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• leex5430 commented on Phiten: Powerful or Placebo?
  This is an interesting topic. A placebo is an inactive "look-alike" treatment because there is no medicine invloved in the tratment. Once, I have heard that the placebo tratment could be very useful because that doesn't directly affect the illness being treated compared to any other type of therapy. Personally, I would probably use the placebo treatment if I could get a positive result....
• galva034 commented on Phiten: Powerful or Placebo?
  I totally agree that these bracelets are bunk (so are the metallic ones that supposedly increase your circulation). How is it possible that a titanium-water resistant band is going to help increase your endurance, when it's your own brain that's forcing all the work to be done.. Perhaps they should invest in making headbands like this to at least "help" give your brain some credit for all the work it does. It's unfortunately a cheap "get rich quick scheme" that is praying on desperate people....
• robe0792 commented on Self-Control - Nature or Nurture?
  I do believe that drug abuse is primarily at the nurture end of the spectrum with a small bit of nature involved. I look at it as if individuals do have some addictive trait in their genes that may serve as the spark in the equation but I also consider the environmental factors and to me they seem more relevant. I believe that everyone has the capability to get addicted. In the right situation and correct environmental factors, I think that this is when one may be the most prone to establishing an addiction. I think one having an addiction...
• wlas0006 commented on Self-Control - Nature or Nurture?
  Yes, drug addiction and mental illness are often found together and there is now substantial evidence that both are heritable conditions. This should not be surprising since variations in genetic makeup from person to person should explain part of the reason why some people become addicted to drugs and others in the same situations (like siblings) do not. Saying this, finding the specific sets of genes that are responsible remains elusive. We would like to think of human biology like a machine that can be fixed or tuned to perform in a certain way, but I am not sure that...