4 x 30 Caps of Curcumin $38.05 AUD Delivered @ iHerb

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cristobaljames on 08/02/2017 - 23:55 au.iherb.com (134 clicks)
Last edited 10/02/2017 - 04:55 by 1 other user

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Credit should go to JSQUARED for the initial post alerting us to the fact there is a current 10% discount on all products @ iHerb.

This little deal deserved a post of its own rather then get lost in the comments.

Ok so for a large number of us that already use Curcumin, this deal is pretty sweet as it also includes free shipping when you purchase four (4) of the 30 capsule bottles. Its worth noting that purchasing the larger 120 capsule bottle works out less than a couple dollars cheaper though I personally prefer the convenience of having four smaller ones.

Produced by California Gold Nutrition (which I believe to be an iHerb in-house brand) each capsule contains a respectable 500mg with the actual Curcuminoids stated at 95% equivalent to 475mg. In addition to the above, each capsule contains a further 5mg of black pepper extract (BioPerine) for increased absorption.

Individually or included in your order the single bottle is already a great price though having the additional discount and free shipping here to Australia sweetens the deal!

Those of us that already use Curcumin know very well the price it attracts here and the benefits of a suitable dose. I was skeptical at first even trying what would appear to be a common herb used in Indian cooking though for a little extra on my previous order I added one in. Locally it is taxed much higher hence why I previously couldn't justify making the purchase.

For those of you with an open mind for trying a new supplement to help with inflammation, I'd highly recommend you do your research before making a purchase and examine.com is a good place to start; https://examine.com/supplements/curcumin/

I hope this post was informative and helps someone like me save a little coin whilst the deal is still active :)

Let me make this crystal clear for those who have a phobia or dislike with supplements that this post was and is relevant to people like myself that deal with inflammation from hard training and injury. I'd much rather give a $10 bottle a go and make an informed decision then take some pharmaceutical garbage, especially if it works. Obviously if it doesn't work, don't waste your time or your valuable coin!

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  Cluster on 09/02/2017 - 00:06

  +6

  "For those haters or non-believers please switch your negative comments to another channel."

  Generally speaking it's not a good way to introduce a product by declaring anyone who says it doesn't work as advertised to be a "hater". It makes you look highly defensive and combative from the start. Not a good look.

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    cristobaljames on 09/02/2017 - 00:17

    -6

    This post is predominantly for those of us that already use it and know it works.

    Supplements are a very touchy topic on here on OzB so I'd rather put it out there straight away, interpret it as you wish :)

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      BrainSand on 09/02/2017 - 00:55

      +5

      negging you and the post because any quick google search shows that this product is useless. There is no other way to interpret it other than, it has very poor bioavailable and thus a poor efficacy. To put in other terms, your body fails to absorb the product at a high enough dose for it to have any effect in the body. Studies also indicate is has no therapeutic uses.

      supplements are not a touchy subject. there are educated people, and the naive, stubborn and quite frankly stupid.

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        llama on 09/02/2017 - 01:23

        +5

        supplements are not a touchy subject. there are educated people, and the naive, stubborn and quite frankly stupid.

        Some of the largest companies religions are based on telling a good story to those kinds of people.

        Don't knock it… there is lots of money to be made.

        Facts don't come into it - just gotta make people believe :-)

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        cristobaljames on 09/02/2017 - 01:49

        -8

        Case in point with a comment like that lol

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      Mechz on 09/02/2017 - 10:12

      You can't actually know it works. You believe it works, much like some believe in the flying spaghetti monster is their god.

      Science proves it doesn't work. End of story.

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    terrys on 09/02/2017 - 08:22

    +3

    For those targeting the gullible, the desperate and others at a most vulnerable time of life to hawk fake nostrums and la-la land 'alternative medicines' at incredibly outrageous mark-up using derisibley fake weasel terms to avoid the prosecution they deserve, there are other fora and countries not quite as well served with people able to call your utter bullshit for what it is.

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      cristobaljames on 09/02/2017 - 10:06

      -7

      That was hilarious. Did you type that all out between tokes?

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        terrys on 10/02/2017 - 08:04

        Tokes? I powder it up, add 90% chalk and make tabsules, it's "Natures Way". When I really want to get ripped, I dissolve it in water, tap it a few times, then ensure that none of the original THC is present so it doesn't interfere with the vibes.
        Curcurmin is too dangerous to so that with tho, otherwise my hair and nails may stop growing, so I merely use tumeric.

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  gummibear on 09/02/2017 - 00:48

  +4

  One of the greatest benefits of this site is the varying opinions people share.
  Many times I have been ready to buy, when I read great discussion explaining pros and cons of a product and realize I was about to make a purchasing mistake.

  With that in mind I would like to put up a times.com article about a very recent review on curcumin http://time.com/4633558/turmeric-curcumin-inflammation-spice…

  "One big problem, the new report notes, is that curcumin is not easily absorbed by the body. And despite the thousands of research papers published on turmeric, the reviewers were unable to find any double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials (the gold-standard of medical research) to support its myriad health claims.

