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I just used it as an umbrella term. That you chose to associate it with "woo" exactly illustrate my point about reflexive dismissal.

I'm talking about things like high-dose vitamins, some medicinal plants, various therapies like cold exposure, etc. Nothing unscientific or mystical about them, just that, as with other chronic ailments, doctors are not trained or knowledgeable on, for the most part.

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>Nothing unscientific or mystical about them

Do those things have any reputable evidence behind them?

That takes time, interest from the medical community, and expensive studies. People with a chronic and unrecognized condition don't have that luxury.

But actually, yes, some of them have, maybe not for this particular condition, but one can make reasonable inferences that some are worth trying. And anecdotes have value too.

Okay so no evidence, got it.

>And anecdotes have value too.

No, they do not.

They can have value to an invidiual, not everything can or has to be science, and remember this is about an area that lacks any science, not even recognized by doctors.

>this is about an area that lacks any science

Incorrect. An absence of evidence is not the same thing as an absence of science.

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