Dr. Eric Berg DC
January 25, 2026 · 3 min read
½ Teaspoon of This Works Like Ibuprofen (Doctors Won’t Tell You)
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Key Takeaways
- 1Just one half teaspoon of concentrated turmeric can be comparable to ibuprofen for inflammation.
- 2To understand how this works, you need to know there are four master switches that turn pain and inflammation up or down.
- 3The first dial is the pain and inflammatory factory that produces pain signals and inflammation.
- 4Ibuprofen is excellent at turning off the first dial quickly, but here's the problem: this pathway also protects your stomach and kidneys.
- 5Tylenol doesn't affect any of these pathways - it works in your brain to shut off pain perception through the central nervous system, but does noth...
Overview
Just one half teaspoon of concentrated turmeric can be comparable to ibuprofen for inflammation. I'm not talking about the turmeric you sprinkle on your food, but a concentrated extract containing curcumin, which is the compound doing the real work.
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