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Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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This is what happens when people can’t get the healthcare that they need, and when Congress deregulates supplements.
No, in this case it's literally just an overdose of something that is otherwise very beneficial. Even if we had better access to healthcare, things like systemic inflammation have a lot to do with lifestyle, and that's not something doctors can give people.
And we have “wellness” influencers convincing you all you need is random supplements and to eat healthy and “brain retraining” and you’ll feel great TM.
i dont think thats the only reason, some people believe in pseudoscience more readily than actual medicine. supplements have always been unregulated for decades.
Please don't dismiss supplement users as pseudoscience fanatics.
You have no idea what it's like to live with a chronic illness, with no cure, and no treatment to eliminate the pain and suffering.
People like you harbor misconceptions about modern medicine as an infallible cure-all that isn't riddled with systemic neglect for women, PoC, the uninsured, and chronically ill people.
I take 8 supplements and 7 prescription medications a day. It fucking sucks to have to down 15 pills at night and another 7 in the morning. The only reason why I do is because those supplements are one of very few things that give a modicum of relief to the unending nightmare of pain.
And please don't start with the 'well ahktually studies shows that it doesn't work and it's just placebo.' Please don't decide for us how our own body feels. You cannot disprove our own symptoms to us, not especially when modern medicine has neglected chronic and autoimmune conditions for so long. Because these conditions primarily affect women, and women have not been treated as reliable witnesses to their own bodies, many chronic illnesses haven't even been accepted as 'real' conditions until the last few decades.
So please stop with the psuedoscience accusations. Doctors and researchers have no fucks to give about chronically ill patients, and we are left to trial and error every over the counter supplement we can do we don't kill ourselves from going insane with untreated pain and suffering.
Thank you, I wish more people would get this. Access to healthcare is privilege, and full of it's own problems. Also, everyone crying pseudoscience in this thread is just flat out wrong in this case - turmeric is one of the most heavily studied supplements these days, and has been shown to be an effective anti-inflammatory and beneficial for autoimmune diseases, which is exactly what was claimed by the Instagram doctor referenced in the article.
I left a comment elsewhere in this post, full of studies on the subject.
Pseudoscience is correct, as they are replicating the look of something scientific without the substance.
Feel free to try whatever you think helps you. Don't complain when people correctly point out that there is no evidence to suggest it will, or that it's even safe for you.
Are you sure about that? You should really do some fact-checking before boldly claiming something is pseudoscience.
Damn you really felt called out, huh?
If you're not disabled or chronically ill, please sit down and listen to people who are. Lack of 'medical evidence' does not constitute a lack of medical effectiveness. The same way that a lack of diagnosis due to medical neglect does not constitute a lack of symptoms.
THC and CBD has always been used by chronically ill people, who were dismissed as drug addicts for using 'medically unsubstantiated' herbs to treat their pain. Just because research on marijuana is finally being conducted in recent times and it is being validated as a form of treatment, it doesn't mean that it only suddenly became effective. It always has been. The only thing that has changed is public perception of it.
It's easy for able bodied people to point at chronically ill people and claim that everything they do is a hoax or just placebo when they know nothing about how chronic illness works. Listen to them, and treat them as reliable witnesses to their own body.
A medical paper doesn't dictate the reality of how supplement affects each patient individually. Every person's biochemistry is unique. It's especially problematic when modern medicine is rife with systemic bias against certain groups of people. Ask doctors over the age of 60 and ask doctors who recently graduated if they think fibromyalgia is a real disease. It's disgusting how older doctors don't even think it's a real condition and that patients are just 'faking it'.
People wouldn't believe in pseudoscience so much if they could just go to the hospital without hesitation or worry about the costs.
In Germany this isn't true. The pseudoscience is thriving and in part supplemented by public health care. Homeopathy was a part of the anti-science campaign of the nazis and is still practised.
You can probably check this by looking at how often this kind of thing happens in:
a) Countries with a normal free-to-use national health system
b) America
As someone that has lived in both, I am sad to report that there isn't much difference.
Or they think that something you use by the teaspoon in cooking is inherently safe when used daily.
To add another layer to that, even if you believe in pseudoscience you should also have the basic understanding that absolutely anything and everything can be harmful if you exceed the appropriate dose. I can't understand why most people don't understand this
But you are still using "logic" there, while she was using "trust", in the perceived authority source of a combination of "doctor" + "government" (they wouldn't allow selling of something that could be dangerous).
People can die of drinking too much water, I see your point but I die on my hill
As too did she.
Misinformation is dangerous. Disinformation even more so.
Capitalism sometimes kill, literally.