How does the placebo effect work?

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Taking a sugar pill can sometimes lead to real improvements in health. How does believing in a treatment, even when it’s fake, trigger physical changes in our bodies?

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Here’s an interesting fact: there is also an nocebo effect ( thinking something will harm you does) and an anticebo effect (believing that a medicine won’t help you and so it won’t)

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