Researching Wellness
Mary at CRON Diary has a rave about researching wellness.
You cannot really do double blind controlled studies on wellness. Wellness is about maintaining a balanced and highly functioning body. It’s not about taking a sick person and giving them a vitamin to see if they get well, which seems to be the way most studies are conducted on vitamins. You can’t do a wellness placebo. There will be no “gold standard”. Wellness research is going to have to be about population studies and actually understanding the details of how the human body works through tools like microarray testing. Doctors and researchers that continue to devalue wellness because there is no “valid” research just don’t get it.
She proposes a HIN, the opposite of the NIH, to fund “research by people who have ideas that are not aligned with conventional medical thinking - like the one on an infectious basis for rheumatoid arthritis.”
Works for me.