  Many studies also involved conflicts of interest, Walters says—like researchers who owned supplement companies and could benefit from sales of curcumin extract. Overall, the research casts doubt on curcumin's usefulness as a stand-alone supplement and its potential for future drug discoveries."

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    cristobaljames on 09/02/2017 - 02:01

    -4

    Neither is creatine but that didn't stop it becoming the most commonly used supplement worldwide and for good reason, it works.

    People should be subjective when it comes to spending their hard earned money, I know I am, but if something works you stick with it :)

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      Diji1 on 09/02/2017 - 02:23

      -4

      Creatine doesn't work.

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        cybergenX on 09/02/2017 - 02:27

        +2

        do you even lift bro

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        Scab on 09/02/2017 - 06:26

        +3

        @cybergenX:

        I'm huge.

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      matrix83 on 09/02/2017 - 07:02

      +3

      Creatine has a tonne of research papers behind it.

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        llama on 09/02/2017 - 08:28

        …and 999kg said it was useless?

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      simulacrum on 09/02/2017 - 09:37

      +2

      Neither is creatine but that didn't stop it becoming the most commonly used supplement worldwide and for good reason, it works.

      creatine is backed by enormous amounts of studies. That is the ONLY way to know if something works, rather than knowing that it feels like it works. There's lots of good data to demonstrate the effects of creatine supplementation.

      People should be subjective when it comes to spending their hard earned money,

      No.. people should be OBjective. Subjective experience is subject to cognitive bias. It's why people continued to go to doctors that did nothing but bled them or put leaches on them, or drilled holes in their skulls. To many of the patients it felt like it worked. It was only the scientific method that said anecdotal (subjective) experience is worthless to determining if something works. The only way to know if something works is to conduct double blind controlled trials and draw conclusions based on objective measurements.

      I know I am, but if something works you stick with it :)

      what you're really saying is

      if something feels like it works to you you stick with it.

      That is the natural common sense approach until you study the scientific method and understand that your own subjective common sense experience is worthless when assessing the efficacy of a treatment.

      Think about a therapy or practice that you think is a scam.. reiki, homeopathy, shamanism etc..
      There are people who believe in these things and pay lots of money for sugar pills or for people towave their hands over their bodies. The reason they keep going back and paying money for this nonsense. WHY? because to them it feels like "it works" so they "stick with it". In reality none of these treatments are actually having any objectively measurable effect… the effect is purely psychological.

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        cristobaljames on 09/02/2017 - 10:09

        -2

        Read examine.com and save your time making opinions on something you obviously never tried/needed for an injury that could only be managed by prescription medicine.

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  [Deactivated] on 09/02/2017 - 00:58

  +2

  $38 for snake oil…..

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    kahn on 09/02/2017 - 10:12

    +1

    Maybe post as a separate bargain?

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  xuqi on 09/02/2017 - 02:30

  +1

  You don't need pills of this this stuff. Nothing to gain from high dosing yourself on such snake oil.

  Just add it to your cooking as they have been doing in certain parts of the world for 1000's of years.

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  Rayve on 09/02/2017 - 02:48

  +3

  Your anecdote on the 'benefits of a suitable dose' are as good as a 98 year old saying 'I smoked 32 packs a day for 97 years and it didn't hurt me!' - useless and unproven. The time to believe something is when it has been demonstrated and not before. This therefore falls into the category of products making a claim that is not justified and therefore gets a negative from me.

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    xuqi on 09/02/2017 - 02:51

    +2

    That's why they rely on, gullible fools with money to waste.

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    cristobaljames on 09/02/2017 - 03:25

    -5

    Said like a real experts lol

    Read and inform yourselves: https://examine.com/supplements/Curcumin/

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      llama on 09/02/2017 - 08:23

      +2

      Scary

      Caution Notice

      Some test tube studies suggest that high concentration of curcumin can cause DNA damage as well as suppress the immune system

      So it's good that it doesn't get absorbed readily, and the body's natural defences cause the majority of any dose to be shat out. Otherwise, dosing with such a thing it might actually be harmful.

      Also, that self-serving website is absolute rubbish - far too much verbiage and bullshit there, none of which seems scientifically verified. Basically, a Wiki written by the Supplements industry for the plonkers who buy from them.

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        cristobaljames on 09/02/2017 - 10:11

        -1

        Almost anything in excess is toxic for the body so your comment is pointless.

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        llama on 09/02/2017 - 14:33

        +1

        @cristobaljames:

        Almost anything in excess is toxic for the body so your comment is pointless.

        Quite the reverse. Deliberately "Supplementing" your intake = taking something to excess.

        The normal intake of the substance is what your body was designed to function with. When you take more that normal, that is taking EXCESS.

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        cristobaljames on 10/02/2017 - 04:23

        @llama: Riiiiight, as in you are deliberately wasting time with excess nonsense?

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      terrys on 09/02/2017 - 08:30

      +2

      Have you ever heard of 'confirmation bias' sweety? That curcumin produces `results' in vitro isn't validation, many products do. Should isolated curcumin have ever carried over to results in vivo, it would be a medicine. You are touting a 'food supplement' at a price that would get one ample supplies of the food itself with a thinly disguised claim for a therapeutic effect that has not been demonstrated.

