Is Turmeric bad for your kidneys?

For the last 2 to 3 years, I had been taking high doses of turmeric supplements. Yes, 1,500 to 2,000 mg every day, and, at times, even exceeding that because everyone was raving about its amazin…

Top stories for Long   Is Turmeric bad for your kidneys? Oscar Manderine, studied at Yale University • Answered January 19 For the last 2 to 3 years, I had been taking high doses of turmeric supplements. Yes, 1,500 to 2,000 mg every day, and, at times, even exceeding that because everyone was r... Read more » 306 37   Why is Windows 11 using 55% of my 12GB of RAM while doing nothing? Trausti Thor Johannsson, I love technology • Answered December 24 It caches a lot of operations like files and folders, icons and apps you just ran. This is why you can open up Word, quit it and if you start it again, it will load almost ... Read more » 90 17   Why is lettuce used in burgers/salad when it adds no value? Jim Campbell, former Professional Curmudgeon and Cranky Old Man • Answered January 3 I'm going on the assumption that your idea of lettuce is the much maligned Iceberg lettuce. In its defense I'm going to let you in on a little secret- Iceberg lettuce does ... Read more » 881 141   Is it true that humans are already no longer writing software code? Alan Mellor, Started programming 8 bit computers in 1981 • Answered January 14 Partly true, yes. Current LLM AI is good enough to treat as a pair programmer and under your direction, have it generate similar code to what we would enter in an IDE. It's n... Read more » 246 35   If you eat the THC oil raw out of a dab cartridge, will it give you a high? Luna Williams • Answered January 22, 2024 DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS. I took a toothpick and put as much wax I could on it. After 1 hour nothing, so I took another, 1 hour later I was starting to feel it but started to... Read more » 475 199   When a surgeon opens up a person with cancer, what does that cancer look like? Daisy H. Baker, lives in Canada • Answered October 8 My parents both worked as surgeons before we moved to Canada. My mom was operating on a young woman who was in for a surgery to remove some sort of cancer in her stomach. T... Read more » 4.1K 212   How did the "9/11 Surfer" survive his fall of 15 floors? Is there any scientific explanation? OakTeller, lives in New York, NY • Answered January 10 The surfer name is a joke thing for a nightmare. He is one of the luckiest men in history. There was no falling nicely in air - If he had, gravity would have smashed him fla... Read more » 7.2K 229   Geometry: What is the proof that all the angles in a triangle add up to 180 degrees? Asked in MATHEMATICS MADE EASY • Answered by Philip Lloyd • May 1, 2022 When I teach that the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees I always do this little demonstration which every student always remembers! I make a general triangle, with ... Read more » 1.9K 119   VAL BALTASAR, Chef at Zsichuan (2017-present) • Posted Feb 11, 2025 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum addresses Trump: "So, you voted to build a wall. Well, dear Americans, even if you don't understand much about geography, since for you America is your country and... Read more » 28.2K 5.9K   If a, b, c, and d are integers, then what 4-digit number ABCD satisfies the equation 4×abcd=dcba? Enrico Gregorio, Associate professor in Algebra • Answered December 23 First off, [math]a[/math] has to be even. On the other hand, if [math]a>2,[/math] then four times the four digit number [math]abcd[/math] would have five digits. Hence [math]a=2.[/math] Thus we are reduced to [math]4(2000+100b+10c+d)=1000d+100c+10b+2[/math] hence [math]4000+200b+20c+2d=500d+50c+5b+1[/math] and, after simplifying b... Read more » 29 1   I wrote a check for the full price of a car but it has been two years and the dealer never cashed the check. I have the title in my name with no lien on it. Can the dealer repossess the car? Bill Baldwin, Ph.D. Computer Science, Iowa State University (1983) • Answered December 6 I have two incidences that apply to this. I bought a car with a loan about 1983. About 1985, I moved out of town. I noticed the money I had in my banking account was slight... Read more » 585 23   Why are people getting upset about needing to buy new computers just to run Windows 11? Dave Haynie, Hardware Systems Engineer (Rajant + Commodore-Amiga + 20 years in startups) • Answered January 9 It's a combination of things. One is that Windows 10 is no longer supported. That means no improvements, no bug fixes, no security updates, etc. In short, it's increasingly... Read more » 455 143 Read more in your feed

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Can vaping cause cancer?

