[ExI] Turmeric health claims fraudulent

[William Flynn Wallace]

All I know is that I took naproxen and turmeric for osteoarthritis, and got
alarmed at the data on heart attacks and naproxen, so I stopped it.  I take
two turmerics a day and have no hip or shoulder pain.  (I have seen my
osteoarthritis on Xray, so it's no placebo).  My daughter takes it for knee
pain and it works for her.  I don't think all the good data comes from one
source.

The People's Pharmacy recommends it and they have a long history of good
calls.  A druggist and a person with a doctorate in physiology run it.

Big Pharm won't mess with it because they can't make any money from it.  Of
course they are going to disparage it.

bill w

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 11:54 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> I just wanted to pass on a bit of information that seems to be
> under-reported by the media. The supposed health benefits of turmeric
> are apparently a complete sham. The main proponent of the use of
> turmeric/curcumin as a health supplement was a biochemist at M.D.
> Anderson named Bharat B. Aggarwal. He has since had 28(!) of his
> research studies retracted for falsifying and reusing data. After
> years of trying to reproduce his research, drug companies have
> declared curcumin a false lead and they are not going to waste any
> more of their money on it.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Aggarwal
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
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