I think the placebo effect is amazing. It's real, and gives evidence to the power of the mind and body to heal itself with nothing but positive thought.
Of course, it's real. That's why there is such a thing as the placebo effect, dummy. However, the power of our expectations can only alter our perception of symptoms to some extent. It cannot HEAL the body like the examples mentioned in the video such as shrinking mass caused by metastatic cancer or growing a limb. And no, the placebo effect is not a simple mind-over-matter thing. Place effects can only happen through the use of a placebo, an inert treatment like a sugar pill. Positive thoughts, alone, will and can not cause placebo effects.
+Eugene Khutoryansky Fun fact: As cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton points out in his book... Of the protein receptors on the membrane of your cells, only 10% of them respond to chemical stimuli (pills), the other 90% respond to all other types of energetic stimuli (your thoughts being one). Surely meds can help is some cases, however a positive mindset can have tremendous healing power, even on a cellular level. This is an over simplification and I encourage those interested to check out the audio book "The Wisdom of Your Cells" for more details. He also has some youtube videos you could check out. Eat that Rx industry! Just you try and figure out how to make money off my thoughts!!
+iamihop You are wrong and have provided no information to refute my citation, which oversimplified as it is, is sharply, factually correct. If our cells respond solely to chemical stimuli period, explain to me phototransduction. how are the cells in our eyes able to interact with light (visible electromagnetic radiation) and in turn make an image in our brain? Citing a few secondary sourced articles coupled with name calling does little to support your argument. Your ad hominim attack on Lipton is unfounded. He studied his field for decades and his knowledge of the biology of cells is unquestioned in his field. What gets challenged are his claims beyond cells and the grand conclusions he draws from them. I wont argue further about intracellular transduction nor will I take on debate about the electrical pulses between synapses, but I would suggest you look into Lipton, because he doesn't misrepresent these processes. I am a philosopher and not so much a scientist, but I will suggest the thing we may have in common is critical thinking skills. Based of the results of placebo studies, the idea of our thoughts affecting our biology is not as far fetched as you suggest and perhaps there is a complex mechanics behind it. And to your statement about spreading bullshit on yt, What's bullshit is the stranglehold Rx companies have on the American psyche. Often when someone mentions anything about an "alternative" (other than pills) treatment there's a certain stigma attached to it. It's this stigma that is directly related to holding back research in many different types of treatment and areas of science. Placebo studies show that there's so much more to healing disease than popping pills. It turns out that our thoughts do have tremendous healing power. Working in a hospital for years, I've seen it. I remember reading an article about a study that demonstrated how a persons mindset can lead to improved or poorer health within a hospital setting. I think it's the same principle involved in the placebo effect, your thoughts. Finally, you don't want to put cow dung directly on your garden. It's best to first compost it with other ingredients at a ratio of 30:1 carbon to nitrogen.
I'm no neurologist, but from what I know the brain passes information through it's neurons via an electrical-chemical-electrical response. So when we take a pill and it passes through our blood-brain barrier the chemicals trigger the neurons to generate a corresponding electrical signal that will in turn release the desired neurotransmitters to the next neuron, and so on, and so forth. The thing is I don't think our brain can differentiate one chemical from another. Only which receptor a molecule fits into. So as long as we believe the molecules in the pill we're taking will do what we were told they will and they fit into the receptor, they are more, well "receptive", to receiving them.
iamihop I really enjoyed reading that conversation. Always interested to hear discussions on these topics even if it may be a slighty heated exchange. Though "slightly heated" feels like an overstatment to me.
I totally fell in love with the placebo effect when studying the medicine rituals of different tribes as an anthropology study. The placebo effect does NOT mean something that is made up or deceptive. The placebo effect is a beautiful thing that has been a part of human culture for hundreds of thousands of years.
@@PeacePlease. Do you have any idea hoe much money is going into placebo treatments like 'alternative medicine' and such? Maybe it's the other way around: are 'alternative healers' trying to discredit science based treatments? I mean: you can learn Reiki in a weekend and then ask 50 euro for a 'treatment'. You can sell water bottles for 15 euro's and say it's special somehow. Happens all the time.
Kitty Contradictol® is manufactured by fakepharmaco™, the company's headquarters is located on Bandiaterra, and the biggest consumer of it is he country of LIMBERWISK. it can cause side effects like these people who tried it reported tripping/stumpling more than the average amount (once every two years). increased sneezing and coughing than the average (2 sneezes per year and 15 coughs per life). when they shaved their hair, it did not grow to full length in 2 weeks as usual. if applied heat to body or done heavy exercise, they suffered from sweating (producing smelly salty water from skin) which is a health hazard as you know. became allergic to poisons and venom. can not digest paper, leaves, or wood like other herbivore humans. hard time digesting raw meat and great chance of some ailment afterwards. inability to understand quantum physics, for children under 8 years old they also reported inability to debunk relativity theory.
As a chronic pain patient (I have CRPS in 3/4 my body) I'm a *_HUGE_* fan of the placebo effect and am constantly trying to find ways to trick my body into feeling better!
At one point in my life, I was developing a random spasm in my spine. It was violent and painful and made me feel very awkward in public. There was a slight tingle before the spasm that allowed me to mentally prepare myself and take control of the neural impulse, redirecting it from my spine into my limbs and eventually out my fingers and toes. I barely have remnants of them today. All the power of the mind. I think placebos allow people to reprogram their minds and take subconscious control of their bodies to fight their ailments, in some cases. I could be wrong, but I was able to do what I did with just my mind, determination and willpower. Anyone can do it. A placebo just makes it easier to stop telling yourself "No, I can't do that."
+Stanley Kinzinger He wasn't hyping nonsense... he's right, CIA tested LSD a lot in the 70s as a potential "mind control" drug. We don't know what does what until we test it.
Placebo steroids. That'd be something. I've read somewhere where they did a test on 2 groups of people. One exercising and the other just thinking about it. The latter got some results as well.
MyChico333 I know. I was suggesting both exercising and taking them. That example was just to show proof of hypertrophy based on thought only, which is sort of a placebo.
+MyChico333 They do, actually. Also, in addition to the effects that work with all else the same (which isn't nearly as much as they work when the athlete works hard), they give the motivation and energy (atp, literal energy in the cells) that helps the person work out, enjoy working out, and thus, have an even better effect because they worked harder than they would have without the motivating and energizing effect.
it's not the placebo that heals; it's our mind and body. We keep thinking that we need drugs to heal, but the placebo affect shows we have the ability to do incredible and near miraculous healing just by our will alone. Maybe we'll eventually master how to have the effect without having to be tricked
That would take the ability to actively control individual parts of our mind. Would be amazing if just a thought could activate the effect that part of our brain. hmm im sick and i want to feel better so you think of feeling better and bam all better.
