There is another explanation ...

"The women using such treatments overall were 20 percent less likely to get pregnant than those who did not, according to researchers Dr. Jacky Boivin, of Cardiff University, and Dr. Lone Schmidt, from the University of Copenhagen."


This can also be explained by a simple fact:

Women who have bad experiences with Mainstream Medicine are more likely to turn toward Alternatives then those who have good experiences and who are more healthy.

This is a fact.


"In the Danish study, the women most likely to try complementary therapies also tended to have a worse prognosis. But even after adjusting for this difference, Boivin said, a discrepancy in the pregnancy rates remained. All of the women in the study were from a similar socio-economic background."

How accurate is the adjustment for the difference?



Women suffering from chronic symptoms that are not helped by Mainstream Medicine are more likely to turn toward Alternatives.

But, those women are also less healthy then women who have had success with Mainstream Medicine... in other words ... there are other factors hidden ...




"Those women who are more prone to stress and have more health problems are more likely to try complementary medicine," he said. "So complementary medicine could only be a marker, and not the cause, of stress or lower success rates." Ernst said similar results had been found in looking at the use of alternative therapies in cancer patients.

Experts agreed the lack of data remained a problem. "Anything could have a positive or negative effect," Braverman said. "But without the evidence, we have to be cautious."




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