Originally Posted by
LetsGo
Turmeric is powerful, it has incredible effects in reducing colon polyps and even helping fight colon cancer. (NutritionFacts.org has info on turmeric and cancer.) However, it’s also a 5AR inhibitor, to some extent.
The studies on food or spice effect tend to involve force feeding rats massive amounts of one food or spice and seeing what it does - just to see if it has any effect at all. But that doesn’t tell us what happens from eating normal amounts.
Turmeric *extract* is a potent 5AR inhibitor, so never take turmeric pills. It would be like eating a huge amount of turmeric that nobody would ever eat all at once in real life.
Personally, I stopped adding turmeric to my food, and I will not even consider it until I have recovered, plus an additional year. At that point, I might think about eating small amounts of it on occasion.
No one gets PFS from turmeric, but if you’re recovering from PFS, my guess is that eating small amounts of turmeric occasionally might slow down your recovery. If you do have colon polyps, then the benefits probably outweigh the risks, because you don’t want colon cancer.