your paprika, your curry, all is considered as seasonings, but they're therapeutics that are called kitchen medicine. So turmeric is used a lot as a seasoning because it's got a nice flavor.

But then it helps with everything that I've mentioned previously. There are other herbs that do that same type of thing. Some people take turmeric and capsules. Some would take that whole turmeric root, you know, scrape some of it off, ground it up, mix it in their protein shake, you know, more raw form, sprinkle in their foods, you know, and so there's many forms. The turmeric shant as you were showing, that's the concentrated turmeric.

but it's not turmeric alone because turmeric works better when it has its favorite friend, which is black pepper. With the turmeric. All right, so this has black pepper in it among other things. So you're saying that it's best if it's taken with black pepper. Yeah, because black pepper helps enhance the power of the turmeric, but reduces potential...

irritations or problems that turmeric can have when you take it by itself. Because if you're looking for a turmeric shot, it's going to be hard to find one like you show with just turmeric. It's going to have black pepper with it. It may have other ingredients like ginger or cayenne or oregano, stuff like that, but it needs to have the black pepper because they blend well together. Who can take it and who shouldn't take it? Well,

David Maloof (07:13.43)

which as I mentioned earlier to people who shouldn't take it with certain conditions. Turmeric by itself, not everybody can take. We talked about it before we came on the air that, you know, turmeric is not good if you're on chemotherapy or you're on dialysis or you're diabetic or on diabetic medication or you've got blood thinners or...

autoimmune issues where you don't want the immune system building, you want to suppress it. Some people have that with certain conditions and the turmeric with the black pepper and sometimes with other ingredients actually accelerates the immune system, which is good for most people unless you want medication to suppress, you know that. And then also the last is like, if you want blood thinners because the turmeric helps reduce inflammation, cleanses the blood.

So it gets rid of that thickness. So actually, it's a natural thinner. And if you're on blood thinner, then you've got an issue. There's a couple more things like a woman who's in the last trimester of a pregnancy, you young children like two, three, four, five years of age, because it has a kick to it. And you've tried it and it does have a very, very strong kick. You know you're taking medicine, you know, herbal medicine, but you know you're taking it. But then...

Everybody else can take it. It's just understanding how much you should take or the proportion. Now, if you're sprinkling it on your foods, that's one thing. If you're taking it in capsules, you're falling in directions, because typically capsules will have black pepper and ginger mixed in it, or black pepper especially. But if you're taking the shot, like if you get that turmeric with some of the other ingredients, you don't take that down like you're taking moonshine. You know, one of these things like this.

I mean, it won't hurt you, but it will feel like it's hurting you because it has that kind of strong kick. So it's something you take little sips off. All right. All right. So it's something you take little sips and it's a shot. So, it's a small, like a couple of ounces. That would be like one or two ounces, small quantities. I mean, this little bottle is like two and a half ounces. And this came from a store, a local herbal store. So if you go on YouTube.

David Maloof (09:38.702)

You will find what appears to be hundreds of videos of people, you know, mixing their own do it yourself, home remedy type of versions. And often, you know, they have the turmeric. They'll include some ginger. Sometimes I've seen garlic, black pepper, of course, some honey and lemon and orange. Often though they’re they're kind of short on

quantities and, and they, they seem to be a hundred different videos that are kind of variations of the same, of the same recipe. Is there a concern about how much turmeric one would take, especially if they're mixing it themselves versus getting it from a trusted source? I would first to answer that question. You want to get it from a trusted source.

Or you want to check with your local naturopath or herbalist because one, as we talk about earlier, your health conditions or medication you might be on, that might be a concern. But more than that, if you're not into mixing stuff, if you don't have any history of mixing roots and herbs or even baking a cake, which will help you understand that proportions are important, you could have too much cayenne in the mixture.

or too much turmeric in the mixture or not enough turmeric. And regardless of the formula you may be given, you know, you don't know who's giving you that formula. So if you're not used to mixing stuff, especially herbs, and don't have that respect for how powerful they can be and disruptive if you mix too much, you're better off just going to your local health food store, calling somebody to walk you through that. Otherwise,

Just, you know, don't try it. Don't try it because I've seen so many mistakes people make, not just with turmeric, but trying to make herbal formulas and you have no experience in mixing stuff together because we talked about earlier, one of my things that always, I won't say annoys me, but concerns me is that people tend to think, well, it's an herb and a plant, so it's safe. You know, I don't have to worry about any kind of issue.

