All right, for the record, the Star Wars jokes were just that - jokes. I didn't hate Rise of Skywalker. There was some stuff in there that clearly irked me, but, hey, it's a Star Wars film. Don't take it too seriously. 😉
Bt they weren't in space when they were on the horse things they were in the atmosphere of excegol the sith planet, I will admit however that it was probably very very windy up there 😂 great video BTW xx
I always forget to use the placebo effect to my advantage. One of these days I'll remember to invent a "stop procrastinating" drug and then imagine myself taking it.
@@InvasionAnimation There's an old mp3 called Stop Procrastinating, if you can find it somewhere. It has the soft sounds of a beach with waves coming in and perhaps very faint seagull squawks, but there's a subliminal message hidden in it. It works really well. There was stuff I had been putting off for maybe a year, and within five minutes, I had started doing it. Anyway, one needs to do away with the inner roadblocks you set up for yourself, and stop making excuses and doing other things merely to avoid doing the thing you actually want or need to do.
Hey you should do a video on “gut feelings” next. Apparently scientists are saying that your gut biomass actually acts as a second brain. So your gut feeling is actually a bunch of bacteria collectively telling you to not or do something.
Its not so much a biomass you have a Legit tiny brain in there. Although I do know dreams, which I suspected to come from that brain at least in part might be affected somehow. Specific foods and illness will clearly make one have vivid dreams or nightmares. I know to start taking VitC, Zinc and Echinacea as soon as I have vivid nightmares as it means a virus or something is inside 6fucking me up majority of the time.
@@RelativelyBest yeah exactly, that's all it was. It was like someone took all the dumb fan theories and made an awfully terrible fan fiction. Except it's canon.
@@lolgamez9171 I think the issue is if you want to make a "fun movie" just make a new IP. No expectations nothing to hold your project up to to compare they have to judge it on its merits. If you chose to make a star wars epic conclusion you have placed those expectations on yourself. Dont be surprised at the backlash when you had the hubris to tell everyone you can do the best job with this. I dont care because starwars is awesome to me but I enjoy other stories better it's not so closely tied to my childhood. But why build hype you cant live up to and be mad at everyone else when you fail to live up to the expectations you yourself set?
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Force healing in some of the books was pretty neat. A few Jedi with extreme patience and focus basically used telekinesis to stitch cells back together and remove poisons from the blood molecule by molecule. What it wasn't was magical regeneration in just a few seconds by waving your hands around.
By all means, blame Disney of screwing up production. But blame these idiots for being crap at writing: Rian Johnson Chris Terrio Derek Connolly Colin Trevorrow J.J. Abrams Disney obviously did not use the editor hammer well enough given the incoherent cluster fucks they allowed to happen.
I discovered once that a guy I knew was a flat earther. I started asking him a series of questions over a few days, until I finally got to Calculus, and that was when he blocked me.
Thank you for the great videos, Joe. I always find them refreshing, informative, and entertaining. I have a strong belief in the placebo effect. When I was 8, and living in group homes, I had appendicitis. I was so scared and sad, that I kept it to myself. The pain was so bad I couldn't get out of my bunk. I knew that If I could feel exactly where the pain was, I could control it. I could feel the pain was in my stomach, so I imagined a box around my stomach, and the pain, and just, in my mind, pushed it away. I could still see the box beside me, but if I kept it there, the pain was gone. I went on this way for around 2 weeks until I collapsed at school one day, when it finally burst. I was told that my appendix had burst into my stomach through an ulcer I was suffering from, and I was lucky to be alive. So, to this day I have no appendix, noticeable internal scarring, and a strong belief in the mind's ability to control pain. Thank you, again, for the great videos, Joe.
Some years ago, I went to the ER several times with extreme back pain. The first time, they gave me an injection of Morphine, but it actually seemed to have no effect. *Do note that I didn't use nor abuse drugs, so there was no tolerance to opioids.* The second time, was something a bit stronger (sorry, don't recall the name), with minimal effect. The third time, they gave me Dilaudid and I finally had some relief (just about knocked me out, actually). They also decided to give me a CAT scan, as there was concern I was faking it to get the meds, but as it turned out, I wasn't faking it at all (I knew that). Due to an injury some 30 years prior, my lower back was in very nasty shape, with herniated discs, and a couple that had actually ruptured, along with major compression of the nerves leading to my legs. Things are better now, although I still can just barely walk. Comprehensive treatment has made a major difference for me, and gave me my life back. I do wonder, however, why the Morphine seemed to do nothing, when my expectation was I would get relief, especially considering that it wasn't a placebo.
Apologies if someone has already mentioned this, but it may be worth looking into yoga. A friend of mine has scoliosis of the spine and it helps her immensely...... 👌🏻☺️
I've known a few people who just aren't affected by opioids. And a larger number who aren't affected by novacaine. A percentage of the Korean population metabolize alcohol better and it takes much more for them to get drink and they don't suffer as much from hangovers. That percentage is dropping, btw. I don't know why. On the placebo effect, a couple thoughts. Some possibilities and personalities just don't respond as well to the placebo effect. As in the one example and the high altitude oxygen experiment, your body didn't have the previous experience of pain relief from morphine.
I did the cancer thing 10 years ago. I had the attitude that the doc's are really good at dealing with it and it would only be a minor inconvenience. Knocked me around more than I expected but I maintained a positive feeling and recovered much faster than normal. All the docs were very impressed and praised my attitude and determination. There is a lot to be said for the power of positive thinking. Not seen "Rise" yet but looking forward to a good laugh.
After working for years in medicine, before having a horrific rock climbing accident, I saw this many times. It is absolutely real. I saw guys from Afghanistan who couldn’t walk after treatment for a serious injury. When a neurologist came in and told them there was no reason they couldn’t walk…about a third of them leaned into their PT and within days were walking. So much healing is how hard the patient really wants to recover and be rid of the Dr and medicine….or how much they think they can’t live normally without it.
I'm really surprised that hypnotherapy was not a part of this topic. That and homeopathy go hand-in-hand with the placebo effect. I'd love to hear your take on this Joe!
