Tag: clinical trials
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Placebo effects drive many results
From supplements to surgery, placebo effects explain a startling share of perceived benefits. Here’s how to tell real treatment from expensive expectation.
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The Problem With One-Size-Fits-All Treatments
Standard-of-care medicine works for the average patient and underperforms for the rest. Understanding when to push for personalization is genuinely useful.
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The Placebo Effect Is More Powerful Than People Think
The placebo effect isn’t just imagination. It produces measurable physiological changes, sometimes rivaling real drugs. Here’s what the research actually shows.
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Psychedelic therapy is being overhyped before the data is in
Psilocybin and MDMA show real promise in early trials, but the cultural enthusiasm has run far ahead of the evidence. Caution is still warranted.
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Mega-Dosing Vitamins Can Be Harmful
More isn’t better. High-dose vitamin supplementation has produced documented harms in clinical trials, and several common practices carry real risk.
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Antidepressants don’t work as well as we’ve been told for decades
The marketing said ‘chemical imbalance.’ The trials say something more modest. Antidepressants help some patients meaningfully — and many far less than advertised.