It might not be side effects, but it could be irritation. It could be too much burning. It could accelerate the bowel movement or suppress the bowel movement, depending on the mixtures you're making. Turmeric falls into that category. You do too much, then it's going to overstimulate the body. So proportions are important to get the maximum benefit, which is why it's better for you just benefit hours, because those shots are not expensive, you know, to go and get your own.

and get custom taken it that way until somebody actually teaches you how to make it. Not a video. An herbalist or a natural path may very well provide you a recipe that is, you know, there's some thought that went into that recipe and the quantities and the doses because it is medicine. This is medicine. All right. This is not just a little orange juice or no, no, no, this is medicine. That stuff. And, you know, like this particular formula has cayenne pepper.

I know from personal experience that cayenne pepper is a stimulant. Yeah, absolutely. I know that because I used to take it long time ago as a herbal remedy for sore throat and it was effective. But I would take it all day long, little sips of it, having no idea that it was stimulating. And then I wondered why I couldn't get any sleep. That's probably basically because you took so many nights. Yeah. It had me so wound up. So people need to know what's what's what's.

in these recipes, in these tonics or bottles, they're not tonics, but these bottles. Well, I'll just reiterate in your point, you know, you need to know because you can over -stimulate your body like it was up half the night because you had to cayenne, you know, that the mystery we showed with the turmeric and the cayenne and stuff, that's not something you want to take at bedtime because it's accelerating the body. You'll be up three, four o 'clock in the morning talking about, I can't get to sleep.

because you told the body, let's get going. Let's just get some boosting going. Let's speed up the body's metabolism. Just get the blood circulating. Let's empower more energy. So it's better in the morning or in the afternoon. But when you get into the evening, unless like in your case with the sore throat and stuff, you needed that extra kind of air, then you only take a small amount. It's better during the day, not in the evening at bedtime because...

David Maloof (14:29.359)

It's just not like settle right. But it is legit. Oh, if you know what you're doing, I'm going to stop you saying, if you know what you're doing, that turmeric and black pepper by itself together or with the kind of regular, very, very powerful and helping that movement and helping the body heal itself. So, you know, don't think that I'm saying you can't take it. Disappreciated.

really phenomenal healing combination if you know what you're doing. All right, Doc. Well, this is why we have you on the show to kind of clear the air. And it's nice to have someone that I can call on to come on the show to answer some of these quick questions because this seems to be everywhere. And I'm just just naturally suspicious.

a naturally little leery of what seems to be like trendy type things from what you're saying. It's legit. But you need to know what you're doing because it is a medicine. Yeah. And I want to add, I want to repeat what you're saying. Anything that's trendy or new and then say, this is the best thing since sliced bread.

You should always be leery of new things. That's part of what we learn in studying herbs, is to know what you're doing before you do it. Don't try to learn on the go. If something's trendy, you wait till the smoke clears. See if there's any controversy, see if there's been any issues before you jump into something. Or talk to somebody like me or somebody else.

that has been in this for, like you said, 50 years made me feel old, you know, because I use half a century, that sounds a little better. But you always should check before you consume something that's new. That should be a standard. You know, no matter how the hypes are about, it's the best thing ever. Because you know, the more somebody hypes something, the more suspicious you should get anyway. Okay, what's going on here?

All right, so Doc, if someone has questions, obviously they would want to try to reach out or they would want to reach out to a master herbalist or a natural path. If they don't know of someone or if there isn't anyone in their local area, they can reach out to you, is that correct? Absolutely, no matter where they are in the world, that's not a problem. All right, so your phone number is popping up on the screen. And so Doc, what is the best phone number to reach you at?

the 404 -943 -1171. And I've always tell people from the various podcasts we've been on is that if you call, mention that you did, you heard, you know, you heard the both of us on here talking about a particular subject, because then I know you're one of our podcast family and that gets a little extra special treatment because you're part of the podcast family. All right. So what are the benefits? All right, doc.

Thank you very much for being on the show today. My pleasure. Thank you. All right. Well, so I hope you found the information about turmeric shots helpful and informative. It is a medicine and should be respected as such. All right. So if you haven't done so already, I need you to press the subscribe button. That helps the show. It helps the algorithm on YouTube.

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