Sentences with phrase «by placebo»

Results are supported by placebo tests and not driven by differential attrition.

The exact cause of the weight loss is unknown, but may be explained by a placebo effect and / or the fiber added to the beverages.

They found that one bodybuilder went from 160 pullups max to 620 pullups over a 6 week period using this «cool - therapy», thats a lot more improvement than can be explained away by placebo effect.

Despite that, reviews of studies have found the positive effects of homeopathic treatment for certain conditions — including acute diarrhea, flu, and allergies — can not be explained by a placebo effect alone (the placebo effect is when people get better because they are receiving some pill, even if that is a neutral «sugar pill»).

Do you think they are lying, hallucinating, or do you think they were cured by the placebo effect?

And even if a therapy works by placebo effect, so what?

Because participants in such studies are not «blinded» — they know if they are getting treatment or not — they are likely to be influenced by the placebo effect and other forms of expectancy bias.

Mounting evidence suggests that the boost from human growth hormone (HGH), an increasingly popular doping drug, might be caused by the placebo effect.

In addition, all patients were aware they were being given treatment so the results seen could be affected by placebo effect.

The successful treatment of certain physical and psychological complaints can be explained to a significant extent by the placebo effect.

The other half took NR for the first six weeks, followed by placebo.

According to Ted Kaptchuk at Harvard Medical School and his colleagues at least one condition can be calmed by placebo, even when everyone knows it's just an inert pill.

Regarding the science criticism, it's impossible to scientifically prove by a placebo - controlled, double - blind, randomized study (the gold standard in science) that AP works better than a more distant style of parenting.

And up until the 1990s many experts thought dietary galactagogues worked by a placebo effect (mind over matter).

Not exact matches

The company said its claims were backed up by a a double - blind, placebo - controlled study.

Another study on the «placebo» effect and sleep found essentially that you can fake your way out of exhaustion after a bad night's sleep by simply telling yourself you feel OK.

For the testosterone - then - placebo group, investments in high variance stocks fell on average 20 % in week 2, whereas they increased by 88 % on average in the placebo - then - testosterone group.

Earlier this year the company reported that patients who took PRX - 002 saw their alpha synuclein levels drop by as much as 96 %, which is a massive improvement that performed significantly better than a placebo.

not only is the placebo effect very real, you don't have to have any actual change interventional treatment (in other words, you don't need to add a sham treatment / placebo for the effect to be seen)-- just the increased attention and tracking / support by interested parties can improve clinical status

The big pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and the AMA are against healthcare reform and offer placebos for the problem by hiring lobbyists and spreading disinformation.

Then he or she is monitored for a reaction by a healthcare professional who doesn't know whether the patient received the food or the placebo.

The cyclists in the Montmorency tart cherry group maintained muscle function (as measured by maximum voluntary isometric contraction) and experienced a reduction in certain inflammatory responses following the simulated cycling race, compared to those consuming the placebo drink.

The research team, led by Glyn Howatson and Phillip G. Bell at Northumbria University in the U.K., conducted this double - blind, placebo - controlled study to identify the effects of Montmorency tart cherry juice on recovery from a metabolically challenging exercise: prolonged, high - intensity cycling.

The double - blind, placebo - controlled study, conducted by Glyn Howatson and Phillip G. Bell at Northumbria University in the UK, involved 16 well - trained male cyclists who were divided into two groups: one consuming Montmorency tart cherry juice and the other a placebo beverage including an equal amount of carbohydrates.

Another study by the University of Birmingham found that volunteers who took vitamin C exhibited 75 % more post exercise recovery than those who consumed vitamin E or a placebo.

One study performed by researchers, Melli, Rashidi, Nokhoodchi, Tagavi, Farzadi, Sadaghat & Sheshvan (2007) comparing peppermint gel to either lanolin or placebo discovered peppermint gel to be superior in its ability to prevent cracked nipples (3.8 % compared to 6.9 % and 22.6 %, respectfully).

They also had a higher forced vital capacity (FVC) by 14 milliliters when checked against those children who mothers had been given the beta - carotene or the placebo.

Unfortunately, these types of treatments don't usually help or only help by way of a placebo effect and they can have side effects.

If however many MDs aren't practicing evidence - based medicine, then why not don't MDs * police their own * before going off on other professions for their lack of evidence - base... or attacking what evidence - base there is even if it isn't multiple double - blind placebo controlled studies funded by wealthy drug manufacturers?

There were no significant differences in adverse events between groups, which were reported by 2 % of children taking the three types of honey compared to 1 % taking placebo.

Participants were randomized by a computer - generated random number into either the compression sock group or the placebo noncompressive group.

In the placebo group, run to exhaustion time decreased by 3.4 % (− 62 ± 130 seconds), P = 0.009.

However, pre - and post-feed weights revealed that infants who are fed milk by mothers who have consumed alcohol tend to take in less milk than mothers who were consuming a nonalcoholic placebo.

In cohort 1, compared to the placebo group influenza - like illness was reduced by 9 percent in pre - and post-partum mothers who received vaccine.

A larger placebo - controlled clinical trial, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), is now underway.

The trial found that rosuvastatin reduced the risk of cardiovascular events by 44 percent as compared with placebo.

Researchers report that bococizumab had short - term benefits on lowering cholesterol levels and significantly reduced the risk of cardiovascular events by 21 percent compared to placebo among those who had baseline LDL cholesterol levels of greater than 100 mg / dL.

The placebo effect, also known as non-specific effects and the subject - expectancy effect, is the phenomenon that a patient's symptoms can be alleviated by an otherwise ineffective treatment, since the individual expects or believes that it will work.

They found there was no significant difference in the levels of pain experienced by those taking the drug and those that received a placebo.

One study commissioned by the makers of Paxil — GlaxoSmithKline — found that children aged 7 to 18 who took the antidepressant were up to three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts or display suicidal behavior than children who received a placebo.

The finding also will lead to more precise and accurate clinical trials for pain medications by eliminating individuals with high placebo response before trials.

In a 2013 reanalysis of a trial comparing hormone replacement therapy with a placebo, participants were split by age.

«Placebo effects in women are boosted by vasopressin.»

Hall was excited by this discovery of a potential biomarker for placebo responses, especially because it suggests there may be many more.

Alternatively, the Institute investigated the benefit and harm of treatment of ASB detected by screening compared with non-treatment or placebo.

Parkinson's patients are especially susceptible to the placebo effect — a phenomenon by which a condition improves solely because the patient believes treatment has occurred.

Jensen says many doctors cripple their chances of leveraging the placebo effect by acting disinterested or lacking confidence with patients.

Perhaps, Benedetti thought, CCK is to nocebos what opioids are to placebos: Whereas blocking opioids canceled pain relief, blocking CCK actually supercharged it by allowing opioids to run wild in the brain.

After phase III trials, reported in 2006, ended in disappointment for the prostate cancer vaccine Provenge (made by Dendreon in Seattle), subsequent analyses revealed that men whose prostate cancer had spread survived a median of 4.5 months longer than those given a placebo.

«Placebo has a long history of being a word for an effect that can't possibly be something real, by definition.»