Warm Up with Coconut Curry
This tasty dish makes for the perfect healthy comfort meal. Turmeric, which is one of the main ingredients in curry, is rich in curcumin, which has been shown to have anti-carcinogenic, anti-inflammatory and…
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Turmeric
Joint pain relief (early evidence).
Some good studies
- You need a day
- Not set
- Most pills have
- 120 mg
- Safe max a day
- Not set
- Careful studies
- 241 21 in 2025, 8 in 2015
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Drag to turn · 27 heavy atoms · PubChem CID 969516
Curcumin. Drag to turn it.
What the research says
The short version
Meta-analyses of oral turmeric or curcumin for knee osteoarthritis are initially positive, but higher quality trials are needed. NIH says it is too soon to say if turmeric helps any condition.
Highly bioavailable curcumin formulations may harm the liver.
About "most pills": Doses of curcumin or Curcuma longa extract in a 2022 arthritis meta-analysis ranged from 120 to 1,500 mg a day for 4 to 36 weeks; no single typical label dose could be verified.
Sources: nccih.nih.gov, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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