Yeah, but in order to induce a placebo effect, you need a placebo, dummy. It's your medium to which the power of your expectation can be channeled. Can your mind and body grow a lost limb???? Try it and let me know if you can.
So great working with you guys! I'm just wondering what would happen if I took a red and blue sleeping pill...would I go to sleep, or run around like crazy...hmm...
THAT CONTRADICTOL AD WAS PERFECT. The music, the voice, especially the pictures in the background... Sooo accurate. The funniest medication commercial I'd ever seen had those kinds of happy video clips- eating, playing with kids, running, fishing- playing through the entire thing and a cheerful female narrator. There was maybe 15 seconds of advertisement, and then the rest of the video (most of it) was her reading off horrible side effects in that same cheerful voice with happy music and those kinds of video clips in the background.
this needs to be more deeply explored! can you imagine the possibilities! This needs to be used more often!....i wonder how strong / effective the placebo effect can be... and can it be used for other reasons other than the medical field....or is it being done already...
When I was little and mom was pregnant with my brother, I'd get sympathy pains whenever she got sick. When the doctor came (they still made house calls back then), he'd make time to talk to me and check me over too, and had sugar pills on hand that always made me feel better. He never talked down to me, and made me feel very grown up. I'll never forget that.
as a child i often "refused" to get sick. I believed I had a very strong immune system and I always expected that even if minor symptoms developed they would only last a day or two, and that's usually what happened. Now it didn't always work. There were a few nasty viruses that left me breifly bedridden, but on average I was sick less often than my classmates. As I grew older I realized this was probably partially placebo effect, but it seems as long as I don't lose confidence in the effects of my strong immune system and my abilities to psychosomatically "refuse" illness, I can keep using it as an effective technique. I've tried to teach it to other people but I think if you don't deceive them young enough, their reasoning says it doesn't make sense to "refuse" an illness and they don't have enough confidence for the effect to occur.
It is to do with your inner programming. As Bruce Lipton tells us. You can have all the knowledge in the world that gives you information, but he found when one of his students said to him: "Bruce, you don't seem to be doing that well if what you say is true." He then realised that he was 'talking the talk', but he wasn't 'walking the talk'. So he stopped his workshops until he had re-programmed his subconscious to be in line with his knowledge that he had proven in his experiments. He said that once he did that, everything started falling into place for him. When I heard him saying that, a light-bulb went off for me, for that is exactly where I was in my life. I have helped so many people through this reprogramming they were able to do with past events that they had not released, but hadn't done the same thing for me.
@@bobleclair5665 you're right! it's seriously insane how much our own minds have the greatest impact on our quality of life. Like in my case, I've been quite the pessimistic, anxious, awkward, etc kid while growing up and that had always caused me to barely enjoy life, hate outings, distance myself from both friends and family, and the stress it would cause me to feel had quite an important impact on my health. However last year while I was confined at home, I just somehow started focusing my attention on other things, and maybe being in a pandemic was weighing my mind so much that I just unconsciously made a 180° switch (it took time tho ofc) and even though I can't just push my mind into curing my anxiety which is a very real thing I experience, I started always focusing on the positive side of things, always looking forward to the next day, I barely stress anymore in front of my exams, I'm so much more sociable and managed to befriend a lot of ppl despite my entire 1st year of college being online. I even stopped fearing insects like I used to. Now I can even pick them up with no problem. I still have lots of worries but they no longer occupy my mind first, ever since I've started valuing myself more as a person, and expecting more from myself and my life, I became a much more happy and optimistic person. Wrote a ton oops-
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+TheFi0r3 yes, but before harnessing the effect to produce placebo pills, it must have had a useful role because it cam3 thus far. Does other apes have it? Why? How had it helped us until 4 generations ago?
Samuel Liebermann the thing is that a trait doesn't actually have to be useful for the creature to pass on. It simply needs the creature to reproduce and bam, it goes to the next generation. Even things that are harmful can be carried on because it doesn't really affect the ability of the creature to pass on its genes. Like I said before, placebo has the ability to improve health, a healthier creature has higher chances to reproduce, the creature reproduces, the gene is passed on.
iamihop That is why I said that only gave you more time to reproduce, To evolution it doesn't matter whether you are alive or not after you reproduced. For all that I would care if it could. You could die right after you finish having sex (unless you are female, so after you give birth).
+Samuel Liebermann becuase wielding the ability to heal yourself is incredible important. The placebo affect can even take place when your mother tells you everything witll be okay and kisses you once you've injured yourself as a child. Something along those lines as to the evolutionary purpose
I think you can placebo/nocebo yourself without a pill just using your state of mind. I remember a once when I tried to mentally prepare myself to pull a sicky from work. My plan was to pull the migraine card and actually ended up having a migraine. I am a firm believer in mind over matter and that you can think yourself healthy. Kind of like when someone gets a terminal illness and they either fight it or don't fight it so to speak. this is perceived to have a great effect the outcome. I myself haven't seen any kind of health professional since 2012 and since then a total 5 days off work due to illness.
Take two groups, give them both placebos: tell group A it's a placebo, tell group B is a real drug. I want to know if belief in the placebo affect is stronger than belief in the medicinal affect.
I have heard of people who have actually used lucid dreams to heal wounds: they have visualised a type of healing liquid during a dream, then submerged the injured body part in that liquid, and apparently felt much better a while later in real life. It sounds trippy as hell, but it is really just the placebo effect in dreams, so it could work.
My mother used to give me what she called 'sleeppowder'. She used to put it on my eyes (like make up) and it really WORKED. i slept like a baby after 5 minutes. I figured out that it was just some blush when i was around 10 years old. 😂😂❤️
How can you make a video like this and not mention what was seen when Valium was tested against placebo? Give a person a placebo, and tell them it is a muscle relaxer. X% feel the effect. Give a person Valium, and tell them it is a sugar pill, X% feel the effect. Give a person Valium, and TELL THEM it's a muscle relaxer, 10*X% feel the effect. If a person does not know they are receiving Valium, it doesn't work on them. Only if they KNOW they are getting Valium does it work. *And it works substantially better than placebo!* Human biology is insane.
Hey, I have got to prepare a presentation about the mechanisms underlying the placebo. The part at 4:46 seems pretty interesting, where the same ingredients have a smaller effect compared to the past. But it is nowhere mentioned in the articles from the reference. Anyone knows the source for that?
