Galaxyshock, what you're saying is probably true in some cases and not in others. There's nothing about physical reality that is designed for humans, so we can't make any sweeping statements about how various aspects of our physical environment might affect us. I think we all tend to operate as though the world is made for us, and with that as an unconscious assumption we then generate conscious beliefs about how it works.
In the case of herbs, for example, we could adopt the philosophy that they must all be taken whole because they're already optimized for us by nature or God or whatever, and this seems to be the underlying belief behind Ayurveda and other traditional systems.
The polar opposite approach is to see nature as raw material for us to refine and shape for our purposes, with the belief here being that nature or God endowed us with the capacity to reason and to improve on the found condition of things.
I guess my paradigm is that the world is spectacularly complex and there is no formula we can apply to how any of it works at the level of complex adaptive systems and their responses to inputs and environmental conditions. So, with respect to curcumin and piperine, I think you could be right and I think you could be wrong. Fortunately there are objective ways to investigate such claims.
Edited by deeptrance, 17 February 2015 - 08:35 PM.