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Connecting this hormone with the 500 calorie a day diet gives a better weight loss, that somehow it's a superior thing than just trying to take in less calories? >> well, whenever you give someone a shot, it has a tremendous placebo effect. in other words, people think it's going to do something, but it's really the 500 calorie a day diet which doesn't have enough protein that is the thing that works and makes you lose weight. when you go on an inadequate diet, your body responds. it produces adrenaline, it produces other hormones that make you feel invigorated. now this may initially seem ver...

Claims every week this summer. unemployment is still stuck at 9.5%. what happened to the summer of recovery? nancy skinner is a syndicated talk show host and she is my guest. maybe it was what p.r. blunder, maybe they genuinely believed it. they dubbed this the summer much recovery and now, you see these hideous numbers. >> it's like mission accomplished. but i have got to say we are talking about a lot of double dip recession possibilities. i think something like a reverse placebo effect. people are bashing the economy, it's so bad, the unemployment numbers, the housing numbers. that does hav...

Information, what you gave, that is a a placebo effect and 12,000, that is not science, how about 12,000 people who thought it didn't work and never e-mailed into the web site? they don't have any -- the studies they've done, they sponsored themselves, and it is completely biased, and they don't have actual science behind it and have not done a peer reviewed trial and, where a bunch of doctors overlook it and say, hey, this is science or isn't. and i would not recommend this for anyone and my personal opinion, i wouldn't use them. >> julie: really? you are comparing them to a running shoe, now...

>> senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me now from washington. elizabeth this seems to be a very real problem for women like cindy there. so why -- why did this panel vote against the drug's approval? >> they said, don, that the data just wasn't there. they said in the studies on average, women like cindy who took the pill had one more sexually satisfying event. that was the scientific term, per month than when they didn't take it. they said one more sexually satisfying event per month might have been a placebo effect and the drug had a side effect. some women felt dizzy or naus...

You and i talked about it last hour opinion olympic favorite skier. she has an issue, but she has a cure. >> do you think there's going to be a run on that austrian cheese, topfen. >> apparently it's hard to get in the u.s. >> reporter: we better find a way to get it. because this has got a miracle cure. or is it, perhaps, the fact, kyra, that lindsey hasn't been on the slopes for a while because of the weather. yeah, she's apparently been rubbing in austrian cheese on her injuried shin. a badly bruised right shin. she says, you know, if it is working, it's working. something's happening, beca...