I have some faith in homeopathy because my mom is a homeopath, and it's worked on a lot of things for me. In fact, it's helping cure my ringworm patch right now
4:53 - If I’m not mistaken... You may wanna re-watch that movie. These ships weren’t in space yet... actually that’s the whole reason they were attacking. They were trying to prevent them from leaving the planet.
@B. Winky - I’m sure there are planets that are not inhabitable, I’m pretty sure the cartoons had a couple. But like @Greg Stella pointed out, it doesn’t make much sense to have much of value placed on a planet that can’t sustain life... plus you get into StarTrek/StarGate territory when you add space suits and what not.
You are the only You Tuber I have seen who is able to flow so seamlessly into your commercial that I don't even notice it happening. And with all them high falutin words to boot!
I used to teach drug-dose calculation and drug administration in a nursing program. I recognized a lot of the material covered by Joe in this video, because I included a lot of the same content in my lectures. Good work on this subject Joe.
I love these videos, and this was very informative (and hilarious!), but I'm pretty disappointed that there was no mention at all of contemporary psychedelic therapies or of ancient entheogenic customs. The DMT in ayahuasca and the psilocybin in magic mushrooms, for instance, are still used in indigenous communities as medicines for ailments of the body as well as the "soul" or "self", after hundreds or thousands of years of tradition. The link between consciousness and healing is still such a mystery to science that we should be using (and talking about) all the available resources we have to see if there is something missing in the way we approach the psyche and its limits.The many organisations and universities around the globe studying and implementing psychedelic research and therapy are well beyond second-guessing about the benefits of the responsible expansion of consciousness and the subsequent rewiring of the brain due to its neuroplasticity.
Isn't the US one of the ONLY countries that hasn't banned it? During grad school over there the topic came up, and the US seemed like one of the few or only.
I was just watching your video on the population explosion and it got me thinking about soil science, have you ever considered doing a video on soil organisms and their ability to sequester carbon, also no till farming?
5:07 No, they're not in space. That was kind of the whole point. They were stuck in atmosphere unable to navigate out of whatever hellscape awaited them in actual space.
Not just the writing, the execution, the special effects, etc. just a horrible made, horribly written price of garbage. When you compare it to the original Star Wars movies of course. That’s the whole issue. There are 10 movies before it that are 1000x better.
When I was a kid I learned about placebos by watching MASH. There was an episode where the morphine supply had gone bad or something so they had to give the patients sugar pills.
A combination of fascinating topics, facts explained in plain language, absence of any conspiracy theory nonsense interspersed with dry, raw humour, makes for fascinating and stimulating listening GREAT job Joe Scott
I'm not a doctor, but this still pisses me off. I trust my doctor to know more about medicine than I do, since it's his fucking job, so I don't go into his office and "ask him" about some drug I saw on TV.
I broke my neck, have a C5-6 spinal cord injury, on a respirator, and completely paralyzed from my neck down. I was able to get off the respirator and got back the ability to move my shoulders and biceps. That was relatively common for most quad's. But 3 months later I started recovering functions in my legs. When I got out of the hospital 6 months later, I was able to walk on my own. I ended up with the only limb that I had complete function in, is my left leg. The return I had, had never been seen in that spinal cord rehab center. I was the 1:1,000,000 case. What I've never told anybody, was that I've always believed that the brain and body have an ability to repair itself when it's asked to do so. I had been shown a picture of the damage to the spinal cord. So every night when they put me to bed, I pictured that damage of the cord in my mind, and then pictured my body repairing that damage. There's a lot more to it than just that, but the return I had that late into the injury just doesn't happen. I was having return faster than the O.T.'s & P.T.'s could keep up with. Things aren't perfect. I wear a brace on my right leg and only have active function in 2 fingers. They're also on the left side, but the important thing about that is I can go through a drive-thru. A spinal cord is about the thickness of you little finger, and has the consistency of a banana. When you look at the MRI of my cord, you can see a little tiny thread that runs past the defamatory of the bones that were fractured. That tiny thread is all that exists of my cord at that spot. 20 years post injury I'm having problems at that spot in the spine. Most neurosurgeons don't want to touch my case. I'll have to have it done at a teaching hospital. Yes, the human mind is far more powerful than we think. It's just proving it.
Actually as I was around 11y old I didnt wanted to go to school the next day at all. But there was no reason to not go because I felt absolutely fine. So I went in front of the oven and sat down as near as possible that the heat isnt that uncomftable. Than I wiggled a bit to the left and right and concentrated the whole time (for I think half an hour to max. an hour) on the feeling when Im ill. At the next day I had fever and felt very dizzy. It was very weird and it might have only been an coincidence but yeah. The placebo effect in general is such an interesting theme.
Lucozade used to be really expensive, only sold in chemists and the bottle was wrapped up in orange cellophane. Us kids were only given Lucozade when we were REALLY poorly, and it did make us feel better!
This is such a fascinating topic. I can see it with pain, anxiety, depression, subjective experiences, etc, but have there been any studies done with placebo antibiotics or the like?
"Why do we stop re-growing our teeth?" - a pertinent question. What's up with that? Why does it stop happening all of a sudden? From an evolutionary standpoint it just doesn't make any sense ... we _need_ our teeth right up until the moment of death so it doesn't make sense that this is some sort of evolutionary trait. Is it possible that we stopped re-growing our teeth due to some sort of placebo effect?
incorrect.. You need your teeth up until you reproduce.... and then to a smaller degree : sufficiently raise and protect your young.. After that your existence, and evolutionary influence is questionable :)
@@justinmallaiz4549 By that logic you might as well say as soon as we reproduce _we_ aren't needed any more, yet our hands don't rot and fall off, nor our feet. We continue to survive after because it's in our genes to do so, regardless of whether or not nor how many times we reproduce, and in order to survive we _must_ eat. I still don't get it. It still bothers me. I can't see any reason why we would stop growing our teeth. An adult body has everything it needs to produce a new tooth and we all _know_ it has the ability because we've _all_ re-grown teeth so ... I dunno, what is it that turns that mechanism off? It's not like producing a new tooth will kill you.
