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Think yourself better: Alternative medical treatments rarely work. But the placebo effect they...
The Economist ^ | May 19th 2011 | NA

Posted on 05/22/2011 6:42:04 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 05/22/2011 6:42:10 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Kissy boo boo works. It’s the love that heals!


2 posted on 05/22/2011 6:45:44 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (I stand with Israel!)
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To: neverdem

LOL! I would rather do alternative medicine than any medicine the doctor might prescribe.

God made a fabulous body and if you give it the right stuff you have a good chance of healing!


3 posted on 05/22/2011 6:46:41 PM PDT by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: neverdem

Chemo, the only answer Doctors believe in.

Chemo is poison, and like most drugs, does more harm than good, although you won’t hear that on the evening news (mostly because the majority of ads on the evening news are for pharmaceuticals!).

http://alternativemedicinetruth.blogspot.com/2006/10/chemotherapy-alternatives.html


4 posted on 05/22/2011 6:48:59 PM PDT by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: neverdem
Traditional medicine and it's drugs have done more harm to people than alternative doctors ever have.

I don't go to either but I know I would trust a holistic doctor before others.

Don't get me started. Doctors and their drugs have almost killed many in my family.

5 posted on 05/22/2011 6:51:07 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: neverdem

It depends on the case, but quite a lot of herbal medicine works.


6 posted on 05/22/2011 6:52:25 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: chicagolady
God made a fabulous body and if you give it the right stuff you have a good chance of healing!

Feed it the right food, and it will heal itself. That means whole foods and sprouted grains, if any.

7 posted on 05/22/2011 6:52:53 PM PDT by Desdemona ( If trusting the men in the clergy was a requirement for Faith, there would be no one in the pews.)
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Yes, it is so much better for me to take sinus meds instead of routinely using my netti pot and having my sinuses adjusted by my chiro. My alternative ways haven't prevented an infection in three years, the infections have come and gone and I'm just too ignorant to notice them. I also have not been breathing through my nose. I only think I'm breathing through my nose. I must start popping pills that cause jitters, shakes, sleeplessness, and that disconnected head feeling. You know, the pills that you can't take with this because of that side effect, or the pills you can't take with that because of this side effect. And don't even think about operating a motor vehicle or trying to keep up with a toddler, those are simply not possible with sinus meds. But certainly don't use that warm salt water netti pot and get chiro adjustments. It's all in my head.
8 posted on 05/22/2011 6:55:37 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: neverdem
The placebo effect is not very exotic. It is merely the application of the power of suggestion. Suggestible people can have remarkable responses but the effect only holds for subjective symptoms. Like its cousin hypnotic suggestion, it can help relieve pain, or improve your mood, but no placebo will help you if you have MS or cancer, no matter how much you believe in it.
9 posted on 05/22/2011 6:59:27 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: neverdem

Because what has been learned in the last 200 years completely disproves everything learned in the previous 5000.


10 posted on 05/22/2011 6:59:50 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

AMEN!!


11 posted on 05/22/2011 6:59:50 PM PDT by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: neverdem

I noticed this with aspirin many years ago. If aspirin helped with a headache then it began helping within 5-10 minutes. I read that it takes 20 minutes. I knew then it was ‘all in my head’ so I stopped taking pain relievers.


12 posted on 05/22/2011 7:00:06 PM PDT by decimon
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To: goodwithagun

I’m lost - are you, like me, sinus infection free thanks to regular Neti-Pot use, or was there something else you meant to say?


13 posted on 05/22/2011 7:04:10 PM PDT by Desdemona ( If trusting the men in the clergy was a requirement for Faith, there would be no one in the pews.)
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To: neverdem

We go to an Osteopath MD. I have great confidence in him. They are more open about less invasive procedures and many non-mainline treatments. Regular MD’s often look down their nose to them, but that is nonsense.

What works, works.

The AMA is a pox on the medical profession. A very small percentage of Doctors belong to that expensive union. Many specialist do however.

Do you realize the one important course they don’t teach in medical school? Humility. (the lawyers fixed that)


14 posted on 05/22/2011 7:05:44 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: neverdem

The placebo effect always works. How well it affects the results is an individual issue.


15 posted on 05/22/2011 7:05:50 PM PDT by allmost
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To: chicagolady

A failed chemo drug, AZT, given to people diagnosed with AIDS, is responsible for thousands, maybe millions of deaths. Notice how few people in the Western world have died of AIDS since they quit using toxic chemical treatments, and went to anti-biotics and other treatments? If they gave you AZT, you simply died within a few months at best.


16 posted on 05/22/2011 7:07:32 PM PDT by runninglips (Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics.)
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Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer?

Before Tony Snow began his chemo-treatments for his second colon cancer, he still looked healthy and strong. But after a few weeks into his treatment, he started to develop a coarse voice, looked frail, turned gray and lost his hair. Did the cancer do all this to him? Certainly not. Cancer doesn’t do such a thing, but chemical poisoning does. He actually looked more ill than someone who has been bitten by a poisonous snake.

Does the mainstream media ever report about the overwhelming scientific evidence that shows chemotherapy has zero benefits in the five-year survival rate of colon cancer patients? Or how many oncologists stand up for their cancer patients and protect them against chemotherapy treatment which they very well know can cause them to die far more quickly than if they received no treatment at all? Can you trustingly place your life into their hands when you know that most of them would not even consider chemotherapy for themselves if they were diagnosed with cancer? What do they know that you don’t? The news is spreading fast that in the United States physician-caused fatalities now exceed 750,000 each year. Perhaps, many doctors no longer trust in what they practice, for good reasons.

“Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy... Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade. Yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors... Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo than without it.” - Alan Levin, M.D.

“Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy….The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-—Hodgkin’s disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.”-—Ralph Moss, Ph.D. 1995 Author of Questioning Chemotherapy.

“NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!”—Samuel Epstein.

“A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo’s supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin’s disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy (NCI Journal 87:10).”—John Diamond


17 posted on 05/22/2011 7:07:50 PM PDT by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: hinckley buzzard

I saw a recreation of an experiment, where they “shot” electrons at a target, then placed a shield over the target, and shot the electrons at the same target, and they “went around” the shield. Isn’t this a case of a physicist placebo effect?


18 posted on 05/22/2011 7:10:25 PM PDT by runninglips (Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics.)
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To: goodwithagun
I'll go along with the neti pot to wash out sinuses of bacteria before it begins to grow, that is a great idea. But having your sinuses adjusted????????
19 posted on 05/22/2011 7:12:37 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: neverdem

Massage...acupuncture...exercese....sleep..
Good diet..... Proper posture an nutritional supplements.

Don’t work worth a damn.....:o)

< / sarcasm>

Stay safe Doc !


20 posted on 05/22/2011 7:23:33 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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