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by JohnJamesRambo 2900 days ago
Curcumin is one of those compounds that does everything, that's not necessarily a good thing, it is a hit in every assay. When you google compounds and they are antifungal, antidiabetic, antibacterial, anticancer, etc., it isn't a reason to get excited, they have no specificity.

Source: I work in natural products chemistry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-assay_interference_compoun...

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/12/cur...

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I also hate the term anticancer which gets tossed around a lot. Everything that is toxic to human cells is anticancer which is what chemotherapy does. If we found a substance that wasn't toxic to normal cells and killed cancer cells, we'd have a safe cure for cancer.
Amazing health breakthrough! Our product Nature Farms Pure Organic Battery Acid kills one hundred percent of cancer cells in lab tests!
Pure organic is great, but I won't use batteries unless they are vegan.