There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.
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A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.
I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.
I'm addicted to placebos.
Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of improving and, so, improve even if they are actually on the placebo. Conversely, if they suspect they are taking the placebo, their expectancy of improvement declines, and so does their improvement.
The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
Placebos work.
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
I'm not a big believer in vitamins and all that stuff.
Most medications don't work effectively for a lot people.
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