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Fish Oil Could Prevent Psychotic Disorders

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Either you can eat fish as a dish three times a week. Or you may take fish oil supplements. Either way your chances of a full-blown psychotic episode will get diminished. The study group got assessed...

How A Little Caffeine Can Boost Your Memory

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If you’re trying to commit a set of items to memory, you may want to give your brain a bit of caffeine. But how you time it matters, finds a new study out today in Nature Neuroscience. The...
    






Nocebo: The Anti Placebo

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What’s better than taking a sugar pill to make yourself think you’re getting rid of whatever ails you? Well, taking Nocebo to make yourself sick, even when nothing’s wrong with you, of course!

Now for the first time, Nocebo is available for sale direct to the general public! Despite containing no active ingredients whatsoever, Nocebo can cause a wide range of undesirable effects, from nausea to diarrhea, that is because it’s potency lies entirely inside the human brain! Nocebo merely suggests that it is bad for you, your brain and body does the rest!

Yes you can buy it: it’s about $10.

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