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David Robson

Better Known

CHAPTER

The Effects of Pain on the Brain

If you believe you're receiving pain relief, the brain can start to make its own endogenous opioids. Even if you take a placebo pill, sometimes that can be around half as effective as actually having a dose of morphine. But the flip side is that it puts the brain and body into this kind of state of high alert. That might have worked well in nature but we don't want our pain signals to be amplified today.

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