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Can curcumin treat depression? what exactly does it do to the brain of a depressed person? could it be a way of curing depression or just a way or helping treat it?
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Unclear how much: Curcumin, known for anti-inflammatory &oxidative stress-fighting properties. Curcumin found to favorably affect two critical processes at the core of learning and memory. One driver of this process is brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a type of growth hormone that functions in your brain(decreased in depression) a controlled trial, 60 people showed Curcumin better than prozac at 6wks
Answered 10/17/2019
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