You should read the article in full, and keep an eye on the listed symptoms. Your dose does sound pretty high, but it also sounds like some people conditionally react to turmeric worse than others do.

I’ve read elsewhere that turmeric also reduces the absorption of some minerals. So I have it with my tea, as opposed to in my food.

Are you sure about that? You should really do some fact-checking before boldly claiming something is pseudoscience.

Thank you, I wish more people would get this. Access to healthcare is privilege, and full of it’s own problems. Also, everyone crying pseudoscience in this thread is just flat out wrong in this case - turmeric is one of the most heavily studied supplements these days, and has been shown to be an effective anti-inflammatory and beneficial for autoimmune diseases, which is exactly what was claimed by the Instagram doctor referenced in the article.

I left a comment elsewhere in this post, full of studies on the subject.

No, in this case it’s literally just an overdose of something that is otherwise very beneficial. Even if we had better access to healthcare, things like systemic inflammation have a lot to do with lifestyle, and that’s not something doctors can give people.

Commenters making blanket statements about quackery, and the dangers of the unregulated supplement industry - okay, yes, those are issues. But in this context, c’mon, Pubmed is right there. Turmeric is effective for exactly the things this social media doctor claimed it is, and a little more at that. I take half a teaspoon of the powder in my morning tea, and along with other lifestyle interventions I made a handful of years ago, the fairly significant chronic joint pain I used to experience has been a thing of the past.

This is an overdose story, nothing more.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30970601/

“The current study aimed to provide a comprehensive bibliometric overview of the literature on curcumin, complementing the previous reviews and meta-analyses on its potential health benefits. (…) The literature mainly focused on curcumin’s effects against cancer, inflammation, and oxidative stress. Cancer types most frequently investigated were breast, colon, colorectal, pancreatic, and prostate cancers.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32075287/

“The use of curcumin reduces the subjective perception of the intensity of muscle pain; reduces muscle damage through the decrease of creatine kinase (CK); increases muscle performance; has an anti-inflammatory effect by modulating the pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-8; and may have a slight antioxidant effect. In summary, the administration of curcumin at a dose between 150-1500 mg/day before and during exercise, and up until 72 h’ post-exercise, improved performance by reducing EIMD and modulating the inflammation caused by physical activity. In addition, humans appear to be able to tolerate high doses of curcumin without significant side-effects.”

Not so sure about the above line though, lol.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36898635/

“Curcumin supplementation significantly reduces anthropometric indices, and bioavailability-enhanced formulas are preferred. Augmenting curcumin supplement with lifestyle modification should be an option for weight reduction.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35979355/

“Curcumin and Curcuma longa Extract had good clinical efficacy in the treatment of Psoriasis, UC and RA, so Curcumin and Curcuma longa Extract could be used in the treatment of the above diseases in the future. The results of Meta-analysis showed that Curcumin and Curcuma longa Extract did not show efficacy in the treatment of oral lichen planus, while Takayasu arteritis, SLE, MS, AS, BD and CD did not report sufficient clinical data for meta-analysis. Therefore, large-sample, multi-center clinical trials are still needed for revision or validation.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36804260/

“We observed that turmeric/curcumin supplementation significantly reduces levels of inflammatory markers (…) Also, turmeric/curcumin supplementation significantly improved anti-oxidant activity (…) It seems that turmeric/curcumin supplementation might be used as a viable intervention for improving inflammatory/oxidative status of individuals.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37325651/

“Curcumin is beneficial for rheumatoid arthritis treatment. Inflammation levels and clinical symptoms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis can be improved by curcumin supplementation. Large sample randomized controlled trials on the effects of curcumin on patients with rheumatoid arthritis are needed in the future.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34012421/

“The results showed that curcumin’s anti-diabetic activity might be due to its capacity to suppress oxidative stress and inflammatory process. Also, it significantly reduces fasting blood glucose, glycated hemoglobin, and body mass index. Nanocurcumin is also associated with a significant reduction in triglycerides, VLDL-c, total cholesterol, LDL-c, HDL-c, serum C reactive protein, and plasma malonaldehyde. Therefore, it can be considered in the therapeutic approach of patients with DM.”

Generally I agree, and am so deep in the habit of not making my bed that it’s never a thought in my mind. That said, if you or someone you might be sharing the room with is experiencing any kind of hard emotional state and feeling overstimulated, then making the bed as well as other general cleanup can make the space less noisy. In that context it can be therapeutic.

Yeah to be fair I don’t use it either. These days I tend to just look for editors with good markdown support.

There what is? Their comment gives virtually zero indication of what they actually believe or stand for, apart from a vague self-identification as “LibSoc/Anarchist”; and you’re already going for the jugular.

Me.

I love orgmode to a point, but when I tried to learn how to do the more complex stuff, that syntax began to make my eyes bleed.

Emacs is available in Android now, right on F-Droid.

I don’t have plant-based grease, because I don’t eat foods high in saturated fats plant-based or not, and I almost never cook with oil (except for rare occasions like the popcorn with olive oil I had last night).

What exactly is unhinged and overdone about my comments?

It’s a little weird that anyone still thinks a joke that was overdone 30 years ago, would do anything other than make you sound unhinged today. “Tell me not to do a thing that causes suffering, will you? Well what if I cause even more suffering then?!”

I dunno, cartoon villain isn’t a good look in real life.

I hate cars and trucks so much.

Yeah, tough call. It’s all just fucked.

Lol, nobody is eating candy for the calcium, and there are better sources.

It’s less macabre than that.

“Ferdman found that one single McDonald’s patty can contain the meat of up to a shocking 100 cows.”

https://www.tastingtable.com/863664/the-unexpected-number-of-cows-a-single-burgers-meat-could-come-from/

Right, and I’m just saying why expend so much energy on a Gordian knot, when there’s a much more effective, reasonable way to cut right through it? The puzzle is essentially saying, “how can I do a thing that is like the thing I’m trying to avoid doing.” Just do the thing! 😅

“I am heartbroken.”

Omg what happened, why are you heartbroken?