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Placebo effects are very real and any drugs efficacy will include some placebo effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Placebo-controlled_studies https://

• Ididntdothis 7y ago
  That’s another thing I wonder about. What’s so wrong about the placebo effect? If it makes people feel better we should embrace it. I think a lot of things like yoga work because they are done in positive environments by positive people. Whereas a lot of regular medicine is performed in pretty negative circumstances. So the same treatment may not work in a doctors office but it may work in a yoga studio.
  • Smoosh 7y ago
    The problem isn't the placebo effect per se. Nor with it's application as a treatment. It's with misleading people as to what is actually helping them. For example selling magical crystals to adjust your aura. I don't know about studies and evidence specific to yoga, but would suspect it's benefits are a combination of real and placebo. Thus it isn't all placebo effect as there is a foundation of actual therapeutic benefit.