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Non Traditional Medicine
#21
RE: Non Traditional Medicine
(February 16, 2015 at 9:18 pm)Beccs Wrote: First person to mention aromatherapy gets slapped.

Aromatherapy.

Shall I bend over now?
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#22
RE: Non Traditional Medicine
What does the second person get?

Aromatherapy Big Grin
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#23
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I wish I had the time to point out how idiotic a lot of alternative medicine can be, but I have to go soak in my pentacle-shaped bathtub full of iced badger urine while listening to tuned wind chimes with mango slices on my eyes. I've got a hangnail.

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#24
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I got two phrases for alternative medicine, prayer and religion. Ready:

Placebo effect
Confirmation bias
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#25
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(February 15, 2015 at 2:24 pm)polar bear Wrote: Last December, I switched to being a vegetarian. I have felt a lot better for it. I am sure there is more than just that. If anyone has any ideas our experiences I sure would like to hear them

I ate a rack of baby back ribs for dinner tonight. Fucking scrumptious. That's my recent relevant experience.
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#26
RE: Non Traditional Medicine
(February 19, 2015 at 5:03 am)robvalue Wrote: I got two phrases for alternative medicine, prayer and religion. Ready:

Placebo effect
Confirmation bias

How about "new and as yet untested modalities?"
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
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#27
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No, it's just the way I'm walking :p
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#28
RE: Non Traditional Medicine
(February 19, 2015 at 5:28 am)robvalue Wrote: No, it's just the way I'm walking :p

Good one
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
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#29
RE: Non Traditional Medicine
Prevention is better than cure.

9x out of 10 of people stay healthy (eat good and excessive often), the number of days you'll spend incapacitated due to ill health in your life will be far fewer than those who don't do any of that.

It's basic advice, but rather than reach for the homeopathy bottle, try reaching for the apple instead, or going for a walk.

As to whether bacteria can cause schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, there appears to be a lot of speculation but little in the way of hard evidence.
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#30
RE: Non Traditional Medicine
I ran across a man who saw a connection between Hog's Feed and Curing Mental disorder... Mainly Bipolar 1-2. It seemed interesting and it all started by a Mormon man who had NO degree's in Mental health. At first, I was like.... huh... this man might have something here but once you dug deeper into the video it started to become more and more of a bunch of bull. They interviewed people who had professions in that area of science and most of them agreed it was weird and not proven (obviously) yet there were people who tried it and it worked. He then formulated it into a human form with a bizzilion of pills a day to treat the Bipolar condition. I now see him as a total quack after looking over it... I class it next to those "alternative therapies" to quit smoking. I am suprised that they can sell this kind of jargon in the stores.

Funny enough this particular treatment (hogs feed formulation) ended up on quack watch.

I can see a *few* alternative therapies combined with modern medicine to help but as a cure all? no not at all.
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