[hammock]

It’s more of a meta analysis in my mind of all the different studies and anecdotes I’ve osmoted over the years. As someone else said earlier, there aren’t great and clear individual studies because there isn’t any money in it.

For dosing curcumin, you can try juicing a quarter inch of turmeric root a day and starting there, I have seen that knock out a lot of things within a short number of days

[michaelmrose]

That isn't what a meta analysis is. I'm not trying to be cruel but people know all sorts of things that aren't true based on insufficient evidence and weak correlation. I did this thing and got that result is extremely powerful for an individual but without controlling for other factors its hard to know if they are assigning credit to an irrelevant factor or one that was more specific to their situation and not generalizable.

[objetovoador]

> That isn't what a meta analysis is. I'm not trying to be cruel[...]

That's why he didn't call it a meta-analysis but instead said "It’s more of a meta analysis in my mind of all the different studies and anecdotes I’ve osmoted over the years"

It'd be one thing if he said all those things as some sort of scientific fact, but he very clearly qualified his statements as hypothetical conclusions informed by surveying literature, reading developments and other things.

By saying "I'm not trying to be cruel" you seem to be at least aware that you're being pretty censorious. It seems misplaced to me.

[michaelmrose]

You want me to call a spade a spade. Meta analysis is an actual term of art in the sciences. People sharing folk wisdom about diet is mostly malarkey of between zero and dubious value spoken in a confident tone it doesn't deserve.

[gardenfelder]

Best to use ground black pepper when you use turmeric: that increases the bioavailability of the curcumin

[ajb]

I read (I think in a hn comment a while back, that the reason black pepper increases the bio availability of Turmeric is that it broadly increases the bioavailability of everything in your gut at the time. Which is probably not what you want.

(Will now go and look for the comment and edit here if I find it)