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        cristobaljames on 09/02/2017 - 10:14

        Nothing being touted when I have nothing to gain other than the entertainment of responding to comments from people who have never needed to try it before.

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        [Deactivated] on 09/02/2017 - 13:12

        @cristobaljames:

        But it is, you keep trying to argue & refute any evidence provided that overwhelmingly suggests the product you are promoting has very little to no efficacy at all.

        IF this was a silver bullet for cancer/whatever, it would be in the mainstream, or would have been bought up and trademarked by big pharma.

        You're free to consume whatever you want for whatever reason, but trying to argue against literally 1000s of peer reviewed papers that conclude more or less the same thing is only going to make you look like a thick-headed moron.

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        cristobaljames on 10/02/2017 - 04:26

        @Sir Casm: Hey dude, I take it for inflammation and its effective for my needs, whatever other claims you or others make it over is a waste of time.

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        simulacrum on 10/02/2017 - 10:58

        @cristobaljames:

        science: there's no good data to say it works.
        cristobaljames: you've never tried it so you can't say it works
        science: The only way anyone can know it works and eliminate confirmation bias is with objectively measured, carefully controlled, double-blind trials
        cristobaljames: but you've never tried it!
        science: Sigh… Anecdote and personal experience are not data and don't rule out biases and cognitive errors such as the placebo effect. In fact personal experience, even your own experience, is the worst possible way to test whether something works or not.
        cristobaljames: But you've never tried it!
        science: Are you even listening? I just told you that even if i did try it… and even if to me it felt like it worked really well.. that would be personal experience.. which we know is unreliable. Even if i felt it worked, I wouldn't be able to know if it was just the placebo effect.
        cristobaljames: But you've never tried it!
        science:…..

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      gummibear on 09/02/2017 - 08:43

      +2

      The information examine.com choose to present needs to be looked at cautiously as the site is an online supplements store with a vested interest in making things look good.

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        llama on 09/02/2017 - 14:36

        The information examine.com choose to present needs to be looked at cautiously

        I think you are being exceptionally kind there. The information presented on that site should be ignored.

        That said, the fact that OP and other choose to quote it as a definitive reference speaks volumes about the gullibility of their target market.

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        cristobaljames on 10/02/2017 - 04:58

        @llama: Its a good place to start and no it aint a store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examine.com

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  shmahoo on 09/02/2017 - 06:18

  +1

  I hope the time is curcumin when education and true facts outweigh outlandish claims and "alternative facts". But in a time of the new American President whingeing that a department store is dropping his daughter's fashion line, why not start a post for a placebo product with "haters gonna hate".
  Unbelievable. Actually, this is now way too believable

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  nawapb on 09/02/2017 - 06:45

  +1

  just eat curry! mostly north Indian types with lots of colour…

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    llama on 09/02/2017 - 08:26

    -1

    Some people would say that the last thing that the world needs is more curry eaters.

    LOL :-D

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      terrys on 09/02/2017 - 08:32

      We need the gas, the wind turbines are using up all the wind.

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  terrys on 09/02/2017 - 08:15

  +1

  Quite a price to make ones piss smell good - especially as many of us can buy the whole plant quite readily at the markets these days…

  "Curcumin, which shows positive results in most drug discovery assays, may be a false lead that medicinal chemists refer to as "pan-assay interference compounds".[18][19] Although curcumin has been assessed in numerous laboratory and clinical studies, it has no medical uses established by well-designed clinical research.[20]

  Two preliminary clinical studies in cancer patients consuming high doses of curcumin (up to 8 grams per day for 3–4 months) showed no toxicity, though some subjects reported mild nausea or diarrhea.[21] Curcumin appears to reduce circulating C-reactive protein in human subjects, although no dose-response relationship was established.[22]

  Cancer studies using curcumin conducted by Bharat Aggarwal, formerly a researcher at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, were deemed fraudulent and subsequently retracted by the publisher"

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    simulacrum on 09/02/2017 - 10:04

    +1

    Don't know how it'll smell.. but at some point in my youth I took a multivitamin supplement that contained turmeric extract and it made my pee neon yellow

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    llama on 09/02/2017 - 14:46

    +1

    Two preliminary clinical studies in cancer patients consuming high doses of curcumin (up to 8 grams per day for 3–4 months) showed no toxicity

    Phew, that's a relief. At least the studies proved that the cancer still killed them, rather than the Curcumin.

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      cristobaljames on 10/02/2017 - 04:37

      Id only recommend it as an alternative to pharmaceuticals for inflammation. Another one off on a tangent

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  Cliche Guevara on 09/02/2017 - 10:42

  +1

  Trust Me I'm A Doctor

  Does turmeric really help protect us from cancer?

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/PSTGKKt3HR08tmK69w7…

  TL;DR - don't waste your money on supplements

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    cristobaljames on 10/02/2017 - 04:30

    Now Docs just happen to conveniently have a broad knowledge and experience with supps! Who even mentioned it has benefits treating cancer in the first place?