- katja ( @katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English69•4 months ago
The funny thing is that the “extra strength” placebos likely have a better chance of working. The more elaborate and involved the placebo is, the greater the chance of it actually working even if you know it is a placebo. Our minds are weird. As always, I’m too lazy to look up the actual study so I don’t know if it was a quality study or not.
- melooone ( @melooone@feddit.de ) English8•4 months ago
This reminded me of an episode of Mind Field, which shows significant improvent in cases of ADHD, Migraines, and a skin picking disorder in kids just through the placebo effect.
They use elaborate set ups and suggestions like a turned off MRI machine, fake nurses and doctors in lab coats, etc. And the kids are actually told, that it’s their brain doing the healing, not the machine.
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) English7•4 months ago
Yeah, I heard that the placebo effect for pain meds is stronger in the US (than in Europe?) because there’s more advertisment for it in the US (how they made sure this is causation and not correlation I have no idea, though …)
- variants ( @variants@possumpat.io ) English7•4 months ago
But you also might get more nocebos where you get negative effects from the placebo
- Blackmist ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English5•4 months ago
I believe it’s red placebos that are better at helping with pain.
The brain is a fucky old thing.
- Duranie ( @Duranie@literature.cafe ) English5•4 months ago
It’s been a while since I looked at this, but different color pills “work” better for different ailments. Also the size and numbers of pills effect results as well. Two pills are “stronger” than one, bigger pills over smaller as well.
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English24•4 months ago
People wanna tell me there’s no such thing as magic in a world where The Placebo Effect exists. Bro’s got a low level healing spell that grows stronger the more he believes it works.
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English3•4 months ago
Also money. It only works if you believe in it, yet it controls all of society
- lars ( @lars@lemmy.sdf.org ) English16•4 months ago
If it works. I do not care how.
- thatsTheCatch ( @thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz ) English2•4 months ago
I agree. However, to me, something feels wrong about companies making money selling a product to people with the promise that they work when they don’t actually do anything in and of themselves. It’s false advertising plus taking money out of people’s pockets.
- el_abuelo ( @el_abuelo@lemmy.ml ) English1•4 months ago
It’s not stupid if it works
- lugal ( @lugal@lemmy.ml ) English15•4 months ago
But be careful with the dose
- SurpriZe ( @SurpriZe@lemm.ee ) English2•4 months ago
Just pretend you took an ephemeral pill. Placebos work like that too.
- ryan213 ( @ryan213@lemmy.ca ) English10•4 months ago
I just go with whatever’s on sale.
- sik0fewl ( @sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ) English3•4 months ago
For me, it’s whatever is in the biggest bottle.
- ryan213 ( @ryan213@lemmy.ca ) English2•4 months ago
Sometimes the shiniest, too!
- 667 ( @667@lemmy.radio ) English3•4 months ago
Old-timey labels appeal to me
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) English4•4 months ago
Brand Named Extra Strength!
- linuxgator ( @user1234@lemmynsfw.com ) English4•4 months ago
Placebo is one of the most underrated bands.
- popcap200 ( @popcap200@lemmy.ml ) English2•4 months ago
This is very true after learning about guaifenesin, phenylephrine, and Docusate Sodium.
- Muscar ( @Muscar@discuss.online ) English1•4 months ago
Very relevant and pretty recent SciShow episode: