This Stuff Kills Fat Cells

A Newly Discovered Turmeric Curcumin Benefit

New research shows that curcumin prevents baby fat cells from becoming adults while also causing adult fat cells to commit suicide.


The list of curcumin’s benefits keeps growing. Curcumin started off as an effective pain reliever and anti-inflammatory, but then we found out it also blocks estrogen, boosts testosterone, improves heart health, makes you stronger, dissolves arterial plaques, stops your knees from aching, and reduces the risk of diabetes. (More info here.)

And now there’s new research showing that curcumin causes fat cells to undergo apoptosis, which is the term for cellular suicide. When apoptosis begins, the cell’s surface starts to bubble and churn, almost like it’s boiling. Then, its nucleus starts to fragment. Eventually, the cell tears asunder, spilling its disassociated guts into the interstitial sea of fluid.

A cellular clean-up crew of phagocytes, one accustomed to wet work, arrives to dispose of the corpses and there’s no investigation because they know curcumin was to blame.

This new curcumin research also shows that curcumin prevents pre-adipocytes – baby fat cells – from developing into full-blown adipocytes. Here’s a summary of the science and what it means for you.

The Study, Short and Sweet

The Taiwanese researchers already knew from a few recent studies that curcumin supplementation reduces a high-fat diet-induced increase in body fat, but they didn’t know the mechanism behind curcumin’s hate for plumpness.

To figure it out, they exposed mouse pre-adipocytes to varying concentrations of curcumin for varying time frames. They also exposed pre-adipocytes to a low dosage of curcumin for an hour, followed by a 24-hour incubation period.

They found that curcumin (Buy at Amazon) inhibited adipocyte differentiation. In other words, the supplement prevents fat cells from maturing and fulfilling their ultimate function: storing fat.

The high doses of curcumin actually caused fat cells to commit suicide, while the lower doses prevented the maturation of the baby fat cells. They suspect it had to do with curcumin’s modulating effects on the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway, which helps determine the fate of cells.

The authors seemed pretty jazzed, writing:

“These findings suggest that curcumin supplementation could be an effective strategy for treating or preventing development of obesity by a curcumin-induced reduction in the number or pre-adopocytes and the fat mass of adipocytes.”

How to Use This Info

When you think about it, curcumin’s effects on fat cells may have something to do with many of the other benefits listed in the opening paragraph.

Collectively, our fat cells are a major endocrine organ with a powerful impact on things like the regulation of appetite, insulin sensitivity, immunological responses, and vascular disease, so if curcumin causes fewer fat cells to form while causing others to expire, it makes sense that it would have so many beneficial side effects.

As far as how much curcumin to take to experience any reduction in fat mass, it’s difficult to say. The scientists exposed the fat cells to a concentration of up to 50 micrograms of curcumin to make them commit hari-kari, and 30 micrograms to keep pre-adipocytes from forming into full-fledged adipocytes, but given that the body weights of us human is so diverse, it’s hard to extrapolate a suitable dosage.

But, given that 30 micrograms is awfully small (a thousand micrograms equals 1 milligram), the standard Biotest dosage of curcumin would definitely bring the average person into therapeutic range.

What’s more, Biotest’s Micellar Curcumin (Buy at Amazon) formula contains solid lipid curcumin particles that produce 95 times more free curcumin in the bloodstream than standardized curcumin with piperine (Gota VS et al, 2010).

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Reference

  1. Wu LY et al. Curcumin Attenuates Adipogenesis by Inducing Preadipocyte Apoptosis and Inhibiting Adipocyte Differentiation. Nutrients. 2019 Oct;11(10):2307. PMC.
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damn you TC
might have to buy a few bottles now to try it

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This sounds horrible, but if curcumin is such a mad fat cell slayer, how come there are so many fat people in India? I read that south Asians have a slower metabolism, but they eat a lot of curry. Must be no match for all the ghee. Mmm, curry. Still, I will be pulling some of those turmeric roots out of my freezer to grate into my pot of chicken for this week.

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Caffeine has a well documented effect on fat loss, as do many stimulants.

How come everyone standing in line at Starbucks is so fat?

Because…

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A supplement can only help so much.

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Indeed. I gave credit to the ghee, but there are the quantities.

Adding the following article to what @T3hPwnisher already mentioned:

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They eat tons of turmeric, which contains curcumin. However, curcumin has a such a piss poor absorption rate that very little of it gets into the blood stream. You have to take tons of the stuff, or alternately, something with a high absorption rate like our Micellar Curcumin.

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This site needs new blood.

50% of the “articles” are just reworded ads for your store. BTW, I have bought from you guys before and I will restock the dark blue pills soon. So I do like your store, but it’s repetitive.

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I wrote an article recently. What would you want written about dude? What new blood are you seeking?

I gather a garden-variety turmeric root, even if I put a lot in my food, is in a less bioavailable form. My question was half-glib, half-serious, because I seem to recall that South Asians have a general trend of a slower metabolism, and clearly, Indian food is full of fattening ingredients. I weigh a few kilos less now that don’t live in an Indian neighborhood.

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Does the Micellar Curcumin sold by T Nation have polysorbate in it?

Not as far as I know.

Just solid lipid curcumin particles, aka Longvida Optimized curcumin.

Ok…but which lipid is used? I cannot find any info on it from the product page.

Do you have any studies to back up your “south Asians have a slower metabolism…” claim? Have you been to India like a dozen times researching the health and wellness ecosystem in place there with a few papers to your credit? You guys read up or experience bits of Indian culture, especially bits that have been adapted to American palates and draw a fat lot of conclusions out of patently insufficient data…

Those dark blue pills are great