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716: Jo Marchant | Placebos and the Science of Mind over Body
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Is the Placebo Effect Limiting the Body's Physiology?
The brain is in constant two way communication with the immune system, determining how the system should be regulated depending on our environment. So these thoughts and beliefs and emotions are causing different transmitters to be released that change levels of symptoms we experience. If you've got a drug, you can give much higher doses of something that the body could ever make, but then you also get into the realm of problems with side effects, tolerance, addiction. And so generally, if we have an effective medical treatment, then i don't think it makes sense to suddenly switch to pacibos.
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