Listen, let me get right to the point – yes, vaping leads to cancer, and anyone who says otherwise is either misinformed or trying to sell you something. We don't have a history like the cigs, a…

Top stories for Long   Can vaping cause cancer? Donald Marcline, Medical Advisor (2002-present) • Answered January 20 Listen, let me get right to the point – yes, vaping leads to cancer, and anyone who says otherwise is either misinformed or trying to sell you something. We don't have a hi... Read more » 58 27   When does it become pointless to quit drinking? Dawn Leeper, lives in The United States of America (1966-present) • Updated January 5 While there are many reasons to stop drinking, I can think of one reason not to. As my late father-in-law said when a doctor told him to stop drinking and smoking at 65 or ... Read more » 784 9   What is the dumbest code ever made that has become famous? John Byrd, CEO, Gigantic Software; Director, Sega; Sr Manager, Electronic Arts; Harvard '91 • Updated January 8, 2024 That code would be worstsort. This bit of code is not famous yet, as it was only invented in 2012, but it's pretty amazingly brilliantly dumb. I'm going to tell you a new so... Read more » 9.5K 179   VAL BALTASAR, Chef at Zsichuan (2017-present) • Posted Feb 11, 2025 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum addresses Trump: "So, you voted to build a wall. Well, dear Americans, even if you don't understand much about geography, since for you America is your country and... Read more » 28.1K 5.9K   What office rule made you say "You gotta be kidding me"? Jantama, Quora's McGregor • Answered April 23, 2025 "Our CEO forbids it," the HR manager said. I was an intern at a startup. One day, I noticed my paycheck was missing. I checked my bank account every hour. Nothing came. I co... Read more » 12.2K 449   Is taking THC gummies daily bad for older adults? I take 20 to 40 mg daily. Pete Cresswell, former Developer of bond-trading apps for mutual funds (1992-2017) • Updated January 19 Speaking as a board-certified Old Person, my experience has been that 25 mg of THC delivered via a gummy seriously increases the odds of my falling. Full Disclosure: due to ... Read more » 199 45   What is a tensor? William Oliver, Pursuing BsC Mathematics, The Open University (2023) • Updated September 23, 2019 A few years ago, I vowed that I would answer this question when I figured out what a tensor really was, because I also had a problem with finding an intuitively satisfying ... Read more » 709 72   Why is lettuce used in burgers/salad when it adds no value? Jim Campbell, former Professional Curmudgeon and Cranky Old Man • Answered January 3 I'm going on the assumption that your idea of lettuce is the much maligned Iceberg lettuce. In its defense I'm going to let you in on a little secret- Iceberg lettuce does ... Read more » 829 137   How did the "9/11 Surfer" survive his fall of 15 floors? Is there any scientific explanation? OakTeller, lives in New York, NY • Answered January 10 The surfer name is a joke thing for a nightmare. He is one of the luckiest men in history. There was no falling nicely in air - If he had, gravity would have smashed him fla... Read more » 7.2K 226   What happens if a woman giving birth doesn't push? Won't the baby fly out anyway? If so, why do we make them push? H. Meijer, studied at Medical Doctors • Updated September 12, 2021 An old midwife told me the following story: In the fifties, when birth out of wedlock was still a disgrace, girls who got pregnant would be given the opportunity to live in ... Read more » 2.7K 214   Don Bower, Actor/Author • Posted Mar 17, 2025 So 3 Muslims in Wales kidnapped a Jewish man, tied him to a radiator, and brutally beat and tortured him. They intended to kill him, but he survived only because he managed to escape. Can you imagi... Read more » 9.4K 1.5K   After drinking water my body needs to pee every 10 to 15 minutes. Is there any problem with my body? Frank Butera, Pediatrician, child and adolescent health specialist • Answered December 12 Over the years, I had several teens come into my office with this history. The first thing I did was to have them produce some urine which I then could dipstick and check f... Read more » 320 18 Read more in your feed

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