5:05 You brought up many good points in this video but this one is the only one I take issue with. They're not in space, the whole battle takes place on a planet -- hence the crashing ships hitting the ground. There's generally not ground in space. We could get into why humans seem to be able to breathe on all planets and how that's possible, but that's a whole franchise problem.
I was once in inpatient and everyone around me was catching a really bad chest cold. Everyone was talking about how afraid they were that they were going to get sick. They all got sick. I spent the whole time saying I'm not going to get sick because I believe I'm not going to get sick. I was the only one in there that did not get sick. I know this doesn't really prove anything, but it sure made me think. And no I did not take any preventative measures.
I worked for a company that packaged the same product two different ways. The product in, "premium", packaging sold better even though it had a bigger price tag. On the other end of the spectrum, I underwent ketamine treatment for depression. My research gave me hope that it would be what I needed to break out of a suicidal mindset. It had a small effect after the first treatment, but no effect from subsequent treatments; even though they increased the dosage. It seems depression is too tenacious to be affected by the placebo effect.
It’s interesting what you said about pharmaceutical adverts potentially changing the effectiveness of drugs. Here in Australia we have a ban on consumer marketing for prescription pharmaceuticals. I’d be interested to see a comparative study between countries with strict advertising laws around pharmaceuticals and those without
Oh whatever, some people will never be satisfied no matter what because it’s just “not the same!” As the original trilogy. I very much enjoyed the new movies and you know what else? I grew up on the prequels and they’re still by far my favorite.
I remember having something like the nocebo effect. was about to go into surgery with spinal anesthesia. was scared about the needles, got something to calm me down before. I was so stressed about the big needle and thinking the meds were never going to calm down enough and went into an absolute panic spiral which was probably way worse than it would have been if i hadn't been given anything at all lol
I had an experience with the nocebo effect. I was on a drug called metoclopramide for almost 2 years with no side effects. In March 2021, I saw a post on reddit by someone else on the drug talking about how they'd had a side effect from it they hadn't expected- they started spontaneously lactating despite never having been pregnant. I was thinking "wow, I'm glad I saw this, so I know what's happening if this happens to me." Three months later, on my birthday, I woke up to discover that, lo and behold, I was lactating. I was not and had never been pregnant at the time. I'm fairly certain that my new knowledge of the potential side effect played a part in me experiencing it, since I'd gone so long with none and then it suddenly happened when I learned about it.
So very true. I am a Paraplegic who was paralyzed at T11-T12. I have constant chronic pain for the past 30 years. The pain is from below my injury. My spinal cord sends pain signal constantly to my brain. Even though I can't feel that area and the area is not in distress or pain. But that does not stop me from experiencing pain all day long. They still do not know exactly why the spinal cord does this. Still waiting to be fixed so I can be without pain!!!! I
Srt-10 Mopar - this is true. The development of Morphine predated the discovery of endorphins by 172 years (assuming the dates on Wikipedia are correct). Thus, the naming occurred in reverse order to what you might classically expect.
In the 70s and 80s universities in Arizona and New Mexico were reaching to the medicine people of the Navajo, Zuni and Hopi to teach their healing ceremonies in their medical programs because they seemed to work very well especially with the tribal peoples, no surprise there. A teaching hospital in New England started a similar program, reaching out to Hindi, Buddhist and other ethnic faith traditions to work with patients of those traditions. It's called the holistic approch.
The brain is also shockingly good at blocking out memories of pain and trauma. To be shown in dreams later... I’m still remembering things from my almost-dying over two years ago
I don't have a problem with placebo therapy, as long as it works for a person and no one is getting rich off selling non-science backed _cures_ for deadly diseases or people arent giving advice that may end up harming a person. Ex: don't give your child Tamiflu, give him thyme & elderberries instead...
i suffer from awful anxiety, i've not really left my house in 8 months, like at all, i switched medications, and i think the placebo effect made me not realise the drugs weren't making me better, infact things are much much worse now. but at the start, it was working almost too well. now i feel like an idiot, and the added benefit of having to change medication again, which anyone who's done it with certain high-dose anti-depressants can tell you, isn't much fun
Placebo effect: when I was living with a bunch of buddies (Navy off-base housing) one suffered from his shoulder dislocating very easy. If you've ever dislocated a shoulder, you know it's friggin painful. One night we woke to him screaming in pain. Apparently he had dislocated it in his sleep. We had fo call the ambulance to get him. Me and another dude went with him. He was screaming so bad. The ambulance dude told him that he wasn't supposed to do it, but if he was really in that much pain, he can give him morphine. My bud screamed at him to do it. So he injected him. Immediately, my bud calms down, n passes out. When we got to the hospital, they were taking him in and he was super loopy. It was hilarious. We thanked the guy for injecting him. My bud mentioned that he thought they weren't allowed to carry morphine in the ambulance. The guy said it was no big deal, cuz he only injected him with saline, nothing more. We were dumbfounded. He said it happens every time he has to fake morphine. They calm right down. But yeah, they can act loopy too. Craziness.
Those stock pictures (11:00-12:00)used to illustrate the placebo overdose got me going for a while...I thought that was really the poor guy dying from his inert pills, I felt compassion, empathy, my heart was racing, my eyes tearing up...but then I realized my confusion. So I didn't give a sh-t anymore
I have chronic pain I listen to binaural beats for pain relief. And it really helps. 50% chance the audio is changing the way my brain processes pain signals 50% chance it is all placebo effect. Either way, it keeps me sane and helps me manage my condition without becoming dependent on opioids.
For me to come back and have my consciousness put into a vessel as you said, I Think for me it would have to be a miniature vessel attached to a robot that has the ability to replace your original body because then your mind can still interact with your surroundings and have free will to do what you want, where if your just sitting in a bowl that would be like being locked in a little cell, of course if you had the ability to make a virtual existence and surrounding on the internet you could virtual go anywhere in a virtual reality, but I think I would rather have the ability to go physically and also have a body to react in the physical world even if it was robotic,!!