Do you suffer from a very bad cold? Then get Anti-cold-medicine! Side affects: Coughing, sneezing, depression, suicidal thoughts, minor forms of cancer, death, fatigue, coma, and heart attacks.
reminds me of that south park episode where randy gets told his alcohol problem is a disease. So he starts acting like he's a sick patient and powerless to the disease
Why not talk to the patient more? Because you've got 8 other people waiting to be seen, each more pissed off than the last because they had to wait 30 min to get their cold checked out, and you've got an office manager trying to urge you along so as to see more patients throughout the day so you can make up for the lost revenue created when the government fucked over the health industry leaving us with almost no profit margin. That's why you can't always afford to spend a lot of time talking with patients. It's sad, but it's true.
***** Who the fuck is making 200K+ a year? None of the physicians or mid-levels I work with make that. Try cutting that in half and you're closer to the mark. And sure, 100K a year is nothing to scoff at, but we don't vilify engineers, architects, or accountants for making that much. Don't talk about topics you don't understand.
+lee melymick does that make you feel better? If so I feel sorry for you if not.... Well your the piece of shit ether way. Everyone can see who's life is fucked up.
"Stay curious." The best line in there. I would add "Stay pragmatic." The placebo effect is directed intention in action. Treatments like psychosynthesis, healing meditations, gestalt therapy, prayer, etc. which focus the patient on the ailment with the intention of healing can be thought of as placebo treatments as well. And I'll bet many work much better than the placebos mentioned in the video. I consider these affects spiritual.
From what I understand, a lot of the improvements that have been seen in patients of homeopathy have been linked to the time practitioners spend talking to patients
Why not tell the patient you're giving him a placebo, but then give him the real drug. The combined effects of placebo and the drug should work better than the placebo alone, right?
Dalton Von Hahn Placebo only Works If the patient truly believes that it is real. If you tell them that it's a placebo ( and therefore Fake) it won't work. In this case the real medicine might even not work because they don't think it's real. It might be like a placebo, but just the other way round
@@rosehale7228 actually I think it's more complicated like that. For example can you say the same about a lethal poison? Give them a lethal poison like cyanide dissolved in water and tell them it's just sugar dissolved in water.
To account for the placebo effect, just have three groups: one thaking the real pill, one taking the placebo, and one not receiving any treatment at all.
Your anxiety is the product of certain negative beliefs and expectations that you entertain and hold as truth, or as indisputable conditions of your experience, but with a little self-reasoning and acknowledging the damaging beliefs as just BELIEFS you may be able to release the charge of your anxiety. I do not know what you are anxious about so I cannot be specific.
I get anxiety attacks sometimes and nothing really triggers them. It's only happened 3 or 4 times, can't remember exactly, but they were so weird each time because I wasn't sure what I was anxious about. My heart would just start pounding super fast, some parts would ache, my hands would sweat, and I would get these uncontrollable bad thoughts. I tried Buspirone for a few days (didn't take up the alternatives because I don't want to deal with the side effects or the withdrawals) but it just made me feel worse, kinda like a robot. I wouldn't get anxious sure, but it removed all my emotion and energy. Felt really uncomfortable, and it made me nauseous for the whole day. I also wish there was a placebo for anxiety. It sucks not knowing if I'll get a random anxiety attack out of nowhere. I ordered a fidget cube and it seems to work pretty well, surprisingly. Or maybe that's just a placebo... 🤔
Nothing starts from nothing. Hypnotherapy may be able to take you back to the very first time that you experience anxiety. The nervous system remembers.
They are now performing placebo gastric band surgery. Early trials show it works almost as well as the real surgery, even when the patient knows they have the placebo operation.
And that's where you're wrong! In clinical tests people have experienced reduced pain even when told they where given placebo and as placebo isn't just one effect but multiple effects that we don't yet know the full extend of you can be sure there's enough placebos to go around in the future.... 😉
ya sorry, I know I wrote this before getting to the second half of the video where they talk of situations in which people that know the medication is a placebo still feel its affects.
PurpleOllivier okay, explains a lot. The field is actually super interesting if you decide to dive further into it.... Especially when related to mechanisms of pain!
True I was really into it a couple years ago, but I never fully confirmed what the difference between a Placebo and Nocebo is. I'm pretty sure it just means the positive affect it has on the person for a placebo and negative for the Nocebo. Do you know??
PurpleOllivier yes, it's basically like this: Let's say you're a doctor and you give a patient a sugarpill for their pain - you tell them they can expect painrelief but also a terrible nausea. The patient experience both, perhaps even to a degree where they feel they have to go to the bathroom... It happens quite often to people who read the full list of possible side effects to medicines. So basically, if you expect something unpleasant to happen you increase the risk of something unpleasant happening due to the nocebo effect... It is sort of the same as placebo, just another outcome because the expectations where different - as you've already guessed...
I always imagine getting better when I'm sick and I always think about how fresh air or water will cure my headache with high expectations and it always helps
Contradictol is not far from the truth. Many drugs with side effects may make you think you have side effects making you take even more expensive drugs or just plainly take more drugs and pay more money so you can be "healthy".
This is true, although it's weird because placebo pills don't work on me but believing something or really just ignoring it does, for small insignificant things at least on me.
***** Yes that's true. I meant only those who are susceptible to suggestion to enough of a degree, for a placebo to result in what they believe to be an effect. Not all are that susceptible and will not believe something simply as a result of expectation. In this context for example a placebo pill for a migraine headache might work well on some sufferers, work so well on others that it sends them to sleep.. and of course not work at all with the rest. Humans by nature are open to suggestion and obviously the extremes on either side of that curve are fewer.
