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I have a question about the use of placebos in medicine. If I want to buy a supplement in the UK - say - vitamin C, by law it will have a list of all the ingredients on the bottle - active ingredients, fillers, excipients, inactive ingredients etc. I can look them up and research what I'm...

I would always suggest that you make sure your vitamins and minerals are at optimal levels before having planned surgery, particularly iron/ferritin, Vitamin B12 and folate. Severe Neurologic Deficit after Nitrous Oxide Anesthesia | Anesthesiology | American Society of Anesthesiologists Folate...

There is a supplement I take called NAC i.e. N-Acetyl-Cysteine. I read somewhere that it has been available without prescription since the 1960s. It helps a lot of people with severe lung problems. As an ex-heavy smoker I've been using it for about 9 years and it helps to keep my lungs...

I have similar feelings on the subject of supplements although, with a few rare exceptions, I tend to stick to vitamins and minerals. I've decided against trying L-Carnitine though, because of this comment : Source : https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1026/l-carnitine

That doesn't surprise me. I usually see it on various forums where the occasional oddball turns up.

There was more to my problem than anything diet-related. I'd lost 21 lbs in about three weeks because I was so very ill.

The man is being a bastard, dangling a carrot in front of sick people, without saying where to get the carrots from.

Link : https://theferret.scot/claim-100000-have-long-covid-mostly-true/ Article continues...

Regarding anxiety and depression in children... A personal anecdote. I had major surgery in the first half of the 1970s. I'd been extremely severely ill for a month before the doctors decided there really was something wrong with me and operated on me. After I recovered sufficiently I was...

I don't think so. I think in the UK (for boosters) it is just a month.

They probably did but I got the impression when he came home that it hadn't convinced him. He was still annoyed about it this evening!

It has already been more than a month since he had his last positive Covid test, and he's registered nearly every test he's had done with test and trace, positive or negative, whether they were lateral flow and done at home or PCR and sent away.

My husband was really furious today. He'd been through all the rules about when boosters can be given, worked out the exact date that he thought he was eligible, changed his plans for today to fit it in - only to be told he'd got the date wrong and he was too early and can't have his booster...

I thought I would be able to watch this on Catch-up - I'm almost always cooking at 7.30pm. Guess what? It isn't available.

From the above link : No we aren't. Medicine is treating fewer and fewer people. We are living in an age of BPS repetition which wastes hundreds of thousands of pounds, probably millions of pounds, of research money that could be used for more sensible purposes. There are the billions being...

To any statisticians out there... Does this sequence of words make any sense at all? If any correlation is non-significant then there isn't a correlation. Is there?

Oh, sorry. I guessed wrong then.

Someone on a different forum had received an email about this program and posted it. I'm not sure of source but I assume it is from the Disability News Service website:

Look at all the words in quotes. They want to use words with the meaning decided by the authors, not by a dictionary. Once you've started doing that you can distort the language any way you want. “stress” [twice] “split-second learning.” “re-playing” “dis-ease.” “freeze-like” “split-second...