Posted by bleauberry on January 30, 2008, at 19:57:10
In reply to To supplements really help? Or is it placebo?, posted by Deniseuk190466 on January 23, 2008, at 7:52:43
Supplements really do help. Huge. The trick is to find the one that targets whatever individual biochemical flaw you have. Of course, we don't usually know what that flaw is, so it is a guessing game. With the hundreds or thousands of supplements to choose from, it is easy to try bunches and bunches of them but miss the one that is really needed.
People have been amazingly cured with St Johns Wort after failing all kinds of heavy duty drug combinations. The same kinds of amazing accounts have happened with things like magnesium supplements, rhodiola, ginkgo, 5htp, tyrosine+taurine combo, etc. In mercury toxicity there are severe problems with intestinal disorders, food intolerances, chemical sensitivities, and systemic bacterial/fungal infections. Those people find such things as oregeno oil and lechithin to resolve many of their problems quickly. Someone with adrenal/thyroid deficiencies gets strong relief with a microdose of Maca.
I have several shoe boxes full of supplements that did nothing for me or made me worse. Even after doing tons of research to find the exact supplement I need and I can explain exactly why it is going to work for me, well, it doesn't. I was wrong. Once in a great while I find a decent one, purely by trial and error. One example was St Johns Wort. While I experienced about 2 months of being reborn with it, I mean it was wonderful, it pooped out on me. But I guarantee you, those 2 months were not placebo.
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