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Mechanistically, placebo can only work on psychosomatic symptoms. There isn't any magic going on. If the problem is in your head, then thoughts can maybe help.
by ouid 5y ago
Mechanistically, placebo can only work on psychosomatic symptoms. There isn't any magic going on. If the problem is in your head, then thoughts can maybe help.
- dpark 5y agoYour head largely controls the rest of your body. If you take a placebo that you expect to make you angry, your levels of adrenaline will likely rise. There are all sorts of measurable, physiological changes that can be induced by placebo.
- sheinsheish 5y agoPlease reconsider after having a look on Joe Dispenza’s book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18051504-you-are-the-placebo https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18051504-you-are-the-pla... At least consider the possibility that maybe (maybe = 10-50% chance?) there can be magic in our heads & bodies.
- ouid 5y agono
- baq 5y agoThe world you see, touch, hear, smell and taste exists only in your head.
- mmastrac 5y agoThe recent paper on brain memory in immune response suggests this is no longer common wisdom. We just don't know. Evolution twists a lot of random wires together.