When you experience a placebo effect, how does your body know what chemicals to produce?
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There is no proof that the placebo actually does any healing.
It might be that the effect is purely psychological: the brain thinks, that the issue has been dealt with, so it ignores the alerts from the body. It just makes you feel fine, without actual healing. It might work with minor diseases that your body can heal by itself, but deadly diseases will kill you anyway.
There is only one proven effect: when the brain experiences fear or anxiety – it can put the body on a “combat-ready alert”. This makes the body halt or slow down any healing to save the resources for a short-term survival. Being calm and relaxed cancels the alert – that allows the healing to continue. But again – that’s not enough with serious diseases – they can kill you even at your fill healing strength. Calm mind is not a substitute for a medical help.
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