Ok I'll say the same thing this way. Even when people are unaware they've taken a placebo, it doesn't work on everyone, only those who are susceptible to suggestion. For example & from personal experience - Phenylephrine is an over-the-counter cough, cold and allergy product intended to relieve nasal sinus congestion. Every time a chemist would give it to me to use instead of other drugs it did absolutely nothing to help alleviate my condition. I even tried to convince the chemist that Phenylephrine is about as effective as a tic-tac. I never got that drug again. A year later I found this interesting report on Phenylephrine. It is a placebo! Nothing more. pharmacy.ufl.edu/2015/10/14/uf-researchers-ask-fda-to-remove-non-prescription-decongestant-from-the-market/
I had a client for quit smoking. He came to hypnotherapy to give up smoking, but he believed that hypnosis didn't work. (makes you wonder why he came huh?). Most of my clients stop smoking on the first session and don't go back to smoking as the many follow-up testimonials validate. Some people feel that hypnosis is a placebo (I won't go into that here). I did my smoking session with the client and two days later rang me to say that it didn't work and he needed to come back. When he came back I asked; "Did you have craving for a cigarette since you had the session?" "No" was the answer. "Did you have withdrawal symptoms?" "No" So what happened. "I just wanted to check whether it worked or not, so I had a cigarette." There is nothing that can tell you what a man(or woman) thinks inside that causes things to fail. The next session I put in what is called an 'aversion technique'. Something the client hated the smell of. We built up the smell in hypnosis to the extent that I could see the disgust on his face and told him that if he ever intended to light up a cigarette again it would smell like that and he would throw it away. That worked for him. So the question is; are some people not suggestive enough for the placebo to work, or is it simply that they have not been persuaded sufficiently enough to have it work?
***** Never underestimate the power of meditation my friend...according to Quantum Mechanics " Observation can alter the State of a particles " and " Reality doesn't exist until we measured it".......Scientist call it the Observer effect....They say that the "conscious presence" of observer is not the one responsible for it .....the energy added to the system like heat and gravity of the observer is responsible according to them but they can't prove it mathematically.....Who will you believe a Scientist like them or a Stoner like me....choose logically.....
Have you become aware of Robert Lanza and Biocentrism? www.robertlanza.com/biocentrism-how-life-and-consciousness-are-the-keys-to-understanding-the-true-nature-of-the-universe/
I wish there was a video that explained how the placebo effect actually works, physiologically. I get we are tricking the mind, but we actually get better, so there must be something deeper at work. Terminal cancer patients who are religious have a higher chance of survival.
What a wonderful advice. The doctor is always in (our brains). This placebo can reduce sufferance in many third world countries, where hundreds of millions of people have no access to good medical services and simply can not afford the prices of real medicine. The problem, as I realized from my personal experience, is to make people believe that they can get better if they choose. Most people hear about these theories and they never bother to try them seriously.
I think this has to do with the Psychology of Perception and how perceing is believing, but i never realized how DEEPLY in can mold our reality!!! Like seizing pain and making muscles grow bigger and better??? That's crazy!
Something interesting once happened to me at work. I had the habit of taking a caffeine pill at noon. Which I had in a little pouch, but I didn't want to take it out or anything, so I just got out the pill quickly. I also had some painkillers in this pouch. Well, the "caffeine pill" worked as usual, that day. Only in the evening did I realize that I had taken a painkiller instead!
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Someone should start selling "confidence" sugar pills - I bet they would work!
+TheSUPERHAPPY1 they already sell that it's called alcohol
+TheSUPERHAPPY1 a Pill to take before public speaking
+Martin Landart google GHB
+TheSUPERHAPPY1 pretty sure they do, or did.
+TheSUPERHAPPY1 It already exists, it's called homeopathy.
I think the placebo effect is amazing. It's real, and gives evidence to the power of the mind and body to heal itself with nothing but positive thought.
And chemicals that the body already had.
But yes you are right.
THERE YA HAVE IT, IN A NUTSHELL - glad you didn't buy the crap in this video!!
@@PeacePlease. the video is literally stating this he’s just making an obvious libk
Of course, it's real. That's why there is such a thing as the placebo effect, dummy. However, the power of our expectations can only alter our perception of symptoms to some extent. It cannot HEAL the body like the examples mentioned in the video such as shrinking mass caused by metastatic cancer or growing a limb. And no, the placebo effect is not a simple mind-over-matter thing. Place effects can only happen through the use of a placebo, an inert treatment like a sugar pill. Positive thoughts, alone, will and can not cause placebo effects.
Great video. It would be nice to have an explanation of what exactly is going on inside the brain and body that causes placebos to be effective.
+Eugene Khutoryansky Your videos are great :D
+Eugene Khutoryansky Fun fact: As cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton points out in his book... Of the protein receptors on the membrane of your cells, only 10% of them respond to chemical stimuli (pills), the other 90% respond to all other types of energetic stimuli (your thoughts being one).
Surely meds can help is some cases, however a positive mindset can have tremendous healing power, even on a cellular level.
This is an over simplification and I encourage those interested to check out the audio book "The Wisdom of Your Cells" for more details. He also has some youtube videos you could check out.
Eat that Rx industry! Just you try and figure out how to make money off my thoughts!!
+iamihop You are wrong and have provided no information to refute my
citation, which oversimplified as it is, is sharply, factually correct.
If our cells respond solely to chemical stimuli period, explain to me
phototransduction. how are the cells in our eyes able to interact with
light (visible electromagnetic radiation) and in turn make an image in
our brain?
Citing a few secondary sourced articles coupled with name calling does little to support your argument. Your ad hominim attack on Lipton is unfounded. He studied his field for decades and his knowledge of the biology of cells is unquestioned in his field. What gets challenged are his claims beyond cells and the grand conclusions he draws from them. I wont argue further about intracellular transduction nor will I take on debate about the electrical pulses between synapses, but I would suggest you look into Lipton, because he doesn't misrepresent these processes. I am a philosopher and not so much a scientist, but I will suggest the thing we may have in common is critical thinking skills. Based of the results of placebo studies, the idea of our thoughts affecting our biology is not as far fetched as you suggest and perhaps there is a complex mechanics behind it.
And to your statement about spreading bullshit on yt, What's bullshit is the stranglehold Rx companies have on the American psyche. Often when someone mentions anything about an "alternative" (other than pills) treatment there's a certain stigma attached to it. It's this stigma that is directly related to holding back research in many different types of treatment and areas of science. Placebo studies show that there's so much more to healing disease than popping pills. It turns out that our thoughts do have tremendous healing power. Working in a hospital for years, I've seen it. I remember reading an article about a study that demonstrated how a persons mindset can lead to improved or poorer health within a hospital setting. I think it's the same principle involved in the placebo effect, your thoughts.
Finally, you don't want to put cow dung directly on your garden. It's best to first compost it with other ingredients at a ratio of 30:1 carbon to nitrogen.
I'm no neurologist, but from what I know the brain passes information through it's neurons via an electrical-chemical-electrical response. So when we take a pill and it passes through our blood-brain barrier the chemicals trigger the neurons to generate a corresponding electrical signal that will in turn release the desired neurotransmitters to the next neuron, and so on, and so forth. The thing is I don't think our brain can differentiate one chemical from another. Only which receptor a molecule fits into. So as long as we believe the molecules in the pill we're taking will do what we were told they will and they fit into the receptor, they are more, well "receptive", to receiving them.
iamihop I really enjoyed reading that conversation. Always interested to hear discussions on these topics even if it may be a slighty heated exchange. Though "slightly heated" feels like an overstatment to me.
