PLACEBO EFFECT: THE SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF THE POWER O
F FAITH." The world is mental" Caiballion – Hermes trismeg
istoThe placebo effect is an improvement of psychological origin and consists of the power of the mind or faith as a way of recovering diseases of the most varied, where it is usually used as a suggestion factor a remedy without any active drug principle, although the patient believes that there is an active substance in the drug. This improvement is around thirty percent in physical illnesses and can pass seventy percent in psychological diseases. Most drugs approved by the FDA (Federal Drug Admistration) of the United States use as a technique to prove the efficacy of the active substance of the drug proof against the placebo effect, which has no active substance. Typically, only one or two percent of above-placebo effect is sufficient for this remedy to be approved for human use, often with huge side effects for human health.
This proves that healing is already within people, and that for this process to be triggered it is only necessary that he "believes" that he is being healed. It is the complete proof of the power of faith, which the master Jesus so much preached, when he said that it was the faith of the people who healed it.
The nocebo effect, has the same connotation, only inversely: the remedy has the active principle, but the doctor in recommending it gives the understanding that does not believe in the effectiveness of the remedy so it does not have significant effect, because the power of faith does not come into action, that is, there is no placebo effect.
Have you thought about the amount of medicine you have already taken, generating various side effects, which lead to new diseases and, consequently, to new remedies, in an endless vicious circle, where the actual effect of the drug, the active principle, was or two percent and the rest of the effect, much greater was just function of your own mind. How much health and how much money was thrown away.
She could be a Michael Moore – the controversial filmmaker who chose the pharmaceutical industry as the target of his next film – in skirts. American Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical University's School of Social Medicine, has become an increasingly heard voice by the prestigious and respected media in attacks on america's most lucrative industry in recent decades.
His most recent book was receptive to American public opinion, but it resonated even more after the Vioxx scandal, the drug taken off the shelves of pharmacies around the world for relating the prolonged use of anti-inflammatory drugs to the higher incidence of heart attack.
Angell decided to describe what she followed as the former editor-in-chief of the medical journal The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the bibles in the world of health, in which she worked for more than 20 years. She has seen the global pharmaceutical industry transform into what she calls "marketing machines," shifting from the original focus: discovering, industrializing and selling drugs at reasonable prices.
In her book "The Truth About The Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us And What To Do About It", Angell says that all the paraphernalia assembled by the pharmaceutical industry has induced Americans to consume more medicine than necessary and pay for them the most expensive price in the world. The U.S. spends $200 billion a year on drugs, half of which is consumed globally.
After the Vioxx problem arose, Angell began to primarily attack the role of the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), the U.S. food and drug inspection agency, a correction paradigm for many nations. For Angell, the agency didn't act the way it should. "Years before Merck took Vioxx off the market, the FDA was already aware of strong evidence that the drug increased the risk of heart attacks, but did not insist that the company program a large-scale clinical trial to clarify doubts," Angell said in an interview with Valor. "The main lesson of the Vioxx case is that it proves to what extent the FDA was captured by the industry it was supposed to control."
According to Angell, the FDA is approving drugs more and more quickly and "with less and less evidence of efficacy." It understands that the FDA does not fulfill the task of ensuring that the drugs are reasonably safe – either before or after the market launch.
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In her book "The Truth About The Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us And What To Do About It", Angell says that all the paraphernalia assembled by the pharmaceutical industry has induced Americans to consume more medicine than necessary and pay for them the most expensive price in the world. The U.S. spends $200 billion a year on drugs, half of which is consumed globally.
According to Angell, the FDA is approving drugs more and more quickly, depending on the financial interests of the laboratories it should control and not the health of the people it has the task of protecting. The FDA in Brazil is seen as a serious regulatory body, but it is not this because it is funded by the industry it is supposed to control. The Democratic Party of the United States has already tried to change this legislation, still to no avail.
