The Placebo Effect Is Real: How Belief Changes the Brain and Body

Ep 165. The Placebo Effect: How Belief Can Change What the Body Experiences What if the placebo effect isn't evidence that nothing happened? What if it is evidence that something happened without the mechanism we expected? For generations, placebo has sometimes been casually described as the fake treatment used to determine whether a medication really works. But the placebo response itself is not necessarily fake. Modern research has demonstrated that expectations, previous experience, c...