I totally fell in love with the placebo effect when studying the medicine rituals of different tribes as an anthropology study. The placebo effect does NOT mean something that is made up or deceptive. The placebo effect is a beautiful thing that has been a part of human culture for hundreds of thousands of years.
Humans have only been a thing for 100 k years
@@Smuckular ok well i wrote that 6 years ago lol. let’s say thousands of years haha
@@Chameleam I didn't even see the length lol
And u responded that quick 💀
THANK you for standing up to the nonsensical twisted information that this video is supplying - WONDER IF THE PHARMA. COS ARE FUNDING IT.... Hmmmm!?🤔
@@PeacePlease. Do you have any idea hoe much money is going into placebo treatments like 'alternative medicine' and such? Maybe it's the other way around: are 'alternative healers' trying to discredit science based treatments? I mean: you can learn Reiki in a weekend and then ask 50 euro for a 'treatment'. You can sell water bottles for 15 euro's and say it's special somehow. Happens all the time.
'Open wide, it's time for science.'
That's what my science teacher always used to say to me. He's in jail now.
😂😂😂
I thought he said "The doctor is always in"
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...um...OK...?
:( why?
Ok, but where can I buy Contradictol®?
+BogameAOC7 Clearly it's a powerful prescription-only medication...
+Greg Scott , yeah, there's no medication. Only a prescription.
Kitty
Contradictol® is manufactured by fakepharmaco™, the company's headquarters is located on Bandiaterra, and the biggest consumer of it is he country of LIMBERWISK.
it can cause side effects like these
people who tried it reported tripping/stumpling more than the average amount (once every two years).
increased sneezing and coughing than the average (2 sneezes per year and 15 coughs per life).
when they shaved their hair, it did not grow to full length in 2 weeks as usual.
if applied heat to body or done heavy exercise, they suffered from sweating (producing smelly salty water from skin) which is a health hazard as you know.
became allergic to poisons and venom.
can not digest paper, leaves, or wood like other herbivore humans.
hard time digesting raw meat and great chance of some ailment afterwards.
inability to understand quantum physics, for children under 8 years old they also reported inability to debunk relativity theory.
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As a chronic pain patient (I have CRPS in 3/4 my body) I'm a *_HUGE_* fan of the placebo effect and am constantly trying to find ways to trick my body into feeling better!
WAY2GO - Look into Quantum Healing, it WORKS!! May you kick the pain for good one day - Amen!! Ushta-te!!
Be carful of building a tolerance to placebo effect. The thought of actively tricking your mind may have a negative effect? IDK
Pls try Anapana sati meditation, just observe natural breath.. empty mind.
At one point in my life, I was developing a random spasm in my spine. It was violent and painful and made me feel very awkward in public. There was a slight tingle before the spasm that allowed me to mentally prepare myself and take control of the neural impulse, redirecting it from my spine into my limbs and eventually out my fingers and toes. I barely have remnants of them today. All the power of the mind. I think placebos allow people to reprogram their minds and take subconscious control of their bodies to fight their ailments, in some cases. I could be wrong, but I was able to do what I did with just my mind, determination and willpower. Anyone can do it. A placebo just makes it easier to stop telling yourself "No, I can't do that."
When I was little and I was sad my sister would give me “magic medicine” to make me feel better. They were pieces of candy and they really helped me.
lol my sister would do the same thing. pretty cool.
Have studies been done where a group is told they're being given placebo but are actually being given the real drug?
+lee melymick hahaha that'd be cruel, but kinda interesting.
+lee melymick shut up you conspiracist
Well, this got weird.
+Stanley Kinzinger He wasn't hyping nonsense... he's right, CIA tested LSD a lot in the 70s as a potential "mind control" drug. We don't know what does what until we test it.
Have studies bin done by giving people poison but said thats a real medicine?
All you need is 'faith' to work. Placebo Effect is also responsible for the spiritual experiences during praise and worship.
contradictol changed my life!
What a Contradiction :/
this video didn't cure me of procrastination of work. i kept clicking to watch more...
Lol you still here??
All these years and still the best video I've seen on the topic.
Placebo steroids. That'd be something. I've read somewhere where they did a test on 2 groups of people. One exercising and the other just thinking about it. The latter got some results as well.
steroids don't work if you don't exercise
MyChico333 I know. I was suggesting both exercising and taking them. That example was just to show proof of hypertrophy based on thought only, which is sort of a placebo.
+MyChico333 They do, actually. Also, in addition to the effects that work with all else the same (which isn't nearly as much as they work when the athlete works hard), they give the motivation and energy (atp, literal energy in the cells) that helps the person work out, enjoy working out, and thus, have an even better effect because they worked harder than they would have without the motivating and energizing effect.
That Contradictol Ad was ingeniously placed. Laughed internally on that..... Good Work
it's not the placebo that heals; it's our mind and body. We keep thinking that we need drugs to heal, but the placebo affect shows we have the ability to do incredible and near miraculous healing just by our will alone. Maybe we'll eventually master how to have the effect without having to be tricked
That would take the ability to actively control individual parts of our mind. Would be amazing if just a thought could activate the effect that part of our brain. hmm im sick and i want to feel better so you think of feeling better and bam all better.
The placebo effect can't heal you. It only makes the pain go away (or be stronger). If the mind could magically heal us then we wouldn't have doctors.
Yeah, but in order to induce a placebo effect, you need a placebo, dummy. It's your medium to which the power of your expectation can be channeled. Can your mind and body grow a lost limb???? Try it and let me know if you can.
So when Neo took the red pill, was the matrix just a placebo effect?
Matthew Thunder I thought of the Matrix too! Excellent question!
The blue pill would put him to sleep.
Awwww man…awesome you thought of that 😅
"In order for something to be special, you have to _believe_ its special"
"Open wide"
*always for you*
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Wtf
This channel definitely needs more views. The episodes are quite easy to understand as well as entertaining.
Very well done! as always :)
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So great working with you guys! I'm just wondering what would happen if I took a red and blue sleeping pill...would I go to sleep, or run around like crazy...hmm...
Run around like crazy. :)
I think it would balance out and do nothing.
