Fake Pill Cures Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Most medical scientists would tell you that there is no cure for IBS. For many, the treatment (or life sentence) is to address the symptoms by:

• excluding fermentable sugars or gluten from your diet
• increasing your consumption of fibrous food
• taking medication or probiotics
• receiving psychological counseling or antidepressants

This is a view with which professor Ted Kaptchuk from Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center would strongly disagree.

In the past eight years, he has done several studies that prove that IBS can be cured naturally.

And what he uses is “fake medicine.”

The history of science is replete with cases where people’s health improved after they were given fake treatments, called placebos. These placebos can be anything from water to sugar pills.

Scientists think that the mere belief that you are getting a treatment is enough to bring about an improvement in some medical conditions, even if the treatment is a placebo, a kind of mind-over-matter phenomenon.

Professor Kaptchuk has taken this a step further, however, by proving that placebos can be effective for some conditions even when patients understand they are receiving fake treatments.

In 2010, he and his colleagues published a study in the journal PLOS ONE in which they gave 80 IBS sufferers either a fake pill or no treatment at all.

They explained to their participants that the pill they were taking was fake, and they even labelled the bottle in which the pills were stored “placebo pills made of an inert substance.”

Notwithstanding all this, the group that received the placebo reported a much bigger improvement in their condition than did those who received no treatment at all.

But 60% of “feeling better” is still too low for my liking.

Here is a simple IBS strategy that completely cures almost everyone who uses it in just a few days – it’s amazing…