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

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Mind and the Body Are Entwined

If a treatment works no better than placibo, it just doesn't work. That's not really the case any more or at least that's what your arguing is no longer the case, or has never been the case. The mind and body are entwined - if you have a change in the body, you have a changed in the mind. And i think the sceptics are like wil the mind couldn't possibly cure anything again. They've got this idea of it some sort of ephemeral thing. But yet, for me, the scientific view is that the minds working through defined biological pathways we can study scientifically. These are the same pathways that we take advantage of when we

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