Sentences with phrase «just placebo»

In many cases, battery saving apps are just placebo effects that do more harm than good.

Is the responsiveness a nice bonus to their browsing experience, or is it just placebo compounded by novelty?

I'm a fan of heavy phones — generally speaking they tend to feel more durable, even if that's just a placebo — and the Mix 2 weighs in at 210 grams (just over 7.4 ounces).

It's possible that's just a placebo effect, or a difference in the watch face we're using.

Can art treat social ills, or is it just a placebo?»

Unfortunately, I have no idea if they are actually doing what they claim because I do not know how to do the CC reading from afar, but I do feel a little safer... so maybe just placebo effect?

Whether the healing properties are scientifically proven or just a placebo effect, I felt refreshed and content after spending just fifteen minutes in the water.

All - in - all, the belt dressing is just a placebo.

To be honest, it's not so noticeable that I can swear it's not just a placebo effect.

``... not just placebo - ing.

Now there are scientific studies to prove the fact that it's not just a placebo effect.

I thought it was just a placebo effect, a one - time deal.

Or it is just a placebo effect and a huge marketing scam?

Maybe it was just the placebo effect of my passion for this work?I didn't understand the truth about healing, about the body's synergy with its own environment until I met Dr. Nick Gonzalez in January 2015.

I doubt this is just a placebo effect.

Hoping it's not just placebo but finally feel as if I may be on my way to just feeling normal again.

I think there's something there and I think maybe the best way to do it would be instead of looking at just a placebo, you'd almost have to go coffee versus coffee with fat to use your thing or just fat versus some form of placebo rather than just a fast, right?

Yes, probably just placebo but if it makes you feel better and as long as they don't cause harm then why not.

Anyway just thought i would share because everyone thinks I'm crazy that i healed my body with a plant based diet and they think it was just the placebo effect!

I did feel a difference, more energy and more strength, but I'm still not sure if this is just placebo effect.

Many studies show that daily DHEA supplementation increases testosterone 20 % more than just a placebo (21, 22, 23).

Furthermore, the placebo effect, while often being used to dismiss therapies («oh, it's probably just a placebo effect») should really be viewed as an amazing miracle of medicine and evidence of how powerful our bodies and minds are.

The funny thing is we have published stories reporting that there is no good science to back up this folk remedy, so maybe it's just placebo effect, but it always works for me.»

But most patients just want to get better, so if chanting a mantra — like you might do at the beginning or end of yoga class or throughout a meditation or in the course of your day — facilitates healing, even if it's just a placebo effect, why not do it?

I sat and sat for probably 15 minutes, and thought I felt a bit warmer or lighter throughout, but I wasn't sure if it was true or just a placebo effect.

Even if it is just the placebo effect, the compression socks can be a great aid for any serious cyclist out there.

Even if it's just a placebo effect... it's worth it even if you only see minimal benefits!

We are also captivated with schizandra berry, hoping to get an energy boost from it and if it's all just a placebo effect, that the placebo effect continue for a very long time.

Its just the Placebo process that heals.

There's science behind it, but it's too new to know if it «really works» or it's just a placebo effect.

However, rooting opens your device to many features manufacturers would never include, like the Xposed Framework and real performance boosters that aren't just placebos.

Not exact matches

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

My sense is that just like a placebo, religion only «works» if you first believe.

However, if amber does «work» (whether because there is actually something in it that aleviates symptoms), or whether because of a placebo effect, or whatever, shouldn't we just be happy that it works and leave it at that?

Of them all, giving your baby a probiotic is perhaps the one treatment that just might help, although a very recent double - blind, placebo - controlled randomized trial in Australia concluded that «L reuteri DSM 17938 did not benefit a community sample of breastfed infants and formula fed infants with colic.»

I'm one of those people that thinks everything is a placebo and I refuse to spend money on things that I just don't think will work.

The field is also expanding into patient - centered outcomes research, so not just comparing drug A with a placebo, but drug A versus drug B.» In spite of the uncertainties, she says, «It's an exciting time because we have a lot to learn.»

«A significant body of research has resulted in a shift from thinking of placebos as just «dummy» treatments to recognizing that placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Study subjects who received a 3 - milligram (3 - mg) dose of liraglutide lost an average of 8 percent of their body weight (18.7 pounds), compared with just 2.6 percent (6.2 pounds) for subjects receiving a placebo, or «dummy» drug, the investigators reported.

With so much on the line, athletes are willing to try new treatments that may be groundbreaking cures or just elaborate placebos.

First, though, the placebo effect will have to pass the rigorous tests and analysis of medical researchers — just like any other drug.

The others, she said, would get a placebo — an inactive pill that looked just like their usual drug.

Suddenly, it was clear that when a patient improved on placebo, it wasn't just some delusion or an effort to please a person in a lab coat.

«The mTORKi also may lead to additional cardiac benefit by decreasing valvular fibrosis (damage) when compared with placebo or just the rapalog.

That's compared to just 8 percent in the placebo group.

After hearing that their children had just consumed a big sugar fix, parents were more likely to say their child was hyperactive, even when the big sugar fix was a placebo, another study found.

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.

Just under half of patients using cannabinoids for their symptoms had an absence of nausea and vomiting compared to 13 per cent on placebo.

All patients received placebo or 200 mg aspirin just before surgery.

Alzheimer's disease may have been slowed in two people given implants that stimulate the brain with electricity, but this may just have been the placebo effect