I, for one, love your film critique! I enjoyed Rise of Skywalker but it was a psychedelic dream sequence of a movie where everything felt like star wars but nothing made sense.
Thanks for all your informational content. I wake up every morning and watch your videos while drinking my coffee. I feel you’ve made me smarter by watching! Great stuff! Can’t wait to see what’s next!!
I agree with your criticism of the movie, but the riding scene took place within the planet's atmosphere. It was a big plot point that for whatever reason the ships could not leave the atmosphere and go into orbit without signal from the tower thingy. Of course that plot point is rife with issues of its own.
Old Bene Gesserit hormone control >.> Blood flow control, breathing control, every cell being an extension of the brain like a squid, you don't think about your nervous system to move your arm, you simply move your arm, you connect somewhere and command an outcome. PS : Also, auto-suggestion.
I was all like "Have I forgotten a lot of stuff from the first two movies or is he referencing stuff from the latest one I haven't seen yet? No, he can't be doing that, all those spoilers. That would be inconsiderate of of him and he doesn't seem like an inconsiderate person" And then it turns it was from the latest one... Otherwise a great video and I still love you :)
People with something previously known as multiple personality disorder (MPD), now called dissociative identity disorder (DID), have shown some interesting physiological differences between personalities. Occasionally one will have a disease such as diabetes, and another won't. Or different eye color from one to the other. This was one of the first things that showed me the power of the mind.
I think the shields in starwars hold in a pressurized atmosphere. Might explain why noone gets sucked out of the ships when they get holes blasted in them.
Great subject matter / content as always. I loved the Star Wars comments as well. Hey you’re just raising the level of awareness. With all of your observations...I was like-dang he’s right that was totally ridiculous! But hey Star Wars is “science fantasy’ if you want ‘science fiction’ watch the Expanse! 😄 or even Firefly / Serenity!
All right, for the record, the Star Wars jokes were just that - jokes. I didn't hate Rise of Skywalker. There was some stuff in there that clearly irked me, but, hey, it's a Star Wars film. Don't take it too seriously. 😉
Bt they weren't in space when they were on the horse things they were in the atmosphere of excegol the sith planet, I will admit however that it was probably very very windy up there 😂 great video BTW xx
Rise of skywalker sucked dont try to make lucasfilm feel better 😆
Joe Scott I don’t think I’ll bother watching RoS based on your quick review haha, my brain will likely find that experience incredibly frustrating.
But you're saying all the right things Joe!
Star Wars is a dead meme
I always forget to use the placebo effect to my advantage. One of these days I'll remember to invent a "stop procrastinating" drug and then imagine myself taking it.
I need some too. I been trying to make a comic book for 2 years, and I only drawn 3 panels.
@@InvasionAnimation There's an old mp3 called Stop Procrastinating, if you can find it somewhere. It has the soft sounds of a beach with waves coming in and perhaps very faint seagull squawks, but there's a subliminal message hidden in it.
It works really well. There was stuff I had been putting off for maybe a year, and within five minutes, I had started doing it.
Anyway, one needs to do away with the inner roadblocks you set up for yourself, and stop making excuses and doing other things merely to avoid doing the thing you actually want or need to do.
@@silvergreylion That sounds peaceful. Funnily enough I only completed 4 more panels since then. up to 7 now. i'll have to check out that mp3.
I got you fam, I already invented it. Matter fact, I been placing it in your food every day so you are good. You're welcome!
Go eat at Anteconfig house and bring your pencil. @@InvasionAnimation
Hey you should do a video on “gut feelings” next. Apparently scientists are saying that your gut biomass actually acts as a second brain. So your gut feeling is actually a bunch of bacteria collectively telling you to not or do something.
This!
Its not so much a biomass you have a Legit tiny brain in there. Although I do know dreams, which I suspected to come from that brain at least in part might be affected somehow. Specific foods and illness will clearly make one have vivid dreams or nightmares. I know to start taking VitC, Zinc and Echinacea as soon as I have vivid nightmares as it means a virus or something is inside 6fucking me up majority of the time.
Interesting
I didn't believe you so I did my own research and it's amazingly fascinatingly true!!
I think Joe has some issues with the most recent Star Wars movie... just maybe.
Don't really get it, personally. It was a fun movie.
Tbh your not a true fan if you don’t have a problem with the new movies
@@RelativelyBest yeah exactly, that's all it was. It was like someone took all the dumb fan theories and made an awfully terrible fan fiction. Except it's canon.
@@lolgamez9171 I think the issue is if you want to make a "fun movie" just make a new IP. No expectations nothing to hold your project up to to compare they have to judge it on its merits.
If you chose to make a star wars epic conclusion you have placed those expectations on yourself. Dont be surprised at the backlash when you had the hubris to tell everyone you can do the best job with this.
I dont care because starwars is awesome to me but I enjoy other stories better it's not so closely tied to my childhood. But why build hype you cant live up to and be mad at everyone else when you fail to live up to the expectations you yourself set?
@@ezmodey1105 I have no idea what you just said. It seems both circular and without reference all at once. :/
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
@John Barber XDDD
Even though I learned something, the bashing of Disney Star Wars was my favorite part.
Imagine of one of our medications were placebos.
@@honey5269I wouldn't care, as long as it worked!
i mean, darth plagueis had the power to bring his loved ones back to life...
but to be fair, that's not a story the *jedi* would tell you.
oh that's true
That was a placebo... His jedi status convinced the force to return... people a sith lord loved...
That's how I took it.
"Your brain has incredible healing powers"
My brain: *f̷r̷e̴n̴c̷h̴ ̸f̷r̵i̴e̶e̴*
I feel this on spiritual level, lol.
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Force healing in some of the books was pretty neat. A few Jedi with extreme patience and focus basically used telekinesis to stitch cells back together and remove poisons from the blood molecule by molecule. What it wasn't was magical regeneration in just a few seconds by waving your hands around.
Couldn't stop laughing at the Star Wars references, Disney understands the Star Wars about as well as a flat earther understands Newtonian physics
By all means, blame Disney of screwing up production.
