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Placebo: Can the Mind Cure You?
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Manfred's Weird Drink
Professor of medical psychology at university clinic essen in germany. Manfred schetlowsky is researching the placibo effect because he has a big dream. We have a vision that the patients do not have to take so many drugs. He would condition people's bodies to associate their medication with, get this, not an oxygen tank or a bell, but a weird drink. It looks like bright green milkshake, tastes of strawberry and smells like moth balls. And it worked. The brain was saying, hey, i remember this weird drink,. It means time to suppress the imune system. And off it goes. That's crazy. But are still pretty far away from man
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