The Placebo Effect

A placebo is a treatment that has no therapeutic effect, but still heals, as if by magic. Common placebos include sugar pills, saline injections, other treatments, and surgeries that are completely played. Placebos are particularly effective in treating pain, chronic stress-related diseases such as insomnia, and some forms of depression. What most people don't know is that although the placebos themselves don't work, the placebo effect still works. Even if you get a real treatment from a doctor. Special thanks to our Patreons: Avigail, Badrah, Cedric Wang, David Markham, Denis Kraus, Don Bone, Esther Chiang, Eva Marie Koblin, John Zhang, Julien Dumesnil, Mathis Nu - and all the others!! They keep us on our toes! If you want to join us, go to: /Sprouts you can read the whole script here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HWWaR8JE-I6yWfot7hhqSDcgeScciIZhG5v4_PqDiiA/edit?tab=t.0 Sources: Rethinking the placebo response from a broad anthropological perspective https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2730465/ Sham Surgeries: A Story of Medical Reversals & the Role of the Media https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/12/sham-surgery-medical-reversals-media/ Placebo effect of the heart https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/placebo-effect-of-the-heart/545012/ The Neuroscience of Placebo Effects: Connecting Context, Learning, and Health https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6013051/ Two-year results of a randomized placebo-controlled study on vertebroplasty in acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2... Treatment of spinal fractures https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/health/spinal-fracture-treatment.html The Most Honest Placebo Studies https://hms.harvard.edu/news/placebos-work-even-without-deception Original: "Sprouts Germany" Original: German. All translations in this video have been done by the alugha AI.

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