The placebo is Best, and the Drug Companies are scared.

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From Dr Mercola's site.

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There is a new "product" on the market that is absolutely free to you and is giving drug companies a run for their money. It's called the placebo effect … and it often works better than top pharmaceutical drugs.

As Wired Magazine reported:

"From 2001 to 2006, the percentage of new products cut from development after Phase II clinical trials, when drugs are first tested against placebo, rose by 20 percent. The failure rate in more extensive Phase III trials increased by 11 percent, mainly due to surprisingly poor showings against placebo.

Despite historic levels of industry investment in R & D, the US Food and Drug Administration approved only 19 first-of-their-kind remedies in 2007—the fewest since 1983—and just 24 in 2008. Half of all drugs that fail in late-stage trials drop out of the pipeline due to their inability to beat sugar pills."

They continue:

"Some products that have been on the market for decades, like Prozac, are faltering in more recent follow-up tests. In many cases, these are the compounds that, in the late '90s, made Big Pharma more profitable than Big Oil. But if these same drugs were vetted now, the FDA might not approve some of them.

It's not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It's as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger.

The fact that an increasing number of medications are unable to beat sugar pills has thrown the industry into crisis."

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And Dummy pills are better than Proxac:

To test products internally, pharmaceutical companies routinely run trials in which a long-established medication and an experimental one compete against each other as well as against a placebo. As head of Lilly's early-stage psychiatric drug development in the late '90s, Potter saw that even durable warhorses like Prozac, which had been on the market for years, were being overtaken by dummy pills in more recent tests. The company's next-generation antidepressants were faring badly, too, doing no better than placebo in seven out of 10 trials.

Ironically, Big Pharma's attempt to dominate the central nervous system has ended up revealing how powerful the brain really is. The placebo response doesn't care if the catalyst for healing is a triumph of pharmacology, a compassionate therapist, or a syringe of salt water. All it requires is a reasonable expectation of getting better. That's potent medicineRead More http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=3#ixzz0m2fHGvvC

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It turns out that even fake surgery can be very effective for some conditions and make real alterations in the brain. So think yourself well and it can happen.

I still reckon I can recover from PSSD. Along with good health and exercise, I'm going down the mindfulness - meditaion route to find real peace, happiness, bliss, love, and eventual healing from PSSD. And if I have to become a Buddhist I will because nothing is going to stop me. Anyway, I've always wanted to get between the sheets with Lindy, a beautiful buddhist girl adore. Wow, is she gorgeous.

Kaivey