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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zand" data-source="post: 1265035" data-attributes="member: 85197">I used to have absolute faith in modern medicine.  I was prescribed a drug and treatment that didn't work.  I looked elsewhere, to supplements.  They worked.  Now surely the placebo effect would have worked with the modern medicine if I was the sort of person susceptible to it?  I had no faith in the supplements at the time, it was just a desperate last ditch attempt to get help.  Also if someone is deficient in a particular mineral or vitamin then it makes sense that supplements will help.  Modern medicine often doesn't look at this aspect at all, let alone thinking of actually testing for deficiencies.  I had to pay privately for tests to prove that my thyroid was underactive, and that I had a vit D and B12 deficiency.  I wouldn't even had guessed that this was what was wrong with me had it not been for a naturopath.Both modern medicine and alternative medicine are useful.  To me, the only science that matters is if my health improves or not.</blockquote>

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