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Funny, I read that last night, then this morning gave the mag to a friend at work who suffers from IBS ;-)
Apparently, in some testing, groups that were simply promised treatment (but had received none yet, just a promise, that's even worse than a sugar pill) scored better than groups that got real medicine... Just an example, I don't meant to jest at my friend's problem.... Also people who got a placebo and had a friendly doctor who listened and told them "they'd be OK" scored better than people who got the real medicine... Amazing !
Anyway, very interesting article, seems like for some diseases, the brain has a great capacity to trigger our body's self-healing. Which would kinda suggest we're pretty good at making ourselves sick too !
That said, I would not trade a sugar pill for a course of antibiotics, though ;-) But a good read !!
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