Controversial Thoughts: Turmeric is BS!

Paul Saladino MD podcast

Paul Saladino, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

First principles: Plants don't want their roots, stems, leaves, and seeds (seeds, nuts, grains and legumes) to be eaten- and they've clearly evolved defense mechanisms to dissuade consumption of these parts. (Animals don't want to be eaten either but they can run away, bite, kick, etc.) Why do we assume that plant leaves like kale or plant roots like turmeric are good for us? I'm not convinced, and in this video I go deep down the turmeric rabbit hole to tell you why I think it's BS. If you want to eat a little every once in a while it's probably not a big deal, but daily consumption or mega-dosing can be potentially harmful IMO. #theremembering #animalbased

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0:00.0	This is bullshit.
0:04.3	For those of you who are listening to this podcast and not watching the video, I'm holding
0:08.7	in my hand some turmeric with the ingredient that is often touted as a veritable panacea
0:16.1	curcumin.
0:17.1	And in this video, I'm going to tell you why this is absolute bullshit.
0:21.5	What's the mainstream nutritional thinking is that I believe it makes incorrect assumptions
0:29.2	and starts from a place of incorrect bias.
0:32.3	What I mean by this is that the first principles through which I am going to approach an nutritional
0:37.5	question like this regarding a root like turmeric is does the plant want to be eaten?
0:44.1	And the answer is invariably no.
0:47.0	And in response to this, people often say, well, animals don't want to be eaten either.
0:51.3	And to that, I have frequently answered, yes, animals don't want to be eaten, but they
0:55.1	can run away, kick or bite you or gore you.
0:59.0	And they have developed defense chemicals in the form of teeth and hooves and legs,
1:02.8	which are swift plants do not have motility generally speaking or mobility as a defense
1:08.5	mechanism.
1:09.5	They generally do not have teeth though some of them have spines.
1:11.9	What they do have are defense chemicals.
1:14.2	And so when we assume that turmeric is good for us because everyone says it is and we
1:19.5	don't actually look at the data.
1:21.7	I think we are making a faulty assumption that is harmful to humans.
1:26.1	So I approach this nutritional thinking a little bit differently than most people.
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