Hope the ceann is good today Joseph, head up boy it’s the only way
I heard an interview with Dr Michael Mosley today, apparently placebos can work for depression, the immune system, pain etc. He also said that drugs such as morphine stopped working when the patient was told it was a placebo, yet a placebo can work even when the patient knows it’s a placebo.
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Heard Dr Rhonda Patrick state the same in a recent interview.
Isn’t ‘Rhona’ a woman’s name??
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Edited mate… Its Rhonda
The placebo effect is hardly a new discovery. Dr John Haygarth wrote a book in 1799 called “On the imagination as a cause and of a cure of disorders of the body”. Arguably most of medicine up to the twentieth century was based on the placebo effect.
I haven’t watched the programme but I think the study shows that the brain may be capable of releasing ‘drugs’ that are appropriate and more effective than those prescribed by doctors
If the brain has the power to make you blow your load without you physically touching your little general then it certainly has a lot more power than we have tapped into.
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Mind over splatter
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Who have you been talking to?
Lots of people.
If we’re talking specifically about depression studies have shown that placebo has about twice the effect of anti-depressants.
Mighty tack
just to confirm ,you knew this off the top of your head?
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Yes mate. My area of specialization is the mind-brain problem. Why do you think I spend my valuable time on TFK? There’s enough material here in an average week to write a thesis.
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