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[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If you eat enough tumeric, would you turn yellow? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

maybe if it causes liver failure, but it won't even get into blood so unlikely

if you get around that, then yeah liver failure cases happened

Importantly, means of increasing the bioavailability of curcumin were developed using piperine (black pepper) or nanoparticle delivery methods to increase absorption. These high bioavailability forms of turmeric were subsequently linked to several cases of liver injury and mentioned as a possible cause of outbreaks of acute hepatitis with jaundice in Italy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK548561/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36252717/

[โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Don't let your dreams be memes.

Calm down, Roark Junior...