One of the questions my readers have recently asked me is this: Do turmeric and piperine make you lose weight?

People’s interest in turmeric and piperine is due to the offerings of products based on these substances to lose weight.
But do these products promote weight loss? And how?

Let’s see it together starting from here: what are they?

TURMERIC AND PIPERINA: WHAT THEY ARE

Turmeric as we know is a spice.
One of its active ingredients, or curcumin, is a phenol that is often associated with another active ingredient, that of black pepper, or piperine, an alkaloid substance that like many other alkaloids has an effect on the nervous system.

The reason for this association is simple: curcumin, therefore the best known active ingredient in turmeric, is better absorbed when combined with piperine, which also allows a longer effect, slowing down its hepatic degradation.

Therefore with piperine curcumin becomes more bio-available and has a longer lasting effect.
In short, in association with black pepper, we assimilate curcumin better.

• Be careful though.
  Curcumin is unstable and poorly available for absorption. This is why curcumin abounds in natural supplements, but is hardly used in pharmacognosy.
  And this already must make us doubt a little about the effectiveness of a curcumin supplement.
• Today it is also possible to have supplements based on curcumin alone , which with a particular thermal and encapsulation process (with polymers, lipid nanoparticles, etc.), are able to give the same advantages or greater advantages in terms of absorption of turmeric and piperine together.

But as we have seen, the effectiveness is however limited to the fragility of this active ingredient, which tends to degrade very easily.

• Orally, almost 99% of curcumin is excreted.

In scientific studies that speak positively of curcumin’s properties, some authors point out that the type of curcumin used in laboratories is manipulated to have greater bioavailability or is not administered orally.

• So in general there is a difference between the curcumin used in some studies and the one we buy ourselves , there is a difference in the dosage and in the type of administration.

That said, do turmeric and piperine make you lose weight? And how?