A study finds that alternative therapies for menopause are useless:
Researchers reviewed 70 randomized controlled trials of alternative treatments and found insufficient scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of any of the commonly used remedies: herbs, mind-body techniques, energy therapies using magnets or electrical nerve stimulation, homeopathy, naturopathy or culturally based non-Western medical treatments.
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Junk science? The providers that have given us railway spine, post hoc ergo propter hoc whiplash and post-traumatic fibromyalgia syndrome want to talk about junk science? Perhaps a helping of the Twinkie defense coupled with a side order of Prozac defense is in order.
Give me the damn estrogen.
Old bag – absolutely. I tried these supplements some years back. Didn’t do a thing for me. Why am I never lucky enough to experience placebo effect?
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