Curcumin for Tendon Strength
Curcumin may reduce tendon pain through anti-inflammatory effects without improving structure.
Overview
Verdict
How It Works
Dosing & Protocol
Typical dose
- Recommended dose
- No established dose — evidence is insufficient. Tendon studies used 400-1000 mg/day curcuminoids in small, mostly short trials.
- Expected timeframe
- Not established
Protocol
- dose
- Not established for tendon strength
- form
- Bioavailable curcumin
- steps
- Evidence is insufficient: cell and animal work suggests effects on tendon cells, but human trials at 400-1000 mg/day have not shown increased tendon strength or stiffness,Tendon strength responds to mechanical loading — heavy slow resistance and isometrics are the intervention with real evidence,If you supplement at all for tendon, collagen peptides plus vitamin C taken an hour before loading has more support than curcumin,Do not expect curcumin to accelerate return to sport
- timing
- n/a
- duration
- Studies ran 6-12 weeks
Evidence
What the studies say
No studies are yet linked to both Curcumin and Tendon Strength.
Safety
Caveats
Insufficient evidence. Bleeding risk with anticoagulants and antiplatelets; stop before surgery. Avoid in gallstone disease. Rare hepatotoxicity. Avoid therapeutic doses in pregnancy.
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