[ExI] Turmeric health claims fraudulent

[Giovanni Santostasi]

The anti-inflamatory role of curcumin has been proven in hundreds of
papers.
Here a review:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664031/

The fact there was a fraudulent researcher among the army of people around
the world experimenting with this substance doesn't make curcumin health
claims fraudulent in general.
The main problem is bio-availability but it can be resolved with mixing
with other compounds.

Giovanni


On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 2:04 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Quoting Bill 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.
>
> Turmeric is still non-toxic so if it is working for you, then keep
> using it. Drug companies have their own sets of biases, and what is
> profitable for them is not always what is best for you. Curcumin does
> seem to work with cells in a petri dish, it just has trouble getting
> out of the digestive tract and getting to where it needs to be in the
> body without getting completely messed up by the liver when eaten.
> Perhaps turmeric works better when used as an ingredient in food than
> when taken in pill form due to the potentiation effects of other
> ingredients.
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
>
>
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