The placebo effect has intrigued me ever since we were told about it by a science teacher in school.
It’s basic premise, was that if you gave someone a sugar pill and told them it would cure them, it somehow would.
Without questioning why pharmaceutical manufacturers would produce anything except sugar pill placebos if it was indeed true, it seemed more like ideology than empirical science, and they had no empirical explanation for it.
It was pure imagination, masquerading as science - pseudoscience!
So it is something I’ve always kept in the back of my mind since I was young. To look out for evidence of its existence, or evidence of a mechanism for it, that has nothing to do with the imaginations of psychiatrists.
And I believe I’ve found it.
With my long history of adverse events to medical devices over 38 years, I’ve spent a lot of time speaking with specialists who are medical researchers around the world, which put me in the perfect position to solve this problem.
After a titanium alloy implant and Cortoss PMMA bone cement was put in my lower back in 2019, it caused an adverse event. Bone cement implantation syndrome seems to be the leading diagnosis. The titanium alloy implant was removed in 2020, which cured the titanium allergy symptoms I also suffered with my first implant allergy.
The symptoms that remained were a mixture of cardiac issues and a severe hypersensitivity. So severe, that I became allergic to everything and my face, tongue, and throat would swell up. At times my oxygen saturation dropped so low that I passed out for hours.
But it also made me severely hypersensitive to all emf/emr, including that of sunlight and of people.
Being sensitive to the emf of people, is being sensitive to their consciousness or aura.
I could feel that when meeting someone there would be a raise in my adrenaline and I felt better.
With people we have known all our lives however, there isn’t that same increase in adrenaline when we meet with them. We have become used to their presence over time, so our metabolism no longer alerts us to their presence because there isn’t the threat of any potential danger. They are our tribe.
In 2020, a woman I didn’t know very well, who was an energy healer, was keen to do some experiments with me on raising my adrenaline to improve my symptoms. With great success in person, the phenomenon even worked over text messages.
She was able to improve my symptoms, by purposely raising my adrenaline with text messages from a distance.
Eventually we shifted to connecting directly through the ether to test that out too. As I said, she was an energy healer and as I was highly sensitive to the emf of people, it made it second nature to me.
There are many different metabolic chemicals involved in adrenaline. I’ve just used the term here how a patient would understand it.
When we get a severe hypersensitivity reaction to everything, our tryptase levels rise. This is the main test used for mast cell degranulation consistent with anaphylaxis.
When our tryptase levels lower, we become less sensitive to the environment, and when they raise we become more sensitive to the environment. So when I say that meeting a stranger made my adrenaline rise, I’m meaning it made my tryptase levels fall, which made me less hypersensitive to the environment, and my symptoms improved.
Flirting, is a very powerful way to lower someone’s tryptase levels because it raises their adrenaline and lowers tryptase, perhaps love is a better term.
Now just imagine going to see your doctor. Your appointments are a maximum of 15 minutes and you only see them every few months. You don’t know them intimately, so each time you visit them your adrenaline and theirs, will naturally rise, lowering your tryptase making you lest sensitive to the environment and you feel better.
How many times have you gone to the doctor, only to find that your symptoms disappear once in their presence?
It’s because when humans connect, there is a mutual raising of adrenaline and lowering of tryptase making us feel better.
I’ve often told the chronically ill to go hug a stranger as they will get the biggest adrenaline rush and feel better. Some have taken that advice with great success. Unfortunately, the effect is not permanent.
This is all the placebo effect is. It is excitement, it is the natural lowering of our tryptase levels when we engage with someone we don’t know so well.
It is nothing to do with psychiatry, yet they have tried to claim it without evidence.
The placebo effect is not evidence that we can cure our disease with our mind, although it can temporarily improve symptoms significantly.
It can be a very good skill to know if you are waiting for surgery or dentistry to remove the cause of your disease. Some may not make it to surgery at all because they are so sick, but if they employ the lessons of the placebo effect, it will buy them the time they need.
The placebo effect is a metabolic process that can be manipulated for our benefit, it is not a psychiatric process at all.
If you want to improve your health symptoms and feel better - go hug a stranger.
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