QUOTE (khael @ Feb 07 2008, 06:47 PM) How the hell did the discussion turn to placebos?
I concur!
QUOTE (khael @ Feb 07 2008, 06:47 PM)Yeah i agree with this. Obama FTW.
I concur!
QUOTE (khael @ Feb 07 2008, 06:47 PM)And quite a good point actually. If placebos work as damn well as drugs, why not use it instead of drugs?
Hast thou a sufficient knowledge of medication theory? A good number of my family work in the medical field, and a bro-in-law of mine is currently working on his Phd in biochemistry (he'll be developing drugs and such), and as such, I've got a bit of know-how with the drugs. Placebo effect is humiliatingly effective and all, but it mostly has to do with manipulating your thoughts (which sometimes leads to an actual physical manifestation, although it depends upon your condition). Cancer, for example, no matter how much you imagine a sugar-pill is killing those mutated cells, they ain't.
Medications actually cause chemical reactions, changing certain... well... chemicals in the body, providing a wide range of effects, effects which occur whether or not you imagine them to.
...but there's always the mass medical conspiracy theory, if you're into conspiracy theories. I'm not so much.
No one here is claiming that wishful thinking will cure every ailment, but you can't take it out of the equation, either.
...but yeah, I'm not so sure how much that relates to the thread's topic, maybe I missed a point somewhere...
I concur!
QUOTE (khael @ Feb 07 2008, 06:47 PM)Yeah i agree with this. Obama FTW.
I concur!
QUOTE (khael @ Feb 07 2008, 06:47 PM)And quite a good point actually. If placebos work as damn well as drugs, why not use it instead of drugs?
Hast thou a sufficient knowledge of medication theory? A good number of my family work in the medical field, and a bro-in-law of mine is currently working on his Phd in biochemistry (he'll be developing drugs and such), and as such, I've got a bit of know-how with the drugs. Placebo effect is humiliatingly effective and all, but it mostly has to do with manipulating your thoughts (which sometimes leads to an actual physical manifestation, although it depends upon your condition). Cancer, for example, no matter how much you imagine a sugar-pill is killing those mutated cells, they ain't.
Medications actually cause chemical reactions, changing certain... well... chemicals in the body, providing a wide range of effects, effects which occur whether or not you imagine them to.
...but there's always the mass medical conspiracy theory, if you're into conspiracy theories. I'm not so much.
No one here is claiming that wishful thinking will cure every ailment, but you can't take it out of the equation, either.
...but yeah, I'm not so sure how much that relates to the thread's topic, maybe I missed a point somewhere...