Sentences with phrase «powerful placebo»

This isn't a new idea — I read a very interesting book on the placebo effect a few years ago that argued, in effect, that the doctor - patient relationship is the most powerful placebo mechanism available to us.

«But keep in mind that humans are highly suggestive: Sexual response and sexual chemistry have a lot to do with emotion, and so if these women are paying money for a treatment, they may very well be experiencing a powerful placebo effect.»

Although Dr. Offit acknowledges the placebo effect and includes a concise, well - researched review of the placebo effect, never once does he cite how powerful that placebo effect can be.

For new moms who believe in the process going in, there may be a powerful placebo effect, which could explain why some women report feeling better.

It's possible that eating placenta — or the powerful placebo effect that act may inspire — actually does help women.

Prayer has a powerful placebo effect on the faithful person doing the praying, makes him - her feel swell, but when they start hearing voices it indicates they forgot to take their medication.

Not exact matches

As powerful as they can be, the biochemical processes underlying placebo effects don't seem to unfold the same way in every brain.

They injected some subjects with a powerful opioid painkiller and others with a placebo and had them rate their pain.

Researchers leading a large, ongoing study in women called VOICE that compares PrEP with pills to a vaginal microbicide plan to revaluate the ethics of continuing to use a placebo control group given the new evidence of oral Truvada's powerful impact.

Widely hailed as a «breakthrough» in HIV prevention by public health officials, the studies — one of which dropped its placebo arm today because of the convincing effects of the intervention — add powerful new tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.

The placebo effect is very powerful, she notes.

This is the placebo effect: somehow, sometimes, a whole lot of nothing can be very powerful.

«What we're trying to do is boost the placebo response to make drugs more powerful, or reduce the amount of medication someone might need because of their strong placebo response,» she says.

This actually doesn't surprise me... this is classic placebo effect at work here, and reinforces how powerful our brains are in relation to the results we get from exercise, food, supplements, etc..

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.

In it, scientists tested three antioxidant substances: milk thistle (a powerful but risky supplement), selenium (top notch), NAC, and a placebo.

N - Acetylcysteine (NAC) is a powerful antioxidant that fights oxidative stress and has been shown to improve pregnancy and ovulation rate in women with PCOS when compared to a placebo.