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41. Is Rainy Day Joint Pain All in Your Head?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Is Vitamin C a Good Treatment for Colds?

Vitamin c actually is vasodilatory. So people feel the physiologic fact, so they assume it it works more. Colds are the perfect therapy for any sort of treatment because they get better on their own. There's no evidence that 98 point six is the average human body temperature.

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