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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People get very worked up over the placebo effect but it should be noted that the effect is not reproducible, even on the same patient. And there is also an anti-placebo effect as well.

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