Placebo pills can have real effects through the power of suggestions
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It seems that women with premenstrual syndrome seems to take advantage of the placebo effect, even if you are taking the pills, suggesting that it can provide cheap and easy treatment.
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS), anxiety, humor changes and symptoms like abdominal cramps, which usually affects anyone with periods. Previous studies have found that Placebo pill can reduce symptoms Women who think they are taking real medications, but it was not clear when these benefits people know the pills.
Antje Frey Nascimento The University of Switzerland and his colleagues contracted 150 females of 150 years with moderate and serious PMS. 27 PMS achieved symptoms on a scale of 0 and 5, participants made at least 4 or 5 symptoms at the beginning of the study. Participants also reportedly reported that a symptom had his social, work or school life, achieving this fracture 4 or 5 points.
The researchers then randomly allocated two-monthly pills across two menstrual cycles, and told people they were making placebo. Another third of the participants took placeBoque pills, but the placebo received an additional explanation of how symptoms can alleviate the strength and belief.
The rest of the participants were not given placebo, but all groups could take their normal medications. All participants carried out daily surveys in PMS symptoms and how much they interfeducary.
By analyzing the data of the participants’s last menstrual cycle surveys, those who took place without explanation, on average, compared to the intensity of PMS symptoms before taking pills. These symptoms were also half in their lives.
Those who took placebo with an explanation to reduce 79 percent of their symptoms in the intensity of their symptoms and 83% less suspended in their lives. “That’s the important effect you will notice in your life,” says Stefan Schmidt They did not participate in the study at the University of Freiburg.
When people take placebus pills, they are unconsciously and consciously expect relief of the symptoms of the placebo effect; It seems that they create real improvements, such as the release of natural painkillers in the body like endorphines, Schmidt says.
“We live in a pill society, where you swallow, when you get all the benefits of science, people expect to feel better,” he said. Highlighting these potential benefits to people, it seems to improve the effect.
Although the pills have not been taken, the control team saw 33 percent lower in the intensity intensity of the symptoms and were more than before. “Enrollment in a study makes it better feel for the day’s newspapers or pay more notes when the symptoms are better, so they see benefits without taking pills,” Schmidt says.
It is a study limit that has been registered for trials that can be more open to alternative treatments than a wider population and therefore increased the advantages of the placebo effect.
Larger studies should determine whether these polybok benefits are longer and whether they apply to a wider age group or other countries of age, Schmidt says. If the results are studied, Placeebos eventually offer a cheap and easy way to treat an important health burden, he says.
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