Sentences with phrase «do double blind studies»

(Which raises the question, how would you do a double blind study to test the placebo effect itself.

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The prayer study proceeded with a double blind study where multiple subjects either KNEW / DID N'T KNOW / THOUGHT they were being prayed for.

A double blind study published in the June 2013 issue of the Nutrition Journal was done at the University of Tampa where sports nutrition researchers compared rice and whey protein with subjects who were building muscle and looking to reduce soreness quickly so they can return to training.

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?

Sugar doesn't change kids» behavior, a double - blind research study found way back in 1994.

Update, 24 September, 4.30 p.m.: A previous version of this story did not mention that the conclusions of a study finding that double - blind review benefited female authors in Behavioral Ecology has been challenged.

Endocrinologist Hau Liu of Stanford University and his colleagues looked at 44 studies and found that although HGH did increase athletes» lean body mass, it did not lead to improvements in athletic performance in double - blind trials.

In a double - blind, placebo - controlled study, they tested subjects» cognitive abilities using three methods, asking them to do simple math, a timed - response task, and the classic Stroop test (in which color words like red are written in other colors, like blue, and subjects are asked about the color or the word).

Despite the effectiveness already measured in other studies, 12 healthy young men undergoing a randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled, crossover study did not experience improved blood flow when exercising their forearm muscles.7 The journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism reported:

If you were to do a true double - blind study, look the patient has to do the method on themselves and then its double - blind.

He presented double - blind placebo - controlled studies on various nutrients as well as his own case studies, proving that eating foods in their natural state - unaltered by cooking, processing, preservatives, chemical fertilizers, fungicides, pesticides, or genetic modification - does indeed provide the body with all the essential vitamins, minerals, live enzymes, and phytochemicals - everything it needs to prevent and fight off disease and create vitality.»

Unfortunately there are not many double blind studies on intervention and symptom management when it comes to amino acids, but I'll be sharing the research that has been done — focusing on each neurotransmitter and amino acid individually.

Bray also discusses the fact that sweetened beverages in general, as compared to sweeteners added to solid foods, have a greater tendency to cause weight gain, citing a randomized, double - blind European study by Rabin and others, which found that drinking calorically sweetened beverages resulted in greater weight gain over the ten - week study than did drinking diet drinks.8 Since the beverages in this study were sweetened with sucrose, Bray called for a second randomized controlled study to compare sucrose - and HFCS - sweetened beverages.

Dave Asprey: Aging doesn't wait and I'm not planning on dying because I was waiting for double blind study that said dying was bad for me.

Their larger 2013 placebo - controlled, double - blinded, crossover study found LDN improved mood but did not help with sleep or fatigue.

Next up was Don't Use Antiseptic Mouthwash, which describes the role the natural good bacteria flora on our tongue plays in the performance - boosting effect of high nitrate vegetables, and Out of the Lab onto the Track, which documented the randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled crossover studies that convinced the scientific establishment of the real - world effect.

A study doesn't need to be double - blind in order to be valid; many studies in the medical field are not double - blind.

While the research is not always of the gold - standard variety — double - blind, placebo - controlled trials that are published in veterinary journals only after passing muster with a team of independent scientific experts who review the trials for study design and overall quality — preliminary studies do exist, and some dog food manufacturers have gone ahead and tested products on their own.

Answer: I don't really recommend it until more good (academic, double - blind, etc) studies are done on dogs.

A paper reporting a «rigorous double blind» study — the VIGOR trial — was submitted to NEJM in 1998, got through peer review at one of the most up - tight journals in the world of medicine, and — by way of cherry - picking the data submitted (selecting out some study subjects whose adverse events histories which, if considered, would've significantly affected the safety profile for rofecoxib and revealed something that Merck really didn't want us prescribers to learn about their «blockbuster» product — was published to be touted by Merck's marketing weevils as solid proofs of Vioxx's tolerability, efficacy, and safety.

While we're at it on the subject of bad research, Bill, why don't you speak with your brother about clinical research funded by the pharmaceuticals and devices manufacturers and ask him about how even ``... very rigorous double blind studies [which you describe as having] any credibility» can be jerked around to provide data for studies that are fundamentally deceptive by way of suggestio falsi, suppressio veri.