[ExI] Turmeric health claims fraudulent

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 9:05 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.

It's funny that you mention getting it via food because looking over
the LEF pages I saw a complaint about their curcumin product given
someone an upset stomach. I wonder if they're were taking it on an
empty stomach or with not enough food and drink to buffer it.

Regards,

Dan