How does placebo actually work, medically ?

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Like how does the pill translate to feeling well in reality just through imagination /perception of the problem being solved / altered .

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A Nobel prize awaits for the person who figures it out. If we knew we could exclude the placebo effect from medical studies and make better medicine.

There are many theories about what might cause placebo effects, Wikipedia has a good overview of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

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