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...fight-or-flight response." With meditation, heart rate, respiration and brain waves slow down, muscles relax and the effects of epinephrine and other stress-related hormones diminish. Studies have shown that by routinely eliciting this "relaxation response," 75% of insomniacs begin to sleep normally, 35% of infertile women become pregnant and 34% of chronic-pain sufferers reduce their use of painkilling drugs...
...pathways are the basis for the renowned and powerful "placebo effect." Decades of research show that if a patient truly believes a therapy is useful--even if it is a sugar pill or snake oil--that belief has the power to heal. In one classic 1950 study, for instance, pregnant women suffering from severe morning sickness were given syrup of ipecac, which induces vomiting, and told it was a powerful new cure for nausea. Amazingly, the women ceased vomiting. "Most of the history of medicine is the history of the placebo effect," observes Benson in Timeless Healing...
...GELDOF. Not so long ago, he was beating big odds and bigger egos to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief. Now he's just another celebrity with an absurd divorce settlement. PAULA YATES, Geldof's flamboyant wife of 10 years and the mother of his three children, is pregnant with the child of Michael Hutchence, lead singer of INXS. After bitter feuds over who would get what, it was decided that for now Yates would move back into Geldof's home and Geldof into Hutchence's. (The obvious solution, really.) Summoning up dignity outside of court, Geldof said, "There...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Maybe the old wives were right all along. Scientists thought they had debunked the myth that douching could keep a woman from getting pregnant, but a new government study says the practice can reduce fertility by as much as 50 percent. Published in the American Journal of Public Health, the study of 840 women reported that women who douched most often had the lowest pregnancy rate: 27 percent had not conceived after a year compared to just 10 percent of women who never or rarely douched. The practice is still very common even though doctors have long believed...
Another alumna expressed her most negative experience in cryptic terms: "1st time sex got pregnant...