Run around in your sleep, easy :D
and lose weight in the process :)
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THAT CONTRADICTOL AD WAS PERFECT. The music, the voice, especially the pictures in the background... Sooo accurate. The funniest medication commercial I'd ever seen had those kinds of happy video clips- eating, playing with kids, running, fishing- playing through the entire thing and a cheerful female narrator. There was maybe 15 seconds of advertisement, and then the rest of the video (most of it) was her reading off horrible side effects in that same cheerful voice with happy music and those kinds of video clips in the background.
this needs to be more deeply explored! can you imagine the possibilities! This needs to be used more often!....i wonder how strong / effective the placebo effect can be... and can it be used for other reasons other than the medical field....or is it being done already...
Power of human belief. Mind over body👍
''Open wide, it's time for science'' is my new pickup line.
The commercial at 4:08 was hilarious
he's actually incorporated with his content
4:34 Did that advert just try to sell me a drug that made me sick?!
When I was little and mom was pregnant with my brother, I'd get sympathy pains whenever she got sick. When the doctor came (they still made house calls back then), he'd make time to talk to me and check me over too, and had sugar pills on hand that always made me feel better. He never talked down to me, and made me feel very grown up. I'll never forget that.
as a child i often "refused" to get sick. I believed I had a very strong immune system and I always expected that even if minor symptoms developed they would only last a day or two, and that's usually what happened. Now it didn't always work. There were a few nasty viruses that left me breifly bedridden, but on average I was sick less often than my classmates. As I grew older I realized this was probably partially placebo effect, but it seems as long as I don't lose confidence in the effects of my strong immune system and my abilities to psychosomatically "refuse" illness, I can keep using it as an effective technique. I've tried to teach it to other people but I think if you don't deceive them young enough, their reasoning says it doesn't make sense to "refuse" an illness and they don't have enough confidence for the effect to occur.
It is to do with your inner programming. As Bruce Lipton tells us. You can have all the knowledge in the world that gives you information, but he found when one of his students said to him: "Bruce, you don't seem to be doing that well if what you say is true." He then realised that he was 'talking the talk', but he wasn't 'walking the talk'. So he stopped his workshops until he had re-programmed his subconscious to be in line with his knowledge that he had proven in his experiments. He said that once he did that, everything started falling into place for him. When I heard him saying that, a light-bulb went off for me, for that is exactly where I was in my life. I have helped so many people through this reprogramming they were able to do with past events that they had not released, but hadn't done the same thing for me.
You just incorporated the original ads into your content. That's very smart dude.
I wonder how this relates to optimism, pessimism, and self-fulfilling prophecies.
The future is all in your thoughts,think positive and stay healthy,peace
@@bobleclair5665 you're right! it's seriously insane how much our own minds have the greatest impact on our quality of life.
Like in my case, I've been quite the pessimistic, anxious, awkward, etc kid while growing up and that had always caused me to barely enjoy life, hate outings, distance myself from both friends and family, and the stress it would cause me to feel had quite an important impact on my health. However last year while I was confined at home, I just somehow started focusing my attention on other things, and maybe being in a pandemic was weighing my mind so much that I just unconsciously made a 180° switch (it took time tho ofc) and even though I can't just push my mind into curing my anxiety which is a very real thing I experience, I started always focusing on the positive side of things, always looking forward to the next day, I barely stress anymore in front of my exams, I'm so much more sociable and managed to befriend a lot of ppl despite my entire 1st year of college being online. I even stopped fearing insects like I used to. Now I can even pick them up with no problem.
I still have lots of worries but they no longer occupy my mind first, ever since I've started valuing myself more as a person, and expecting more from myself and my life, I became a much more happy and optimistic person.
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What evolutionary purpose does the placebo affect serve?
+Samuel Liebermann be able to last longer to pass on your genes. Females prefer healthy looking males. Etc.
+TheFi0r3 yes, but before harnessing the effect to produce placebo pills, it must have had a useful role because it cam3 thus far.
Does other apes have it? Why? How had it helped us until 4 generations ago?
Samuel Liebermann the thing is that a trait doesn't actually have to be useful for the creature to pass on. It simply needs the creature to reproduce and bam, it goes to the next generation. Even things that are harmful can be carried on because it doesn't really affect the ability of the creature to pass on its genes.
Like I said before, placebo has the ability to improve health, a healthier creature has higher chances to reproduce, the creature reproduces, the gene is passed on.
iamihop That is why I said that only gave you more time to reproduce, To evolution it doesn't matter whether you are alive or not after you reproduced. For all that I would care if it could. You could die right after you finish having sex (unless you are female, so after you give birth).
+Samuel Liebermann becuase wielding the ability to heal yourself is incredible important. The placebo affect can even take place when your mother tells you everything witll be okay and kisses you once you've injured yourself as a child. Something along those lines as to the evolutionary purpose
I think you can placebo/nocebo yourself without a pill just using your state of mind. I remember a once when I tried to mentally prepare myself to pull a sicky from work. My plan was to pull the migraine card and actually ended up having a migraine. I am a firm believer in mind over matter and that you can think yourself healthy. Kind of like when someone gets a terminal illness and they either fight it or don't fight it so to speak. this is perceived to have a great effect the outcome. I myself haven't seen any kind of health professional since 2012 and since then a total 5 days off work due to illness.
Take two groups, give them both placebos: tell group A it's a placebo, tell group B is a real drug. I want to know if belief in the placebo affect is stronger than belief in the medicinal affect.
Most underrated idea and I found it 8 years later.
I have heard of people who have actually used lucid dreams to heal wounds:
they have visualised a type of healing liquid during a dream, then submerged the injured body part in that liquid, and apparently felt much better a while later in real life. It sounds trippy as hell, but it is really just the placebo effect in dreams, so it could work.
My mother used to give me what she called 'sleeppowder'. She used to put it on my eyes (like make up) and it really WORKED. i slept like a baby after 5 minutes. I figured out that it was just some blush when i was around 10 years old. 😂😂❤️
This is what I will do if I become a parent
I have been getting notifications of these old videos like you just posted them so I guess RUclips loves you. 🖤😂
How can you make a video like this and not mention what was seen when Valium was tested against placebo?
Give a person a placebo, and tell them it is a muscle relaxer. X% feel the effect.
Give a person Valium, and tell them it is a sugar pill, X% feel the effect.
Give a person Valium, and TELL THEM it's a muscle relaxer, 10*X% feel the effect.
If a person does not know they are receiving Valium, it doesn't work on them. Only if they KNOW they are getting Valium does it work. *And it works substantially better than placebo!* Human biology is insane.
