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[Kinesis]

How do you know it's not the placebo effect?

[pamojja]

How do you know it's not the placebo effect?

 

In my case that's easy. Because having been diagnosed a PAD 8 years ago due to a 80% blockage at my abdominal aorta bifurcation and only 300-400 meter pain free walking distance. Where the diagnosing cardiologist said, 'however much greens I would add to my diet, additional to the pharmaceutical and surgical interventions they recommend, my 5-year mortality would remain at 30%'.

 

I refused their intervention (after following 4 months their only 2 recommended life-style changes - smoking cessation and walking exercise - made it much worse only), changed my diet, started slowly with comprehensive supplementation. And once I reached the therapeutic dose of vitamin C Linus Pauling recommends for CVD - 6 gd - after 1 year could walk 1 hour again. 2 hours he second year, 1/2 hr the third due to an additional chronic bronchitis, then improving again until I didn't get the PAD specific pains in my legs from walking anymore after the 6th year.
 

Meanwhile got a 60% government-certified walking-disability revoked due to this improvement. For skeptics there will be never be enough proof. For patients with a mercilessly deteriorating chronic disease with no cure (by conventional medicine) that skepticism simply doesn't matters. If the placebo-effect could be that strong, fine with any terminally ill, and me.

 

Though stopping vitamin C for a few days does indeed bring back the PAD specific leg pain. What a wonderful placebo.