{"id":1438,"date":"2012-09-12T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2012-09-12T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:51:54","slug":"i-dont-care-if-it-is-the-placebo-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/12\/i-dont-care-if-it-is-the-placebo-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t care if it is the placebo effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acupuncture works, one way or another<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/11\/health\/health-acupuncture\/index.html?hpt=hp_bn12\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/11\/health\/health-acupuncture\/index.html?hpt=hp_bn12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have had bad feet for quite a few months this year (plantar fasciitis) and was persuaded to go to an acupuncturist after my wife had successful results treating her shoulders (after nearly a decade of useless treatment, she is nearly cured after a handful of needle visits).  I am very happy to report that after just a few sessions I am finally able to go on long walks and even jog again.  A huge change from being so crippled by pain each morning that it took 5 minutes of stretching just to walk without tears coming to my eyes.  Based on what I have read, modern science has no good explanation for why this would work, other than the placebo effect.  Well, as I have mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/04\/the-power-of-the-placebo\/\">before<\/a>, the &#8216;placebo&#8217; effect is actually real and quite measurable.  People&#8217;s brain chemistry changes, swelling goes down and measurable physiological effects are observed.  All with stuff with no drugs (and even when people are told they are getting a placebo).  As such, I don&#8217;t care if it really &#8220;doesn&#8217;t work&#8221; because it works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acupuncture works, one way or another http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/11\/health\/health-acupuncture\/index.html?hpt=hp_bn12 I have had bad feet for quite a few months this year (plantar fasciitis) and was persuaded to go to an acupuncturist after my wife had successful results treating her shoulders (after nearly a decade of useless treatment, she is nearly cured after a handful of needle visits). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/12\/i-dont-care-if-it-is-the-placebo-effect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I don&#8217;t care if it is the placebo effect&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-psychology","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}