curcumin
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curcumin is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 24, 2021 and December 06, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “posted this meta-analysis of curcumin, a common spice and oft-mooted panacea”; “a course of curcumin costs about $10 and is harmless”; “curcumin (a harmless-when-sourced-correctly spice, six unreliable studies have shown it treats COVID)“. It most often appears alongside COVID, ivermectin, melatonin.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 24, 2021
- Last seen: December 06, 2021
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- COVID (2 shared issues)
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- ivermectin (2 shared issues)
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- melatonin (2 shared issues)
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- Vitamin D (2 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- Alexandros Marinos (1 shared issues)
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- Algernon’s Law (1 shared issues)
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- Book Review Contest (1 shared issues)
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- David Chapman (1 shared issues)
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- depression (1 shared issues)
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- fluvoxamine (1 shared issues)
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- hydroxychloroquine (1 shared issues)
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We can go further. The same people behind ivmmeta.com have posted this “meta-analysis” of curcumin, a common spice and oft-mooted panacea:
(source) I’m going to guess it’s not true, because I’ve become pretty critical of these people’s methodology since doing the ivermectin review. Also, curcumin is a PAIN (pan-assay interference compound, ie a substance with weird chemical properties that make every test seem positive, so if you do chemical tests to see whether it activates eg coronavirus-fighting immune cells, it will always say yes). This means people are always publishing exciting papers about it and alternative medicine people are always getting really enthusiastic about it and suggesting it as the cure for everything (eg depression).
I’m going to guess it’s not true, because I’ve become pretty critical of these people’s methodology since doing the ivermectin review. Also, curcumin is a PAIN (pan-assay interference compound, ie a substance with weird chemical properties that make every test seem positive, so if you do chemical tests to see whether it activates eg coronavirus-fighting immune cells, it will always say yes). This means people are always publishing exciting papers about it and alternative medicine people are always getting really enthusiastic about it and suggesting it as the cure for everything (eg depression).
Inline links: pan-assay interference compound, depression
2: Some good discussion on my Pascalian Medicine post, see especially David Chapman’s tweets and Jay Daigle’s blog. But I do feel like some the responses flirt with assuming everything has the most convenient possible value to fit a morality tale. Suppose someone you love gets COVID, and you have the option to either recommend or disrecommend that they take a cocktail of melatonin (a harmless sleep supplement, I take it every night, eight unreliable studies have shown it treats COVID), curcumin (a harmless-when-sourced-correctly spice, six unreliable studies have shown it treats COVID) and Vitamin D (a harmless vitamin, twelve unreliable studies have shown it treats COVID). What do you do, here, in the real world? I’m honestly not sure, and I think my discomfort with this question is a lot more interesting than some too-pat fable about The Rationalist Who Thought The Real World Was Exactly Like A Casino.