The "miracle cure" with no medicine in them

I give my senior dog her arthritis medication every month. Theoretically it takes 24 hours to take full effect but she perks up right away when I give her the shot. She knows the medicine makes her feel better so when she gets a shot she starts feeling better right away!

"Ask your doctor if Placebo™ is right for you..!"

placebo is genuinely great. but it's not great for every use, and that's okay. we just need to apply it appropriately and not force it on patients who it clearly isn't working for, like the studied success rate of most SSRIs.

13:47 Representation is so important. It is extremely valuable to see people you respect, who "have their shit together," also appear to struggle with having pet hair stay on their clothes in professional settings.

I think my cat has the nocebo effect. I take her for a monoclonal antibody treatment each month for her arthritis. She gets so psyched out about going to the vet and spends the day acting like something terrible happened when it's no worse than any random vaccine.

hey neuro transmissions! would you want to do a video about the at-home ketamine therapy companies? while there's decent videos online about ketamine's general benefits and risks, i don't see anyone digging into these more affordable at-home practices and the safety based research. just a suggestion if you're interested!!

Getting a blood test makes me feel like my body is falling apart. I can't imagine thinking I'm getting better from a bloodletting 😭

Thanks for such an informative talk. I didn't expect to learn anything, thinking the little I knew for decades about placebos was all there was. I guess you could say Dunning and Kruger recommended this video to me LOL.

The little we know about the Placebo effect allows us to postulate that it is possible that when more research has been done on the subject, we will be able not only to make more extensive use of it, but also to better understand the way in which the human brain manages the mental correlate of "reality". I believe that it would be valuable to know if there is evidence of the effective functioning of the placebo effect when the placebo is applied to a non-human animal. My congratulations for the video.

If a Dr. gives you a placebo instead of real medicine, do you still get charged as if you got the real medicine?

Had a friend whose parents were members some kind of Indian cult where they used homeopathy. So my friend got homepathy pills for all sickness and pains as a kid and he thought it really worked. I'm assuming these were belly aches and coughs, so that's pretty innocent. I think just the fact that their mom could do something for any ache and pain was really comforting. It felt safe. Luckily, my friend never had a serious disease growing up, but it could have ended really badly. Their mom passed away from Cancer when we were teens. I always wondered if the homeopathy had something to do with that.

Thanks for this! Interesting parallel with psychedelic treatment modalities, and now you've got me curious about placebo effect on less than mainstream medical treatments...I think the same can be said about the anecdotal "life-saving" advice attributed to podcasters and wellness gurus shilling unsubstantiated protocols and greens powders. Feeling like a lifestyle change has made a difference, likely will make a difference in how one feels, rather than the protocol itself or the supplement du jour. Is there an "aspirational placebo"? Anywhooo, great content as always! :)

Love the science. Great video. But, how can I bottle the placebo effect so it can heal depression? 😊

And then i got the shingles vaccine. First shot, no problem. I never worried, and was then totally blindsided when the second one knocked me on my butt. I had expected to be fine. To date this is the only vaccine that made me sick.

7:33 Picture is of Henry Ward Beecher (clergyman), and not of Henry K. Beecher (anesthesiologist)

weren't there a few studies that showed that a majority of the benefit from SSRIs comes from placebo, or if not the majority at least a large part especially with sertraline..... I maybe shouldve watched more than 2 minutes before commenting LMAO

Hypnobirthing. I had a friend who swore by it. I was skeptical, but during peak (back-to-back) contractions I was briefly able to not feel ANY pain. Our brains are very powerful.

For diseases such as ulcerative colitis, effective treatment can be the difference between a bowel section and a relatively normal life. Experimenting with a <40% chance of remission with placebo for remission is a little too low when the alternative will eventually be life-altering surgery and a colostomy bag.

The placebo effect extends beyond medicine! A good example are the various audiophile gadgets for improving sound, that audiophiles claim actually work. And it seems that the more expensive the gadget, the better it works...

Thanks for such an informative video. All hail the Algorithm