"The biomedical view is so pervasive that we often fail to see it as such but view it as reality. Questioning this model is like asking whether a goldfish knows it is in water." - O'Boyle, 1993
The placebo response has become a well-known, though severely misunderstood, phenomenon in popular culture. But many outside of the medical profession have never heard of the "nocebo response" which is often referred to as the "evil twin" ...
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THS reader Chad sent in this question:
Antidepressants - effective or placebo?
The use of antidepressant medication has become so widespread and commonly accepted that it seems almost sacrilegious to question it. But alas, questioning is the name of the game here at The Healthy Skeptic!
And what do you know? Antidepressants aren't all they're cracked up to be. In fact, a recent meta-review of published studies on the efficacy of antidepressant drugs revealed that selective serotonin ...
There's no doubt that optimal nutrition plays a significant role in supporting our health and well-being. But nutrition, as important as it is, obviously isn't the only factor that influences our physiology.
Over the past several years, an increasing amount of research has focused on the role of emotions, behavior and beliefs in contributing to both health and disease. In fact, an entirely new discipline called "psychoneuroimmunology" (say that three times fast!) has emerged to ...
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