But blame these idiots for being crap at writing:
Rian Johnson
Chris Terrio
Derek Connolly
Colin Trevorrow
J.J. Abrams
Disney obviously did not use the editor hammer well enough given the incoherent cluster fucks they allowed to happen.
@@mangalores-x_x but how do you *really* feel?
Yeh. That movie has absolutely no underlying structure of logic, and very little of story. All just plot and 'ooh, shiny!'
Haven´t even seen the film, but couldn´t stop laughing at them either. :D
I discovered once that a guy I knew was a flat earther. I started asking him a series of questions over a few days, until I finally got to Calculus, and that was when he blocked me.
Thank you for the great videos, Joe. I always find them refreshing, informative, and entertaining. I have a strong belief in the placebo effect. When I was 8, and living in group homes, I had appendicitis. I was so scared and sad, that I kept it to myself. The pain was so bad I couldn't get out of my bunk. I knew that If I could feel exactly where the pain was, I could control it. I could feel the pain was in my stomach, so I imagined a box around my stomach, and the pain, and just, in my mind, pushed it away. I could still see the box beside me, but if I kept it there, the pain was gone. I went on this way for around 2 weeks until I collapsed at school one day, when it finally burst. I was told that my appendix had burst into my stomach through an ulcer I was suffering from, and I was lucky to be alive. So, to this day I have no appendix, noticeable internal scarring, and a strong belief in the mind's ability to control pain. Thank you, again, for the great videos, Joe.
We get a Star Wars Rise of Skywalker review and a video about placebo at the same time, a 2-in-1 deal, can't complain about that 😏
It's a sweet deal! :)
TheHunterWolf yup 👍
"Goonies in space" killed me
Yup. Though i didn't like the comparison, mainly because Goonies is waaaaaaay better movie than this Star War travesty...
Some years ago, I went to the ER several times with extreme back pain. The first time, they gave me an injection of Morphine, but it actually seemed to have no effect. *Do note that I didn't use nor abuse drugs, so there was no tolerance to opioids.* The second time, was something a bit stronger (sorry, don't recall the name), with minimal effect. The third time, they gave me Dilaudid and I finally had some relief (just about knocked me out, actually).
They also decided to give me a CAT scan, as there was concern I was faking it to get the meds, but as it turned out, I wasn't faking it at all (I knew that). Due to an injury some 30 years prior, my lower back was in very nasty shape, with herniated discs, and a couple that had actually ruptured, along with major compression of the nerves leading to my legs.
Things are better now, although I still can just barely walk. Comprehensive treatment has made a major difference for me, and gave me my life back.
I do wonder, however, why the Morphine seemed to do nothing, when my expectation was I would get relief, especially considering that it wasn't a placebo.
Apologies if someone has already mentioned this, but it may be worth looking into yoga. A friend of mine has scoliosis of the spine and it helps her immensely...... 👌🏻☺️
that’s so interesting. i wonder if your biochemical makeup makes you less responsive to opioids in general 🤔
I've known a few people who just aren't affected by opioids. And a larger number who aren't affected by novacaine.
A percentage of the Korean population metabolize alcohol better and it takes much more for them to get drink and they don't suffer as much from hangovers. That percentage is dropping, btw. I don't know why.
On the placebo effect, a couple thoughts. Some possibilities and personalities just don't respond as well to the placebo effect.
As in the one example and the high altitude oxygen experiment, your body didn't have the previous experience of pain relief from morphine.
This was the best rise of skywalker review ive seen yet🤣
I did the cancer thing 10 years ago. I had the attitude that the doc's are really good at dealing with it and it would only be a minor inconvenience. Knocked me around more than I expected but I maintained a positive feeling and recovered much faster than normal. All the docs were very impressed and praised my attitude and determination. There is a lot to be said for the power of positive thinking.
Not seen "Rise" yet but looking forward to a good laugh.
Goonies in Space? That sounds like a compliment!
How come do you have that Joe icon beside your name? Is this some sort of way by TH-cam to recognize fans?
Channel memberships. 😉
Psssst! Boss Nass does the truffle shuffle, pass it on.
I haven’t seen a movie in forever, but I’d run there for Goonies In Space! But I’m pushing for Joe as the director!
After working for years in medicine, before having a horrific rock climbing accident, I saw this many times. It is absolutely real. I saw guys from Afghanistan who couldn’t walk after treatment for a serious injury. When a neurologist came in and told them there was no reason they couldn’t walk…about a third of them leaned into their PT and within days were walking. So much healing is how hard the patient really wants to recover and be rid of the Dr and medicine….or how much they think they can’t live normally without it.
I'm really surprised that hypnotherapy was not a part of this topic. That and homeopathy go hand-in-hand with the placebo effect. I'd love to hear your take on this Joe!
homeopathy doesn't work for me because i consider it placebo lmaooo
I have some faith in homeopathy because my mom is a homeopath, and it's worked on a lot of things for me. In fact, it's helping cure my ringworm patch right now
4:53 - If I’m not mistaken... You may wanna re-watch that movie. These ships weren’t in space yet... actually that’s the whole reason they were attacking. They were trying to prevent them from leaving the planet.
Levi M Luke you’re correct. But why is every planet in StarWars terraformed?
@@reddcube Why would they go to any of the ones that aren't habitable?
@B. Winky - I’m sure there are planets that are not inhabitable, I’m pretty sure the cartoons had a couple. But like @Greg Stella pointed out, it doesn’t make much sense to have much of value placed on a planet that can’t sustain life... plus you get into StarTrek/StarGate territory when you add space suits and what not.
Erm... I think the word you're looking for is "were." Were attacking. Were trying.
"Willie" delivery was perfect. Thankfully, I had just swallowed my coffee.
When I saw that scene with the space horses, my first thought was, “Did Boyega win a bet?”
I remember seeing a print ad once for "Genuine Placebo Aphrodesiacs."
That name is contradictory and confusing and I love it!
*Joe: Posts Video
*Me: Likes before the video begins
Love your stuff my guy
I have an Extension on Chrome so every video I watch gets a 'like' unless I actively select 'dislike'.
