When you experience a placebo effect, how does your body know what chemicals to produce?
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Shortest answer: we don’t entirely know.
More complete answer: the human body is an immensely complicated machine. A scratch on your foot can result in you craving (for example, I’m guessing on the specific food) chicken wings, because one part of you recognises something that is damaged, another part recognises what nutrients are needed to fix it, and another part compares those nutrients against what your body has recognised after eating different things before, and suddenly you have a craving.
In many cases, the placebo effect occurs because your body doesn’t know how to solve/heal a problem/wound, but once it gets the feedback that the issue is being dealt with, it starts pumping nutrients/antibodies/other problem solving resources to that point, and those things heal the problem themselves.
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