One of the problems with helping people naturopathically is that they take the wrong brand of supplement, or wrong dosage, or wrong quality/quantity of main ingredient, or not long enough for it to take effect, or on haphazard schedule … or one of several different reasons that prompt people to prematurely/unfairly say “it didn’t work.”

Sometimes people make the opposite mistake and think something worked from the alternative field when it didn’t. What are some of these possible errors?

1. the disease ran its natural course
2. the disease is cyclical, with ups and downs, and the “cure” coincided with a cyclical downturn
3. the placebo effect may have been responsible
4. the original prognosis/diagnosis may have been wrong (for which they took the supplement)
5. a temporary mood improvement may be confused with cure
6. people who hedge their bets by doing multiple things may credit the wrong thing
7. psychological needs can distort what people perceive

next time someone said a supplement didn’t work, or worked, better step through these possibilities in your mind.