Talk:Curcumin

Wiki Education assignment: Endocrinology

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 January 2025 and 21 March 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ebents (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Vaishsrinivasan.

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Contradiction

"curcumin is an unstable, reactive, non-bioavailable compound and, therefore, a highly improbable lead"

It says this right after saying

"As a component of turmeric, curcumin may interact with prescription drugs and dietary supplements. In high amounts, it may be unsafe for women during pregnancy. It may cause side effects, such as nausea, diarrhea, hives, or dizziness"

If it is non-bioavailable, it couldn't do these things. 73.10.238.72 (talk) 04:09, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

There isn't a contradiction when the fate of ingested curcumin is considered:

During digestion, curcumin would be degraded from the parent polyphenol into smaller constituents having different distribution and rates of excretion, i.e., an unstable, improbable lead compound with undefinable bioavailability. See further discussion.

The same curcumin metabolites may have a concentration-dependent interaction with drugs and supplements, as occurs with grapefruit. Zefr (talk) 06:22, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Lots of missing information

This reads like there are no medical effects, yet many papers can be found with a simple Google scholar search that document medical effects - many focusing on anti inflammatory effects. Thus this article is misleading via omission and tone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-30353-93 (talk) 06:47, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Inside blood, curcumin decays very fast, so it is highly unlikely that it has medical effects. You can kill cancer cells with a flamethrower, it does not mean that's a "medical effect". tgeorgescu (talk) 06:58, 21 May 2026 (UTC)