Came for learning about mysterious brain powers. Stayed for the Star Wars roast 🙂
You are the only You Tuber I have seen who is able to flow so seamlessly into your commercial that I don't even notice it happening. And with all them high falutin words to boot!
I used to teach drug-dose calculation and drug administration in a nursing program. I recognized a lot of the material covered by Joe in this video, because I included a lot of the same content in my lectures. Good work on this subject Joe.
Yes keeping calling starwars out on it's bullshit! Love it dude
I love these videos, and this was very informative (and hilarious!), but I'm pretty disappointed that there was no mention at all of contemporary psychedelic therapies or of ancient entheogenic customs. The DMT in ayahuasca and the psilocybin in magic mushrooms, for instance, are still used in indigenous communities as medicines for ailments of the body as well as the "soul" or "self", after hundreds or thousands of years of tradition.
The link between consciousness and healing is still such a mystery to science that we should be using (and talking about) all the available resources we have to see if there is something missing in the way we approach the psyche and its limits.The many organisations and universities around the globe studying and implementing psychedelic research and therapy are well beyond second-guessing about the benefits of the responsible expansion of consciousness and the subsequent rewiring of the brain due to its neuroplasticity.
Advertising drugs to patiens is not really a thing in Europe.
Isn't the US one of the ONLY countries that hasn't banned it? During grad school over there the topic came up, and the US seemed like one of the few or only.
That seems like the way to go, American medicine is pretty backwards in some aspects ugh
@@SamFischer117 *America is pretty backwards in some aspects
Fixed that for you.
It WAS banned in the US until fairly recently. So it's even worse than you think, it's the only nation to unban drug commercials!
Yea its false advertising. You cant even buy them. They just tease u with them. Then When u ask for them they say no.
3:04 Good.....GOOD! You anger makes you powerful, let the hate flow through you!
Lol I love how the Star Wars gripes come out of nowhere and carry through.
I was just watching your video on the population explosion and it got me thinking about soil science, have you ever considered doing a video on soil organisms and their ability to sequester carbon, also no till farming?
This whole video was made to shit on the starwars movie 😂😂😂 love it.
5:07 No, they're not in space. That was kind of the whole point. They were stuck in atmosphere unable to navigate out of whatever hellscape awaited them in actual space.
Still sort of ties back to the treadmill at high altitude, but there must be a Force for that.
Let me guess...You're having an issue with the writing of "The Rise of Skywalker"?
the lack of, more than the adjective
Not just the writing, the execution, the special effects, etc. just a horrible made, horribly written price of garbage. When you compare it to the original Star Wars movies of course. That’s the whole issue. There are 10 movies before it that are 1000x better.
@@JohnFKennedy420 I thought you were dead.
@@Stangil1 his death was...greatly exaggerated...
They weren't riding in space Joe they were in the atmosphere of a planet duh
When I was a kid I learned about placebos by watching MASH.
There was an episode where the morphine supply had gone bad or something so they had to give the patients sugar pills.
I said the exact same thing when I saw that scene with the quicksand and the cave! Lol
A combination of fascinating topics,
facts explained in plain language,
absence of any conspiracy theory nonsense
interspersed with dry, raw humour,
makes for fascinating and stimulating listening
GREAT job Joe Scott
Woh bro, “spoiler alert!” Haha.
P Chevalier good thing it’s a shit movie 😂 dont even bother watching it lol
Really hate that, sure if the movie is less than a week old, but other wise too bad.
“Ask your doctor if (fill in ALL drugs advertised on TV) is for you”. Ya! Do this! It’s fun. Doctors love it too 😀.
I'm not a doctor, but this still pisses me off. I trust my doctor to know more about medicine than I do, since it's his fucking job, so I don't go into his office and "ask him" about some drug I saw on TV.
I feel your pain about that movie. I wish I would’ve never saw it and kept my wonderful memories of the original Star Wars. Lol
I like the shots being fired at starwars here, It truly had a bad unrealistic plot that all pieces fit together too perfectly
I broke my neck, have a C5-6 spinal cord injury, on a respirator, and completely paralyzed from my neck down. I was able to get off the respirator and got back the ability to move my shoulders and biceps. That was relatively common for most quad's. But 3 months later I started recovering functions in my legs. When I got out of the hospital 6 months later, I was able to walk on my own. I ended up with the only limb that I had complete function in, is my left leg. The return I had, had never been seen in that spinal cord rehab center. I was the 1:1,000,000 case.
What I've never told anybody, was that I've always believed that the brain and body have an ability to repair itself when it's asked to do so. I had been shown a picture of the damage to the spinal cord. So every night when they put me to bed, I pictured that damage of the cord in my mind, and then pictured my body repairing that damage. There's a lot more to it than just that, but the return I had that late into the injury just doesn't happen. I was having return faster than the O.T.'s & P.T.'s could keep up with.
Things aren't perfect. I wear a brace on my right leg and only have active function in 2 fingers. They're also on the left side, but the important thing about that is I can go through a drive-thru. A spinal cord is about the thickness of you little finger, and has the consistency of a banana. When you look at the MRI of my cord, you can see a little tiny thread that runs past the defamatory of the bones that were fractured. That tiny thread is all that exists of my cord at that spot. 20 years post injury I'm having problems at that spot in the spine. Most neurosurgeons don't want to touch my case. I'll have to have it done at a teaching hospital.
Yes, the human mind is far more powerful than we think. It's just proving it.
Joe, I live for the intro to your vids. That drum rhythm and your spin, genius.
Actually as I was around 11y old I didnt wanted to go to school the next day at all. But there was no reason to not go because I felt absolutely fine. So I went in front of the oven and sat down as near as possible that the heat isnt that uncomftable. Than I wiggled a bit to the left and right and concentrated the whole time (for I think half an hour to max. an hour) on the feeling when Im ill. At the next day I had fever and felt very dizzy. It was very weird and it might have only been an coincidence but yeah. The placebo effect in general is such an interesting theme.
