The power of the placebo effect - Emma Bryce
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The placebo effect is an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapies that aren’t supposed to have an effect — and are often fake — miraculously make people feel better. What’s going on? Emma Bryce dives into the mystery of placebos’ bizarre benefits.
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Do you think the placebo effect is real or imagined? What makes you believe so?
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Jeremiah Leiran
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causes are very real. It’s a fascinating example of how our thoughts and beliefs can impact our health!
Jeremiah Leiran
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Yes placebocauses are very real. It’s a fascinating example of how our thoughts and beliefs can impact our health!
Vanessa Lopez
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I think the placebo effect is real but its functions as a medicine is only to make the patient believe that he will improve,knowing that the patient is in the power of the mind.Even though the development of this study,it can also be said that some patients take placebo instead of the real treatment because many of them can damage the body's organs over time but not placebo no why its effect is not real as a medicine .
Pedro Yan
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I believe it's real, the human mind is impossible to decipher, the generation of endorphins and similar enzymes are stimulated through points we don't know what they are and how placebos activate them in our brain making patients feel better. Each and every psychological effect, although it is a fake treatment, brings real results.
Yuri Agata
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I believe that the placebo effect is real. The fact that placebos exert influences on your heart rate, stress hormones, endorphins, and blood pressures indicate their effectiveness against ailments. However this effect may be just one part of psychological phenomena. It seems that patients believe the efficacy of placebos, causing them to feel better and deceiving their brains to think that their health is improving. Although they I only have temporary effects, the effect is notable.
Angelena Kamps
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I think that the placebo effect is imagined because it is not a real drug.
Selina Zeng
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I believe it is real since there is actual proof that it works. I think it should only be used in minor situations like headaches and other pain though since it is a fake *********** and the pain is only temporary.
Isabella Lewis
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I think it is both in a way, why I think it is real is you can see that people feel better after taking the pill. But yet again people could be faking it just to please a doctor and there not really feeling better.
Allison Klamik
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I think the effect is real because if you truly believe you are getting better, that can actually make it better sometimes.
Lisaa Jefferson
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Lisa Jefferson. I believe that the placebo effect Israel because the mind is a very powerful thing. I believe that the placebo effect should only be used in minor circumstances but I do believe that it might make people feel better.