Hm that's weird.
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The production on this episode was top notch, well done.
*Now I just imagine I had a placebo and the pain goes away.
Hey, I have got to prepare a presentation about the mechanisms underlying the placebo. The part at 4:46 seems pretty interesting, where the same ingredients have a smaller effect compared to the past. But it is nowhere mentioned in the articles from the reference. Anyone knows the source for that?
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Side affects: Coughing, sneezing, depression, suicidal thoughts, minor forms of cancer, death, fatigue, coma, and heart attacks.
And the condition known as "Hot Dog Fingers"
Placebo means that the human body is built in a way that it can treat itself but all it needs is a little push.
reminds me of that south park episode where randy gets told his alcohol problem is a disease. So he starts acting like he's a sick patient and powerless to the disease
By prescription only. Side effects include nose bleeds, viral infection, temporary paralysis, hearing loss and constipation.
I cant believe that the salt water worked!! The human mind will forever amaze me! great vid btw!
Why not talk to the patient more? Because you've got 8 other people waiting to be seen, each more pissed off than the last because they had to wait 30 min to get their cold checked out, and you've got an office manager trying to urge you along so as to see more patients throughout the day so you can make up for the lost revenue created when the government fucked over the health industry leaving us with almost no profit margin.
That's why you can't always afford to spend a lot of time talking with patients. It's sad, but it's true.
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Who the fuck is making 200K+ a year? None of the physicians or mid-levels I work with make that. Try cutting that in half and you're closer to the mark. And sure, 100K a year is nothing to scoff at, but we don't vilify engineers, architects, or accountants for making that much.
Don't talk about topics you don't understand.
+lee melymick does that make you feel better? If so I feel sorry for you if not.... Well your the piece of shit ether way. Everyone can see who's life is fucked up.
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-_- seriously? Again, as I've said several times now, I'm not complaining about my own level of income. I'm quite happy where I am. Grow up.
+epicpolyphony yeah, that's what I was thinking. Doctor time is apparently more expensive than the drugs.
Because they dont have nof time to help patients on the wright way, its not all about the money
It's so friendly when you say 'stay curious'.
Its ridiculous there are commercials for drugs. Who watches a commercial and thinks "hmmm. I need those pills"
How ironic this pops into my recommendations right when I get a terrible sore throat, flu & caviar cough... Great
This is the story of "Homeopathic medicines" in India.
Man you nailed it 😂
🤣😂😂 all over world.
Joel Craig my dear i know your not in my life right now but you taught me a lot about the placebo effect i just want to learn more about it.
“Obsessive Selfie Disorder” lol, totally not meh, hey google take a screenshot!
Say what you will but watching this video cured me of my chronic back pain for some reason
Why don't we placebo apple juice into beer so they believe they got drunk and got nausea.
People DO actually believe that they are drunk when they have been drinking large amounts of something that they assume is alcohol.
"Stay curious." The best line in there. I would add "Stay pragmatic." The placebo effect is directed intention in action. Treatments like psychosynthesis, healing meditations, gestalt therapy, prayer, etc. which focus the patient on the ailment with the intention of healing can be thought of as placebo treatments as well. And I'll bet many work much better than the placebos mentioned in the video. I consider these affects spiritual.
But there are no breaks on the Star Wars hype train
When I was in med. school, I'd occasionally develop "tension" headaches. I used a red placebo to treat them with very good effect.
i just realised, you sound a lot like jacksfilms
Yesterday, I asked you how do placebos work? Here is the answer
Bad day?
*LIGHT SWITCH*
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From what I understand, a lot of the improvements that have been seen in patients of homeopathy have been linked to the time practitioners spend talking to patients
"This?!!! It's a gazebo!"
*throws pills at mom*
that's why I can recover from my illness and diseases I always think positive
Why not tell the patient you're giving him a placebo, but then give him the real drug. The combined effects of placebo and the drug should work better than the placebo alone, right?
Dalton Von Hahn Placebo only Works If the patient truly believes that it is real. If you tell them that it's a placebo ( and therefore Fake) it won't work. In this case the real medicine might even not work because they don't think it's real. It might be like a placebo, but just the other way round
@@rosehale7228 actually I think it's more complicated like that. For example can you say the same about a lethal poison? Give them a lethal poison like cyanide dissolved in water and tell them it's just sugar dissolved in water.
To account for the placebo effect, just have three groups: one thaking the real pill, one taking the placebo, and one not receiving any treatment at all.
I have a cold. Now I will make a fake chewable 'pill' out of cornstarch water and sugar to see if it works! :3
I've been on a mission to watch all your videos and contradictol was by far my fav
"Star Wars overhype"
* likes the video *
f a c t s
That contradictol comercial was perfection!
Placebo and prayer work the same way.
placebo thought of being healed and relief creates the reality
I wish some one will give me some placebo pill to take away this anxiety because the real pill are not workings
Your anxiety is the product of certain negative beliefs and expectations that you entertain and hold as truth, or as indisputable conditions of your experience, but with a little self-reasoning and acknowledging the damaging beliefs as just BELIEFS you may be able to release the charge of your anxiety. I do not know what you are anxious about so I cannot be specific.
I get anxiety attacks sometimes and nothing really triggers them. It's only happened 3 or 4 times, can't remember exactly, but they were so weird each time because I wasn't sure what I was anxious about. My heart would just start pounding super fast, some parts would ache, my hands would sweat, and I would get these uncontrollable bad thoughts.
I tried Buspirone for a few days (didn't take up the alternatives because I don't want to deal with the side effects or the withdrawals) but it just made me feel worse, kinda like a robot. I wouldn't get anxious sure, but it removed all my emotion and energy. Felt really uncomfortable, and it made me nauseous for the whole day.
I also wish there was a placebo for anxiety. It sucks not knowing if I'll get a random anxiety attack out of nowhere. I ordered a fidget cube and it seems to work pretty well, surprisingly. Or maybe that's just a placebo... 🤔
Nothing starts from nothing. Hypnotherapy may be able to take you back to the very first time that you experience anxiety. The nervous system remembers.
I love how you start and end your video!
My sister said she was sick and I gave her a skittle and told her it was special medication then she said was fealing better
They are now performing placebo gastric band surgery. Early trials show it works almost as well as the real surgery, even when the patient knows they have the placebo operation.
5:42 We call this "Homeopathy".
I love Dropbox! Very cool that they support this video
Its really because the Almighty wants us to heal.
why does he create disease in the first place.....
the fact that the watchers of this video will never truly feel the affects of a placebo because of our knowledge of them
And that's where you're wrong!
