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

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Placebl Effects in Surgery

We do construct our own reality to a certain extent. It's based on certain information that's coming into us. How things taste, how things look, even depends on our sort of previous expectations. We saw this in the book with the different types of pills. You take two pills, they work better; you take a big pill, it works better. You take a pill that's certain colour, works better. The more dramatic the treatment, the bigger the placebl effect.

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