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716: Jo Marchant | Placebos and the Science of Mind over Body

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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What's Happening in the Brain After Taking Pacibo?

When someone responds to a percibo pain killer, neure scientist can see the release of indorphins in the brain. This is exactly the same pathway that opioid drugs like morphine work through. And so again and again, researchers are finding we don't imagine the improvement that we see after taking a pacibo. It's actually a real biological change. Ye the quack claims, i thing underlying that is this idea that we've got this mysterious, magical force of the mind that doesn't need to obey scientific rules,. therefore it can pretty much cure anything. Anyone who believes so is full of crap. Were easily deluded.

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