In clinical tests people have experienced reduced pain even when told they where given placebo and as placebo isn't just one effect but multiple effects that we don't yet know the full extend of you can be sure there's enough placebos to go around in the future.... 😉
ya sorry, I know I wrote this before getting to the second half of the video where they talk of situations in which people that know the medication is a placebo still feel its affects.
PurpleOllivier okay, explains a lot.
The field is actually super interesting if you decide to dive further into it....
Especially when related to mechanisms of pain!
True I was really into it a couple years ago, but I never fully confirmed what the difference between a Placebo and Nocebo is. I'm pretty sure it just means the positive affect it has on the person for a placebo and negative for the Nocebo. Do you know??
PurpleOllivier yes, it's basically like this:
Let's say you're a doctor and you give a patient a sugarpill for their pain - you tell them they can expect painrelief but also a terrible nausea.
The patient experience both, perhaps even to a degree where they feel they have to go to the bathroom...
It happens quite often to people who read the full list of possible side effects to medicines.
So basically, if you expect something unpleasant to happen you increase the risk of something unpleasant happening due to the nocebo effect...
It is sort of the same as placebo, just another outcome because the expectations where different - as you've already guessed...
gazebos
I always imagine getting better when I'm sick and I always think about how fresh air or water will cure my headache with high expectations and it always helps
Contradictol is not far from the truth. Many drugs with side effects may make you think you have side effects making you take even more expensive drugs or just plainly take more drugs and pay more money so you can be "healthy".
asdf30111 not how it works
Again so good, the production quality fits so much to the format. I love this show! Keep it up, please!
I'm so early! Good for me! nobody cares..
Dude... loving this channel!!! Thanks! Keep it up!
The placebo effect doesn't work on everyone, only those who are susceptible to suggestion.
This is true, although it's weird because placebo pills don't work on me but believing something or really just ignoring it does, for small insignificant things at least on me.
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Yes that's true. I meant only those who are susceptible to suggestion to enough of a degree, for a placebo to result in what they believe to be an effect. Not all are that susceptible and will not believe something simply as a result of expectation. In this context for example a placebo pill for a migraine headache might work well on some sufferers, work so well on others that it sends them to sleep.. and of course not work at all with the rest. Humans by nature are open to suggestion and obviously the extremes on either side of that curve are fewer.
If you believe placebos don't work for you, they won't work for you. Disbelief, is still belief.
Ok I'll say the same thing this way. Even when people are unaware they've taken a placebo, it doesn't work on everyone, only those who are susceptible to suggestion.
For example & from personal experience - Phenylephrine is an over-the-counter cough, cold and allergy product intended to relieve nasal sinus congestion. Every time a chemist would give it to me to use instead of other drugs it did absolutely nothing to help alleviate my condition. I even tried to convince the chemist that Phenylephrine is about as effective as a tic-tac.
I never got that drug again. A year later I found this interesting report on Phenylephrine. It is a placebo! Nothing more. pharmacy.ufl.edu/2015/10/14/uf-researchers-ask-fda-to-remove-non-prescription-decongestant-from-the-market/
I had a client for quit smoking. He came to hypnotherapy to give up smoking, but he believed that hypnosis didn't work. (makes you wonder why he came huh?). Most of my clients stop smoking on the first session and don't go back to smoking as the many follow-up testimonials validate. Some people feel that hypnosis is a placebo (I won't go into that here). I did my smoking session with the client and two days later rang me to say that it didn't work and he needed to come back. When he came back I asked; "Did you have craving for a cigarette since you had the session?" "No" was the answer. "Did you have withdrawal symptoms?" "No" So what happened. "I just wanted to check whether it worked or not, so I had a cigarette." There is nothing that can tell you what a man(or woman) thinks inside that causes things to fail. The next session I put in what is called an 'aversion technique'. Something the client hated the smell of. We built up the smell in hypnosis to the extent that I could see the disgust on his face and told him that if he ever intended to light up a cigarette again it would smell like that and he would throw it away. That worked for him. So the question is; are some people not suggestive enough for the placebo to work, or is it simply that they have not been persuaded sufficiently enough to have it work?
There is a LOT of psychological effect in placebo pills and long doctor conversation !!!!
That's it....I will smoke any dry leaves to get high...thanks to placebo..
If you expect the placebo, it won't work.
***** Never underestimate the power of meditation my friend...according to Quantum Mechanics " Observation can alter the State of a particles " and " Reality doesn't exist until we measured it".......Scientist call it the Observer effect....They say that the "conscious presence" of observer is not the one responsible for it .....the energy added to the system like heat and gravity of the observer is responsible according to them but they can't prove it mathematically.....Who will you believe a Scientist like them or a Stoner like me....choose logically.....
+mark fourtwenty Gonna go smoke some dandelions.
Have you become aware of Robert Lanza and Biocentrism? www.robertlanza.com/biocentrism-how-life-and-consciousness-are-the-keys-to-understanding-the-true-nature-of-the-universe/
I believe it because sometimes I just think that I'm about to feel good with out taking any medication and I feel better after thinking about that.
Please give me regards to the Lady or Man who thought of "contradictol" thats some of the funniest word play and pun usage ive seen well done! lol
I wish there was a video that explained how the placebo effect actually works, physiologically. I get we are tricking the mind, but we actually get better, so there must be something deeper at work. Terminal cancer patients who are religious have a higher chance of survival.
Maybe manifestation
What a wonderful advice. The doctor is always in (our brains). This placebo can reduce sufferance in many third world countries, where hundreds of millions of people have no access to good medical services and simply can not afford the prices of real medicine. The problem, as I realized from my personal experience, is to make people believe that they can get better if they choose. Most people hear about these theories and they never bother to try them seriously.
I think this has to do with the Psychology of Perception and how perceing is believing, but i never realized how DEEPLY in can mold our reality!!! Like seizing pain and making muscles grow bigger and better??? That's crazy!
I love this channel. Easy to understand, fun and very benifical
Something interesting once happened to me at work. I had the habit of taking a caffeine pill at noon. Which I had in a little pouch, but I didn't want to take it out or anything, so I just got out the pill quickly. I also had some painkillers in this pouch.
Well, the "caffeine pill" worked as usual, that day. Only in the evening did I realize that I had taken a painkiller instead!
I like to call the act of causing the placebo effect "placeiving," a combination of placebo and deceiving.
You just killed it for me
1:46 WHAT of internal medicine?????