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Cull the thousands of prescriptive bits of health promoting advice from popular magazines and folklore; combine them in a pill.
I've been tempted to try a hundred ‘miracle’ treatments for everything from head aches to heart attacks, offered up by everyone and grandad, too. All of it: soup to nuts,
A to Zinc, fine to ugly, and north to south based on claims made by someone ‘miraculously’ returned to health by using a named substance. Just read the list of benefits, glowing testamonials, …
So why not just put a smidgin of all the good stuff into a pill and then relax and wait for the miracle? That way we'll feel nothing but better for a long, long time.
Sceptic's Dictonary: placebo
http://skepdic.com/placebo.html
[jutta, Apr 02 2002]
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More probably, you will feel
horrible for an instant - and
then no more. |
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Queen Mum lived to a 101 on gin and dubonnet.
cheers ma'am. |
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Baked. Every homeopathic medicine that makes it into the gutters is made off-the-chart potent by way of dissolution. Years later, it's back in your drinking water. |
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Are you suggesting that the Queen Mum (Gawd bless 'er) was dissolute? |
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If you put a smidgen of everything in there, nothing is going
to be at a worthwhile concentration, even assuming it has
some potential benefit. |
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Also, the odds are that you'll be allergic to at least one of
the vast number of ingredients. |
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No, [po] is just fine, as far as I know. |
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Rumor even has it that she's really good. |
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