When I had insomnia, my parents have me pills with just plain old sugar in them, and I would always talk about how well they worked. Placebos are magic!
it just there for your body to do their job while having your mind to relax.. the fact is not eveyrday you going to had good night sleep or too worry than you need something to help.. same with anyother thing...
A lady not having sleep at all when her husband go to his 2nd wife home, she needs sleeping pills, i gave her whenever necessary, when she addicts i put her on daily deriphyllin which was for my Father's use , she was comfortable sleep . with it . Deep Assurance is also placebo but it works, which works is not placebo ,it's mode of action we don't know properly .
Three things are needed for the placebo effect to work: 1. belief (or faith as seen in organized religions) 2. feeling (or emotion, the stronger the better) 3. expectation
+Harley smith Actually there are multiple studies showing that placebo medication works even if the patient is told that he or she recieves placebo medication and not the real one. I was a bit sad they didn't talk about it because THAT is the interesting thing about placebos.
osmoduh could it be from doubts? We know that in trials we can be lied to, so people might see it as a double bluff. Perhaps smarter people will be more affected after being told.
maybe it's because your brain understands that you are taking a pill to ease your ailments, so it doesn't release as many pain inducing chemicals. the problem still exists, but if you are feeling relief from being stressed out over your illness, your heart rate might go down after a while and your body might work more efficiently. pain is initially just an indication that something is wrong, so if your brain feels that you have already solved what is wrong, then it no longer needs to make you aware of the issue.
belief is just a useful tool but not reality itself you are just playing with it. but beware the more identification that you have the more you're identifying yourself with the thought process then whatever thoughts that you create within yourself in past or still thinking which is negative and positive (depends on how you interpret) will create a material reality for you and I know some people even did cause themselves events such as suicide , accidents and cause their death.
I am actually glad someone acknowledges the placebo effect. It’s actually something I‘d consider to be really powerful or having the potential to be very powerful. In an experiment two groups of people with oxygen tanks were climbing up a mountain, but one was actually just plain air. Both groups had pretty similar results as time is concerned, as well as a comparable subjective sensation about having more oxygen to breath easing the climb.
It’s absolutely incredible. A lot of people don’t even know what it is. The problem is drs can’t really do this. Like giving you a sugar pill vs and ssri is almost unethical.
I was at the gym and my friend next to me was repetedly pulling a bar down and he says "can you help me". As I'm about to help him pull the bar down, someone else comes and he says "let me do it". My friend keeps pulling the bar faster than before because he thought the other person was helping him, while all he did was hold the bar without helping at all.
Same when teaching someone to ride a bike. Telling 'em to keep on moving bc you're holding the end of the bike and guiding them when in fact you just stayed and watched them go far away from you😂
Sugar/Carbs provide a jolt of energy to the brain. Majority of placebo pills are sugar pills. Maybe these patients are just feeling energized and happy after eating the sugar. Influencing their overall mood and making them feel better for a little time...
Knowing about the Placebo Effect was a fascinating and eye-opening exploration. The description of the placebo effect's capacity to cause actual, visible changes in the human body despite the fact that it is not a "legitimate" therapy really caught my attention. It's astonishing how important the mind-body link is for healing. This further demonstrates the fact that we are occasionally fooled by our own minds without even being aware of it. I hope the Placebo Effect could be applied to the treatment of those with serious illnesses like cancer.
I realised this when I had anxiety, I couldn’t sit in class couldn’t go on public transport then one day I started saying to myself every day in the morning “I don’t hAve anxiety” “ there’s nothing wrong “ and after a few weeks something that bothered me so much and effected me really did start to go away :)
I love the Placebo effect with small children. I'm a scouts troup leader and when we go camping with the 5 to 7 year olds, some of them get homesickness. That is why we have a bottle of ticktac's that is our 'home sickness medication' it works most of the time. :D
The best thing we should get out of the placebo effect is that we, humans, posses great power of 'healing'. Having good amount/balance of adrenaline and endorphins /serotonin. By being happy, socialized, in love, having adventures...Simply, doing the things we want to do...following our own nature (that doesn't include harming others of course)
The Placebo effect reminds me of my grandma who has lived well over 90. She used to smoke 3 packs of cigs daily and ate whatever was unhealthy and yummy to her but she always had this will to live and she claimed that as long as she orders her body to be healthy she'll live long. That's exactly what happened. She never took any medicine/drugs in her entire life.
Why does no one else here understand this? Of course her belief in her health is a big part in what made her healthy. Placebo is not some magical thing that happens. It is your BELIEF in what will be reality that makes it a reality. It's not freaking luck.
