To clarify a bit more, here’s the source that says it might not actually do anything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric#Medical_research and the wording they use isn’t exactly “no evidence”, but instead “no good evidence”.
I think this credible source link summarizes it pretty well. There’s a lot of possible positive outcomes associated with it, much research was rather shallow and inconsistent and more research is needed. There’s also a PubMed summary that sounds far more positive than this, but also explains that it probably won’t help with chronic pain. So the answer is as always: it depends.
Unfortunately this is complicated by the fact that turmeric is perhaps more likely than most spices to have lead contamination as not only is there the usual possibility of contaminated soil there is also a somewhat common practice of using lead chromate to dye it a brighter colour: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/abs/10.1289/isesisee.2018.P02.3490
This is indeed a big problem. I personally recommend getting an organic supplement by a company that subscribes to the GMP standard to minimise the chances of such occurrences but - there’s always a chance of malevolent interference.
To clarify a bit more, here’s the source that says it might not actually do anything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric#Medical_research and the wording they use isn’t exactly “no evidence”, but instead “no good evidence”.
I think this credible source link summarizes it pretty well. There’s a lot of possible positive outcomes associated with it, much research was rather shallow and inconsistent and more research is needed. There’s also a PubMed summary that sounds far more positive than this, but also explains that it probably won’t help with chronic pain. So the answer is as always: it depends.
Unfortunately this is complicated by the fact that turmeric is perhaps more likely than most spices to have lead contamination as not only is there the usual possibility of contaminated soil there is also a somewhat common practice of using lead chromate to dye it a brighter colour: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/abs/10.1289/isesisee.2018.P02.3490
This is indeed a big problem. I personally recommend getting an organic supplement by a company that subscribes to the GMP standard to minimise the chances of such occurrences but - there’s always a chance of malevolent interference.