When you drink turmeric and ginger every day, it lowers body inflammation, eases joint and muscle pain and even improves digestion.
In safe food amounts, turmeric and ginger helps your body's immune system, although when consumed in high daily doses the turmeric and ginger can cause upset stomach and even interact with blood thinning medications.
The main benefits of drinking turmeric and ginger every day are less inflammation, better digestion and pain relief.
Regular use of drinking turmeric and ginger every day can soothe sore muscles after exercise and ease stiff joints.
Ginger helps the food move through your stomach faster and reduces gas, bloating and nausea and the active compounds like curcumin and gingerol block pathways that cause swelling and cellular damage.
However doses of turmeric and ginger can lower blood sugar, affecting diabetes medication and both plants of ginger and turmeric can slow blood clotting, which is also risky if you take prescription blood thinner medications and too much turmeric and ginger can also lead to heartburn, acid reflux or even diarrhea.
What you should not mix with turmeric are blood thinners, iron supplements and diabetes drugs as turmeric can increase your bleeding risks as well as drop blood sugar too low and even block absorption of iron.
Blood thinner drugs like aspirin, warfarin or even clopidogrel that is combined or mixed with turmeric raise your bleeding risks.
And insulin or oral glucose lowering drugs that are mixed with turmeric can also cause severe low blood sugar also known as hypoglycemia.
Turmeric's antioxidant properties can also interfere with how certain cancer treatments work as well.
And high doses of turmeric can also strain your liver when they are mixed with medications such as amiodarone or methotrexate.
You should also avoid iron supplements, clot slowing herbs and high oxalate pairings with turmeric.
Large amounts of turmeric can promote kidney stone formation in prone people.
Garlic, ginger, ginkgo, or even vitamin E supplements that are combined with turmeric also increase your bleeding risks and should be avoided with turmeric.
And turmeric also binds to iron and reduces iron absorption, making anemia worse.
When you mix turmeric and apple cider vinegar, it can help to manage your blood sugar as well as lower inflammation and even aid digestion, although if the apple cider vinegar and turmeric are not diluted properly it can lead to upset stomach.
The acetic acid and curcumin in turmeric and apple cider can help to stabilize your blood sugar levels after you eat your meals.
And turmeric also contains curcumin, that also helps soothe body tissues and supports your joint health.
Both turmeric and apple cider vinegar and even curcumin are traditional remedies that help improving digestion and supporting weight management goals.
Also both apple cider vinegar and turmeric and even curcumin can affect blood thinning or insulin levels if they are consumed in very high doses and always dilute the apple cider vinegar with one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar into at least 8 ounces of water.