[NAY]  09/09/2011: Jenny from Birmingham, Great Britain replies: "I had been taking these capsules - 1 a day and the first time I took them, I had terrible diarhoea. I stopped and did a bit of liver flushing more mildly. Then I resumed taking them. My RA and Osteo arthritis pain increased after a week or so. I stopped them and gradually my pain reduced. I waited a long while and started taking them again. I have been taking them for 2 and a half weeks and there is pain all over my body. I don't know if it is the turmeric essential oil. Perhaps it is too strong. I will stop taking them now. I will go back to Boswellia with curcumin. That product worked. After two months my pain decreased wonderfully and there was no general all over pain like there is with this product. It was an expensive waste of time. Jenny UK"

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02/01/2010: Peter from Chicago, Il replies: "Hi Joyce,

Welcome back ! What is your opinion that oil is needed in order for the tumeric to be absorbed in the body?"

02/02/2010: Joyce from Joelton, Tn replies: "Hello Peter from Chicago, I don't have a definite answer to your question, but putting our heads together to work this problem out.

I have read that curcumin is fat soluble rather than water soluble, so we won't waste time belaboring the fact or fiction of this statement. However, logic tells me that the curcumin has to be absorbed in our body for it to work its magic for us. Logic also tells me that if we take it with our meals there is most likely going to be enough fat in our stomach and digestive systems to utilize the curcumin. If you take it at times when you don't eat you might want to take a teaspoonful of EVO, EV coconut oil or even eat an half an avocado (another healthy fat) along with the curcumin. Most likely the ingestion of this small amount of healthy fat along with the curcumin would be sufficient to trigger the release of bile to digest the fat, carrying the curcumin along with it to be absorbed in our digestive tracts.

If you are using the curcumin externally as some of the EC family mentioned (on boils, etc), I would definitely use an oil to mix it with before applying it since it is oil soluble and is not likely to do its magic until you get it in a condition that the transdermal method can use to absorb it.

If any of our EC family who sings curcumin's praises after using it can shed any enlightment on this question, I am sure we would all be glad to hear it, especially if the above logic is different than what they experienced.

I also have a question for the rest of the EC family. Have any of you experienced a change in the color of your urine while using curcumin? For some reason or other, my urine changed color after using curcumin. If any of you are familiar with pyridium, a drug that ends the pain of bladder/kidney infections, the color was very similar to the color of the urine of someone who is taking pyridium!"

02/03/2010: Rena from Mineral Bluff, Georgia, Usa replies: "Hi Joyce From Joelton,

I hope others chime in but I'll be happy to give you my experience with turmeric. Being such a strong color, I was expecting my urine and/or stools to turn yellow, but they do not. Everything is normal in color. I Have even taken as much as 8, "00" in a day (capping my own) and still no change in color. I also hope to hear from others now I'm curious, Peace, Rena."

02/03/2010: Joyce from Joelton, Tn replies: "Thanks, Rena from Mineral Bluff.

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that turmeric in the presence of something turned ruby red, but I can't remember what that presence was and I can't find it again. If anyone read the same thing and can remember what it was, please share with us. The color my urine changed to was very close to that of pyridium - close to florescent orangeish-red."

07/30/2010: Quiltartist from Gualala, California replies: "Three days ago I started 400mg curcumin and my urine is an orangish rosey color. I called the supplier and they'd never heard of this effect. Glad to have come across this comment. I've never had blood in my urine, but this doesn't strike me as looking like what I think that would look like. And it coincides with my having started this supplement. When you open a capsule and mix the content in water you notice the water turns golden, but there is granular material that doesn't dissolve and it is a vermillion color. I'll discontinue taking the product a few days to be sure that's what this color change is, but it has dramatically helped my costal chondritis, so I'll resume. Don't care what color my urine is as long as the cause of the change is harmless."

08/21/2011: Mimi from Abu Dhabi, Uae replies: "It seems Bicarbonate of soda has that effect. I was applying a paste of Turmeric and castor oil on my face for acne and wiping it off with cotton pads soaked in bicarbonate of soda. Found that this turned the pads bright red!"

01/18/2012: Debra from Arlington, Tx, Usa replies: "Responding to Joyce from Joelton, TN

I had found and watched this video a few months back. Might not explain your symptom but will explain color change using turmeric.

http://www.experiencefestival.com/wp/videos/the-home-scientist-019--testing-for-boron-with-curcumin-turmeric/i9l-spro3tY"

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