The Pyramid Power

The Power of the Placebo in Human Health


By: Roseanna Leaton



I was chatting with a friend today who was commenting on the placebo effect and how most people only think about the positive effect of placebo, and turn a blind eye to how the placebo works just as powerful in a negative sense.

Anyone involved in the bio-tech industry, be they a scientist working in a pharmaceutical company or someone in the arena of ...

Sleeping and the placebo effect


By: John Scott



There used to be a joke going the rounds about the relationship between doctors and a patient. When the patient asks for treatment, the doctors reply. "This is a time for mind over matter. We don't mind and you don't matter." It may not be very funny, but it makes the point that many doctors have very poor people skills and frequently do not really care what ...

Mind And Muscle: The Supplement Placebo Effect


By: Klint Newton



<strong>The Mind Muscle Connection, Supplements with the Placebo Effect</strong> The Placebo Effect has dated back for years, it really became popular in World War II. Supplies ran short due to the lack of supply and the demand on them. They would often run out of medicine, especially painkillers, and had to give the individual peace of mind, they gave the placebo effect.

Soldiers would be ...

Alternative Medicine and the Placebo Effect


By: Les Kollegian



Before I go on about what will be dealt with specifically from here on out, I want to say a word on skepticism. Skepticism is not a position, it is a method of inquiry.  It is one which requires whoever is proposing an idea as though it is true, to prove it. You want me to believe your opinion that aliens live with you? Prove it! ...

Placebo Effect


By: Ernie Fitzpatrick



How much of a leap in logic does one have to take in order to see the impact of what this means for a collective consciousness? While there's a BELIEF that bad things coming our way in 2012, the reverse is true as well. Isn't it just sound logic to BELIEVE in GOOD NEWS?



It was in 1955 that H. K. Beecher, head of anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital published ...

The Placebo Effect and Its Health Benefits


By: Kirsten Whittaker



A just released survey of 679 internists and rheumatologists, chosen at random from a national list, reports that more than half of responding physicians used fake medicines - placebos - to treat patients with tough to treat conditions relying on the placebo effect to make them feel better.

These physicians are drawing on information that for a given medical condition, it's not unusual for one-third ...

The Placebo Effect Examined And Studied


By: Sanjib Sarkar



The placebo effect is a mechanism where someone is taking a medicine that contains really nothing. They think the medicine that they are taking helps them to get rid of their ailment. The person automatically becomes better even though the medicine contained no real substance.

Many critics point out that homeopathy works because of the placebo effect. Many homeopathic medicines contain no active substance so any ...