Lucozade used to be really expensive, only sold in chemists and the bottle was wrapped up in orange cellophane. Us kids were only given Lucozade when we were REALLY poorly, and it did make us feel better!
This is such a fascinating topic.
I can see it with pain, anxiety, depression, subjective experiences, etc, but have there been any studies done with placebo antibiotics or the like?
At first I thought your transition music sounded way too much like a truck commercial but now I rock out to it
Hey Joe, thanks for the videos you make. I thoroughly enjoy them and you are appreciated.
"Why do we stop re-growing our teeth?" - a pertinent question. What's up with that? Why does it stop happening all of a sudden? From an evolutionary standpoint it just doesn't make any sense ... we _need_ our teeth right up until the moment of death so it doesn't make sense that this is some sort of evolutionary trait. Is it possible that we stopped re-growing our teeth due to some sort of placebo effect?
incorrect.. You need your teeth up until you reproduce.... and then to a smaller degree : sufficiently raise and protect your young.. After that your existence, and evolutionary influence is questionable :)
@@justinmallaiz4549 By that logic you might as well say as soon as we reproduce _we_ aren't needed any more, yet our hands don't rot and fall off, nor our feet. We continue to survive after because it's in our genes to do so, regardless of whether or not nor how many times we reproduce, and in order to survive we _must_ eat. I still don't get it. It still bothers me. I can't see any reason why we would stop growing our teeth. An adult body has everything it needs to produce a new tooth and we all _know_ it has the ability because we've _all_ re-grown teeth so ... I dunno, what is it that turns that mechanism off? It's not like producing a new tooth will kill you.
5:05 You brought up many good points in this video but this one is the only one I take issue with. They're not in space, the whole battle takes place on a planet -- hence the crashing ships hitting the ground. There's generally not ground in space. We could get into why humans seem to be able to breathe on all planets and how that's possible, but that's a whole franchise problem.
@5:00 correction! The Star Destroyers were in atmosphere. A mile or so above ground.
I was once in inpatient and everyone around me was catching a really bad chest cold. Everyone was talking about how afraid they were that they were going to get sick. They all got sick. I spent the whole time saying I'm not going to get sick because I believe I'm not going to get sick. I was the only one in there that did not get sick. I know this doesn't really prove anything, but it sure made me think. And no I did not take any preventative measures.
I worked for a company that packaged the same product two different ways. The product in, "premium", packaging sold better even though it had a bigger price tag. On the other end of the spectrum, I underwent ketamine treatment for depression. My research gave me hope that it would be what I needed to break out of a suicidal mindset. It had a small effect after the first treatment, but no effect from subsequent treatments; even though they increased the dosage. It seems depression is too tenacious to be affected by the placebo effect.
Intro=unending consciousness. Thats a video Joe.
Loved all the starwars references. Hoping there is no copyright issues because videos like this are great!
I remember seeing a M.A.S.H episode about this many years ago
It’s interesting what you said about pharmaceutical adverts potentially changing the effectiveness of drugs. Here in Australia we have a ban on consumer marketing for prescription pharmaceuticals. I’d be interested to see a comparative study between countries with strict advertising laws around pharmaceuticals and those without
Hey Joe, the force healing was also in the mandolorian, I'm not sure which was released first but I saw it on the mandalorian first..
Was it REALLY necessary to remind us that Star Wars has been destroyed? C'mon, maaaannnnn.
@Lucius Martius I liked the GoT Ending AND the Star Wars ending. Yes it was different, but i liked it.
Oh whatever, some people will never be satisfied no matter what because it’s just “not the same!” As the original trilogy. I very much enjoyed the new movies and you know what else? I grew up on the prequels and they’re still by far my favorite.
I remember having something like the nocebo effect. was about to go into surgery with spinal anesthesia. was scared about the needles, got something to calm me down before. I was so stressed about the big needle and thinking the meds were never going to calm down enough and went into an absolute panic spiral which was probably way worse than it would have been if i hadn't been given anything at all lol
I had an experience with the nocebo effect. I was on a drug called metoclopramide for almost 2 years with no side effects. In March 2021, I saw a post on reddit by someone else on the drug talking about how they'd had a side effect from it they hadn't expected- they started spontaneously lactating despite never having been pregnant. I was thinking "wow, I'm glad I saw this, so I know what's happening if this happens to me." Three months later, on my birthday, I woke up to discover that, lo and behold, I was lactating. I was not and had never been pregnant at the time. I'm fairly certain that my new knowledge of the potential side effect played a part in me experiencing it, since I'd gone so long with none and then it suddenly happened when I learned about it.
So very true. I am a Paraplegic who was paralyzed at T11-T12. I have constant chronic pain for the past 30 years. The pain is from below my injury. My spinal cord sends pain signal constantly to my brain. Even though I can't feel that area and the area is not in distress or pain. But that does not stop me from experiencing pain all day long. They still do not know exactly why the spinal cord does this. Still waiting to be fixed so I can be without pain!!!! I
Fun Fact: Endorphins = Endogenous + Morphines
Colin Is that true? Or you trolling.
Srt-10 Mopar - this is true. The development of Morphine predated the discovery of endorphins by 172 years (assuming the dates on Wikipedia are correct). Thus, the naming occurred in reverse order to what you might classically expect.
@@colinwatt00 I never heard that before, but I just looked it up and, yup!
I believe the only 2 countries in the world that allow drug commercials are Canada and U.S.A. It is kinda wild. Everywhere else it's now illegal.
So......you obviously LOVED Rise of Skywalker.
What's not to love with it lol
In the 70s and 80s universities in Arizona and New Mexico were reaching to the medicine people of the Navajo, Zuni and Hopi to teach their healing ceremonies in their medical programs because they seemed to work very well especially with the tribal peoples, no surprise there. A teaching hospital in New England started a similar program, reaching out to Hindi, Buddhist and other ethnic faith traditions to work with patients of those traditions. It's called the holistic approch.
BTW, from your channel, several months ago, I was introduced to Curiosity Stream, to which I am now happily addicted. Thanks for that, too.
5:41 It's spelled serotonin, I believe, not "seratonin" 😏
sarahtonin?
