Parkinson’s: A Placebo Cure?
A Placebo Cure?
Have you read about the placebo? I imagine we all have in the past. It is a sugar pill that patients get instead of the real pill. During a research study the patients don't know which one they are getting. “To prove that a drug works, scientists must show that it performs significantly better than a placebo in a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial.”
Now here comes an incredible, new fact from Scientists. ( It sounds like a science fiction movie.)
“The mind's power over the body seems to be growing.”
What exactly does that mean?
Scientists and drug companies have noticed that placebos have been helping patients so much, that some drugs can no longer out perform them. Not because the drugs are less effective but because the mind's power over the body seems to be growing.”
There have been large studies “of hundreds of drug trials that showed that more than half of the treatment affect was attributed to the placebo.”
During drug trials the volunteers don't know if they are getting the placebo or the medicine being tested. After Scientists had begun noting the new placebo effect they started to run tests. to find out if it made a difference if the volunteers knew they were getting a placebo or not. It didn't, the placebos still out performed the trial drugs. W.O.W.
Oh boy, that really opens up my mind to thoughts of, what if, instead of giving me meds with all the horrible side affects, the Dr. first tried writing me a prescription for a placebo that came in a pill bottle from the pharmacy, with all the tiny printing but it said it was a placebo?
Then I started thinking it seemed silly to have to go pay for a bottle of placebos-couldn't I just work with my mind? Could I? Could you?
But would I? I think that is the right question to ask myself..... My answer is probably not.
Anywho, I haven't read more about this. Lately I feel like it has been hard for me to focus and to get done all the things I want to. Do you also feel the days fly by so quickly?
If you come across more information or decide to research it, please write a guest post and tell us the rest of the Placebo story.
And that brings us to the second thing, I want to say today. Thank you for the reply's on line and the emailed reply's I get to my posts! (I save a lot of them to read again, when I need a boost.) You have made my journey much better from the beginning. I have felt heard and occasionally chortled with. :-)
Sometimes, you have written about your thoughts or journey. I feel we have become friends through those moments.
But mostly, it has been about me.
We do an exercise in our zoom Choir Class,
where we sing on a scale,
from soft-to-loud-to-soft
me me me me me me me
Every time, it makes me smile and want to giggle
and to cringe at the same time
I would love to get more feedback about your thoughts about the topic
or about how your journey is going.
And consider writing a Guest Post. Or if you feel you don't have anything to say, or hate to write..That's fine too. Thank you for being here.
Cheers,
Nancy and the Snark
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