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First, I will say I am a user and proponent of curcumin. But articles like this make me wonder if its as amazing as we all like to think it is.
Deceptive curcumin offers cautionary tale for chemists : Nature News & Comment
Deceptive curcumin offers cautionary tale for chemists : Nature News & Comment
...Scientists have published the most comprehensive critical review yet of curcumin — concluding that there’s no evidence it has any specific therapeutic benefits, despite thousands of research papers and more than 120 clinical trials. The scientists hope that their report will prevent further wasted research and alert the unwary to the possibility that chemicals may often show up as ‘hits’ in drug screens, but be unlikely to yield a drug.