> The Easiest Grift In America Is The Supplement Grift. So Many Stupid Fuqing Morons - Including Many On CI - Buy Into This Junk Science.

Ray Kurzweil made a bundle pushing that snake oil!

The medical industrial complex is not benefited by self medication. So even if something is beneficial, if they aren't making money on it, they will discourage it's use.
If it's not in the formulary, and they don't control it, they will not accept supplements of any kind as beneficial. It has little to do with the effectiveness of any OTC supplement.

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The medical industrial complex is not benefited by self medication. So even if something is beneficial, if they aren't making money on it, they will discourage it's use.
If it's not in the formulary, and they don't control it, they will not accept supplements of any kind as beneficial. It has little to do with the effectiveness of any OTC supplement.

You've been grifted.

Spanky wrote:

Your doctor is a moron.

No.  The turmeric was to reduce Motrin use.
8+ miles on the McCormick Place floor was locking my ankles the following morning.
Instead of Motrin 800s, Turmeric works as a body wide anti-inflammatory.

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No.  The turmeric was to reduce Motrin use.
8+ miles on the McCormick Place floor was locking my ankles the following morning.
Instead of Motrin 800s, Turmeric works as a body wide anti-inflammatory.

You are experiencing a placebo effect.

Turmeric has shown POSSIBLE anti-inflammatory properties. But they are LONG TERM properties after taking it for weeks or months and it is at a systemic level not in any particular part of the body.

Ibuprofen has shown ABSOLUTE anti-inflammatory properties. And it works in ACUTE situations.

If you knees hurt today and you take turmeric tonight, your knees CAN NOT POSSIBLY feel better tomorrow.

Spanky wrote:

You are experiencing a placebo effect.

Turmeric has shown POSSIBLE anti-inflammatory properties. But they are LONG TERM properties after taking it for weeks or months and it is at a systemic level not in any particular part of the body.

Ibuprofen has shown ABSOLUTE anti-inflammatory properties. And it works in ACUTE situations.

If you knees hurt today and you take turmeric tonight, your knees CAN NOT POSSIBLY feel better tomorrow.

Daily Turmeric (2 caps) & I haven't needed Motrin in years. 
Works for me.
If Turmeric reduces heart / lung inflammation, even better.

Spanky wrote:

You've been grifted.

There are supplements that are junk science, but many are beneficial.

I do my research based on government peer reviewed studies. Again, of it's not in the plan they will discourage use.

They are not in the business of curing your ills, rather treating them for profit perpetually.

I take COQ10 every day for so many years I didn’t remember why I started. Something about it being good for the heart, or cell energy or some nonsense (?)

I stopped taking them and after a week or so it was absolutely horrible. Weakness & pain & skin issues.
Now I’ll stay on that shyt for life.

Vitimins and things like Tumeric may help a little - but not when your diet consists of Taco Bell and Dunkin Donuts and your exercise routine is dropping logs in the shower and heel stomping them down the drain.

I agree that multivitamins are bullshyt, just take the specific ones you need based on bloodwork.

Every multivitamin has folic acid which is poison for those of us with the MTHFR gene mutation (@ 40% of the population).

I avoid multivitamins and “enriched” bread products forced to contain folic acid.

All the so-called gluten allergies to American pasta, bread, baked goods, cereal etc are really bad reactions to folic acid, which the govt ordered added to flour in the US in 1996.

Spanky wrote:

You are experiencing a placebo effect.

Turmeric has shown POSSIBLE anti-inflammatory properties. But they are LONG TERM properties after taking it for weeks or months and it is at a systemic level not in any particular part of the body.

Ibuprofen has shown ABSOLUTE anti-inflammatory properties. And it works in ACUTE situations.

If you knees hurt today and you take turmeric tonight, your knees CAN NOT POSSIBLY feel better tomorrow.

Have you ever seen an inflamed Indian?  Turmeric must be responsible.

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There are supplements that are junk science, but many are beneficial.

I do my research based on government peer reviewed studies. Again, of it's not in the plan they will discourage use.

They are not in the business of curing your ills, rather treating them for profit perpetually.

You aren't qualified to research such subjects.