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

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Power of the Mind in Medicine

There's very little evidence for a strong pasibo effect when it comes to actually shrinking that tumor. So this is not a case of throwing out physical treatment. We still need physical treatment. But i think we've gone too far the other way. We're in a situation where we're using drugs for everything, regardless and we're using much higher dosis than we need to. By incorporating the power of the mind back into medicine, i think that would help us to just reduce that reliance on drugs and physical treatment.

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