Day 3 of taking turmeric everyday

In a few days, I might decide on a few datapoints to pay attention to. Meanwhile, the biggest thing that happened today was succumbing to food delivery. I hardly do that. What made today different was an early morning decision to give myself the day off.

My sister flies back home today, drawing the curtain on her 4-day birthday holiday in Kuala Lumpur. On her first day here we went rock climbing. The next day, we strapped the harness again to go through a jungle gym/ninja warrior type obstacle course. The day after that, we were supposed to go hiking but she had chosen the hotel she was staying at for their gym and it would be a waste not to go. They had an amazing pool, which is more my thing, but I went to the gym, too, and did a few stretches, some conditioning exercises and weights. I'm no gym bug so in the hour that I was there, I might have done half an hour's worth of working out, which was enough for me, given that I've been more active the past three days than I have been all month.

So as I take in Day 3's dose of turmeric, I tried to notice what else is going on in my body, mind and heart.

There's something lumpy under my jaw. It might be some sort of congestion in my half-wisdom tooth. It's not come out fully but there's a pocket in my gum where the tooth is still buried and sometimes food gets trapped there and the toothbrush can't reach it. That means, occasionally I live with a sore gum. The lump is probably an expression of some congestion thanks to my body trying to deal with that nastiness.

This morning, I woke up with aches on my shoulder and arms. I decided not to swim even though it was nice out and went back to bed. It didn't help that there's construction happening in the building so my morning lie-in was not so restful. I went to another part of the building to get away from the noise, enjoy some air conditioning and read but found myself falling asleep, repeatedly.

That's when I decided another tactic was in order. The said tactic was watching a Korean drama, which led to the fried chicken order.

Heart-wise, I'm feeling content. My mind is on my work. Since I've not done any for the past week, it's starting to protest a little.

What has taking turmeric three days in a row done so far? I'm not sure yet, but I am noticing that I'm no longer aching. I can't attribute this quick repair to turmeric supplements, though, because it's been happening since Sunday, which happens to be the day before I started this 21-day turmeric experiment.

[Read about Day 2 here]

On a different note, a friend suggested I ate raw garlic. I don't mind raw garlic at all. It makes a lovely addition in salads (I like it chopped tiny and, when roasted, I could eat cloves at a time) but I will probably start adding raw garlic later on. After figuring out what datapoints to focus on probably.

I've also been toying with the idea of a liver detox (doctors found mine to be active - too many enzymes detected both during this and last years' medical checks). For that, it would involve granny smith apples, olive oil and lemon. I'll write a separate piece about that.

Too many experiments all at once is probably the least scientific thing to do. Still, I'm going to continue observing myself, physically, emotionally and mentally and look inward (mostly through body scans) to see if what I observe can be attributed to the powers of turmeric or otherwise.

Speaking of body scan, let me do one now. It takes one to two minutes.

It feels like the turmeric is affecting the skin. Fair enough. The skin is the human body's largest organ. The other place of interest is around the hips, particularly acetabulum, which is a cup-like socket where the femur hangs from. Interesting. I asked my body if the turmeric will help with the tooth-gum/jaw problem but only got 'drink more water' as an answer.

Duly noted.

[Read about Day 4 here]