[the-pigeon]

Also if it works it works. I think people worry too much about a solution being a placebo.

Yes, it may be that your solution only worked because you believed it would work. But take the win!

Certainly solutions backed by double blind controlled studied are way better. But those often aren't an option, so use what is.

[Latty]

This is only true insofar as the "solution" doesn't cause other problems itself.

People bankrupting themselves on snake oil, or having other health issues due to weird diets, or avoiding actually proven medicine are all extremely harmful.

[amluto]

For a disease with highly temporally variable symptoms, you don’t even need a placebo effect. You could try some treatment and randomly get better. (Go read about almost any Crohn’s RCT for which the participants had active flares. The control group generally improves a decent amount over the course of the study.)