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:I was thinking maybe hypnotherapy... --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 12:48, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 
:I was thinking maybe hypnotherapy... --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 12:48, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
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:: the only legitimate thing I could think of is to get the control group to use various forms of cardiovascular exercise to get a few measurable statistics (like heart rate, perspiration, respiration, blood pressure, etc) to be roughly equivalent to those experienced by the experimental group, then the experiment would be to show MOSTLY whatever else sex does (hormones, psychological stimulation, etc), if cancer susceptibility was shown to be lower in the experimental group, it MIGHT have some validity... it would be a fairly complex set of requirements to design and especially hard to control for things like sexual preference(s), but I could imagine a well-designed study being able to show a few things -- [[User:Brettpeirce|Brettpeirce]] ([[User talk:Brettpeirce|talk]]) 14:42, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
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:: the only legitimate thing I could think of is to get the control group to use various forms of cardiovascular exercise to get a few measurable statistics (like heart rate, perspiration, respiration, blood pressure, etc) to be roughly equivalent to those experienced by the experimental group, then the experiment would be to show MOSTLY whatever else sex does (hormones, psychological stimulation, etc), if cancer susceptibility was shown to be lower in the experimental group, it MIGHT have some validity... it would be a fairly complex thing set of requirements and especially hard to control for things like sexual preference, but I could imagine a well designed study being able to show a few things -- [[User:Brettpeirce|Brettpeirce]] ([[User talk:Brettpeirce|talk]]) 14:42, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
  
 
When I was diagnosed with accute hypochondria and then suffered a number of psychosomatic injuries, those sugar pills actually saved my life! <!-- Joke! --> [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.245|141.101.98.245]] 12:55, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 
When I was diagnosed with accute hypochondria and then suffered a number of psychosomatic injuries, those sugar pills actually saved my life! <!-- Joke! --> [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.245|141.101.98.245]] 12:55, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

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