Older Americans Are ‘Hooked’ on Vitamins

Re:Older Americans Are ‘Hooked’ on Vitamins by benpiper on Friday April 06, 2018 @11:05AM (#16773775)

Great points. The very existence of the placebo effect proves that "inert" substances do, in fact, work for some people, even if the effect is purely psychological.

Some vitamins do work for some people. And science is about finding what works.

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Re:Older Americans Are ‘Hooked’ on Vitamins by blacksmith_tb on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:55PM (#16776228)

Not "purely" psychological though - that would be a delusion, which we presumably don't consider 'working'. Perhaps it would better to say that while the effect is somatic, the cause is psychological?

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Re:Older Americans Are ‘Hooked’ on Vitamins by benpiper on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @02:08PM (#16803597)

It could be either.

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