Placebos prove that our bodies could heal us, but choose not to.
Lazy millennial blood cells.
Yeah if your blood cells would stop eating so much avocado toast maybe they could afford a house!
Make coffee at home and buy aspirin.
Nobody wants to work anymore!
*no active ingredient, placebo does have an effect
But it’s not the healing kind, just makes you feel like it is. Which sometimes is enough…? Ok, it is potentially the healing kind, then.
remember, it works best when a man in a doctor’s coat gives it to you!
Can placebos actually work purely on with a mental effect?
Yeah I’m pretty sure that’s what placebo means.
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Self hypnosis is a good example. You can cause large scale changes in mental feedback loops, with nothing but some effort and a guiding voice. It’s to the point where people have had surgery without anesthetic. They used hypnosis to literally turn off pain.
I suspect most placebo effects work through the same pathways in the brain. The trick is tapping into them and creating a new stable feedback loop.
It blows my mind that the whole antihistamine market is just a bunch of decongestants. WHERE DO MY ITCHES GO!?
What’s really wild is that the side effect of coming off of stuff like zyrtec is ITCHING. Once I got through the itchy “withdrawals” I hardly ever needed it anymore other than occasional bad reactions. Like, wtf? They really make it seem like it should be taken every day when it absolutely shouldn’t. Not to mention the weird weight gain it causes that they never seem to mention anywhere ever.
Obviously everyone’s mileage may vary but it’s kinda creepy looking into antihistamines and some of their shenanigans that get swept under the rug.
