Making plans to change your health or your lifestyle is important, but at some point you have to stop just doing and start taking action.
The recommended dosage for curcumin as an anti-inflammatory is 400 to 600 milligrams three times per day. To achieve a similar amount of curcumin in the form of turmeric would require a dosage of 8,000 to 60,000 milligrams three times a day.
Turmeric supplements are essentially the spice itself. It is usually sold in tablet form, but is no different the using the spice yourself. What you want to have is the active ingredient of curcumin for your diet. Turmeric only contains at best six percent and as low as two percent curcumin. This percentage of curcumin is not enough to get a strong enough dose to make a significant difference in your health[3],[4].