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Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage (arstechnica.com)
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A 57-year-old woman spent six days in the hospital for severe liver damage after taking daily megadoses of the popular herbal supplement, turmeric, which she had seen touted on social media, according to NBC News.

The woman, Katie Mohan, told the outlet that she had seen a doctor on Instagram suggesting it was useful against inflammation and joint pain. So, she began taking turmeric capsules at a dose of 2,250 mg per day. According to the World Health Organization, an acceptable daily dose is up to 3 mg per kilogram of weight per day—for a 150-pound (68 kg) adult, that would be about 204 mg per day. Mohan was taking more than 10 times that amount.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

This is what happens when people can’t get the healthcare that they need, and when Congress deregulates supplements.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (15 children)

i dont think thats the only reason, some people believe in pseudoscience more readily than actual medicine. supplements have always been unregulated for decades.

[–] 0_o7 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

People wouldn't believe in pseudoscience so much if they could just go to the hospital without hesitation or worry about the costs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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.

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