how does placebo work when people know it is a placebo?
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A lot of people are saying we don’t know how placebos work, which is wrong.
We do know: they reduce stress through the patient believing they are receiving proper medication, thus making the immune system and other restorative processes in the body work like they should.
Stress messes up the effectiveness of your healing, removing it has the opposite effect.
If a placebo works on you even if you, the patient, know it’s a placebo, congratulations, you’ve tricked yourself into thinking the medication works, thus achieving the placebo effect of reduced stress.
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