Tag Archives: evidence-based medicine
Why clinicians, general practitioners and other therapists hesitate to use psychosomatic insights
Therapists often believe that psychosocial factors play a causal role in the etiology of psychosomatic syndromes, such as psoriasis, stomach ulcers, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, bowel syndrome or migraines. But for decades, all attempts at confirming such causation
Hormesis: umbrella mechanism only for agents present in the environment
Hormesis is a concept of biphasic dose-response to toxicological and pharmacological stimuli. According to this concept, a harmful factor at a small dose can exert a beneficial action. Among the known hormetic agents are numerous chemical substances