What? Spelling corrections from the one who spells Feinstein with a Y? I kid, I kid. But Im gonna go with Ceratoenen.
@Steve Ramsey That's because I'm not a Feinstein lol. It's Feynman + Einstein 😉
Who is Sarah Tonin?
I believe that you are very smart with 300 iq, yes?
The brain is also shockingly good at blocking out memories of pain and trauma. To be shown in dreams later... I’m still remembering things from my almost-dying over two years ago
I don't have a problem with placebo therapy, as long as it works for a person and no one is getting rich off selling non-science backed _cures_ for deadly diseases or people arent giving advice that may end up harming a person. Ex: don't give your child Tamiflu, give him thyme & elderberries instead...
i suffer from awful anxiety, i've not really left my house in 8 months, like at all, i switched medications, and i think the placebo effect made me not realise the drugs weren't making me better, infact things are much much worse now. but at the start, it was working almost too well. now i feel like an idiot, and the added benefit of having to change medication again, which anyone who's done it with certain high-dose anti-depressants can tell you, isn't much fun
Placebo effect: when I was living with a bunch of buddies (Navy off-base housing) one suffered from his shoulder dislocating very easy. If you've ever dislocated a shoulder, you know it's friggin painful. One night we woke to him screaming in pain.
Apparently he had dislocated it in his sleep. We had fo call the ambulance to get him. Me and another dude went with him. He was screaming so bad. The ambulance dude told him that he wasn't supposed to do it, but if he was really in that much pain, he can give him morphine. My bud screamed at him to do it. So he injected him.
Immediately, my bud calms down, n passes out. When we got to the hospital, they were taking him in and he was super loopy. It was hilarious. We thanked the guy for injecting him. My bud mentioned that he thought they weren't allowed to carry morphine in the ambulance. The guy said it was no big deal, cuz he only injected him with saline, nothing more. We were dumbfounded. He said it happens every time he has to fake morphine. They calm right down. But yeah, they can act loopy too. Craziness.
So glad I wasn't the only one wondering out of what orifice that whole force healing thing in the Skywalker movie came from..
12:58 Yeah, but you are also relying on men to self report on their "Willy" working or not, so...
7:42 ohhh so that is why september is "yellow", interesting. i'm learning so much, ty
Those stock pictures (11:00-12:00)used to illustrate the placebo overdose got me going for a while...I thought that was really the poor guy dying from his inert pills, I felt compassion, empathy, my heart was racing, my eyes tearing up...but then I realized my confusion. So I didn't give a sh-t anymore
I have chronic pain I listen to binaural beats for pain relief. And it really helps. 50% chance the audio is changing the way my brain processes pain signals 50% chance it is all placebo effect. Either way, it keeps me sane and helps me manage my condition without becoming dependent on opioids.
I love how this is an educational video but also a Star Wars Rant lol.
For me to come back and have my consciousness put into a vessel as you said, I Think for me it would have to be a miniature vessel attached to a robot that has the ability to replace your original body because then your mind can still interact with your surroundings and have free will to do what you want, where if your just sitting in a bowl that would be like being locked in a little cell, of course if you had the ability to make a virtual existence and surrounding on the internet you could virtual go anywhere in a virtual reality, but I think I would rather have the ability to go physically and also have a body to react in the physical world even if it was robotic,!!
Seeing Joe's channel grow to what it has become at 730K+ subscribers gives me all the feels.
I, for one, love your film critique! I enjoyed Rise of Skywalker but it was a psychedelic dream sequence of a movie where everything felt like star wars but nothing made sense.
Thanks for all your informational content. I wake up every morning and watch your videos while drinking my coffee. I feel you’ve made me smarter by watching! Great stuff! Can’t wait to see what’s next!!
I love how you worked in the Star Wars bashing.
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4:06 - It feels like I've seen that scene before...
Did "Beast Master" ever fall through quicksand and into a cave? 🤔😅
I agree with your criticism of the movie, but the riding scene took place within the planet's atmosphere. It was a big plot point that for whatever reason the ships could not leave the atmosphere and go into orbit without signal from the tower thingy. Of course that plot point is rife with issues of its own.
Actually the sith version of force healing was used by audio is to save Anakin in revenge of the Sith
"If you want eternity on a budget....." 👌🏻🤣 Bit disappointed there wasn't a Futurama reference at that part. ☹️
Joe Scott with another great video, keep'em comin man your videos are great.
Old Bene Gesserit hormone control >.> Blood flow control, breathing control, every cell being an extension of the brain like a squid, you don't think about your nervous system to move your arm, you simply move your arm, you connect somewhere and command an outcome.
PS : Also, auto-suggestion.
Joe is awesome. All his videos are interesting. Even the one about things I don't find all that interesting. Kudos.
And I love that he is ripping on Rise of Skywalker. Eff that garbage.
I was all like "Have I forgotten a lot of stuff from the first two movies or is he referencing stuff from the latest one I haven't seen yet? No, he can't be doing that, all those spoilers. That would be inconsiderate of of him and he doesn't seem like an inconsiderate person" And then it turns it was from the latest one... Otherwise a great video and I still love you :)
People with something previously known as multiple personality disorder (MPD), now called dissociative identity disorder (DID), have shown some interesting physiological differences between personalities. Occasionally one will have a disease such as diabetes, and another won't. Or different eye color from one to the other. This was one of the first things that showed me the power of the mind.
I remember an episode of mash when they ran out of pain medicine and they resorted to sugar pills and for most of the patients it worked.
I think the shields in starwars hold in a pressurized atmosphere. Might explain why noone gets sucked out of the ships when they get holes blasted in them.
It made the whole thing exciting knowing Joe might tear Star Wars a new one at any moment.
Great subject matter / content as always. I loved the Star Wars comments as well. Hey you’re just raising the level of awareness. With all of your observations...I was like-dang he’s right that was totally ridiculous! But hey Star Wars is “science fantasy’ if you want ‘science fiction’ watch the Expanse! 😄 or even Firefly / Serenity!
Basically.. Your brain controls your life way more than you could possibly imagine.