I used to say that when I was a smoker: it's the guilt that kills you, & if you enjoy smoking that's doing you good = not very scientific (or true) though most probably/actually?!
I once didn't want to give an exam so I kept pleading my brain to make me I'll and the very next morning I was sick af, and recovered soon after the exam...so yea.... Our brain is capable of doing things beyond our imagination.. will power and dedication is a huge part of it
I'm watching this video as part of my General Biology course in college. I love watching this animated video that explains the history of what we know and use today. They're more informative than the live motion demonstrations.
+celeste AR it is the opposite of placebo effect.... If you play a audio file and say "this will cause headache", even though it is a harmless file the placebo effect takes place but negatively and the subject actually experiences headache.... CGP Grey has a great video on it... Look it up....
when my uncle was little he had asma and the doctor prescribed him some pills one day he ran out of pills then my mom gave him a bean and she said it was a pill. Wouldn't you know it plecebo effect got him
+marleni gutierrez Asthma medication has short and long term effects. The placebo most likely only replaced short term effects, and the strength of those effects can fade over time.
When i was young i sold fake weed to a guy who tought it was weed. He got sooo hight even his eyes got red and started hanging like they do when you smoke real weed. That was the first time I've heard about Placebo and it amazed me!
It's nocebo and that isn't an accurate explanation. Nocebo effects can modulate the outcome of a given therapy in a negative way, as do placebo effects in a positive way. Put simply, it is the phenomenon in which inert substances or mere suggestions of substances actually bring about negative effects in a patient or research participant. Like in a drug trial, the the side receiving the placebo can feel actual physical negative side affects from a drug they aren't actually taking.
I've known this effect from when I was like 10. I've always had my own theory of this. If you act and tell yourself you're having fun whilst smiling over and over you just 'trick' yourself onto believing your having a fun time. But your atmosphere has got to suit what you're trying to achieve though. (I'm 12)
3:03 There’s another effect you aren’t mentioning. The mere belief that the placebo will fix the ailment makes them feel less suffering. The reassurance that they are being helped makes them worry less about their conditions. Ultimately, even if placebo can’t cause lasting physiological change, we know they do work psychologically, so i believe the best application for placebo would be mild mental health concerns like anxiety and depression, as well as to aid comfort in recovery for conditions that we know will improve on their own.
+Areté You did not get my point, once you know about placebo there is a chance that you might interogate everything consciously. so the the things which the unconsciously may not have the same effect.
People talk about the placebo effect like it means you can will yourself into healing. That's not what the placebo effect is really about. It's more about how much of the improvement a person in the placebo group feels that cannot be explained in comparison to the improvement the drug group feels (which should in theory be explained by the drug)- which brings the efficacy of the drug into the question, and if there are other factors influencing the improvement of the patient (lifestyle, diet, etc), not how "well" the placebo is working. That is why you hear about drug trials being barely more effective than a placebo, because the drug doesn't work, not because the placebo is working.
That happened once to me, I had bronchitis for about 6 months (kms) and the doctors kept giving me medicine, an inhaler, etc. to make it better and it did nothing until one doctor was actually kind enough to give me the real drug. #triggered
Jazmine HawkStone You can really sue the doctor for that. Giving placebos instead of real medicine and printing money in your garage is the same thing - both are illegal and fooling others.
I think placebo effect is basically our subconscious mind in action. If our subconscious mind is convinced about something it will manifest it into reality.I like to think it as this way - If your subconscious mind accepts something we do things which are not entirely of conscious nature and as a result do the things we thought of. If you are interested in this topic please check out the book "The power of your subconscious mind "
+Nikhita Prabhudesai Hernando Bahamon is the director Miguel Otalora is the animator Ricardo Avila motion graphics Manuel Borda music and me Andres Landazabal, art direction Glad you like it :)
My hand was cramping since today morning..... It was so irritating and painful...... Then i took a homoeopathic drug at evening since it wasn't going away......this cramp went away after some 30 mins or so..... Such a relief now....but i wonder whether this is placebo... Cuz I've heard people telling that homoeopathy is placebo
Things like these are better if kept from people because i myself have experienced it stop working once we get to know the effect. All the magical and miraculous stuff just stops happening once we know how something works🙃
This doesn't only work with painkiller but also with other things. I remember when I was playing fifa (a football game) and I always play on difficulty normal because hard was too hard. One day, the difficulty was on hard but I though it was on normal so I was playing like I always do and I was winning. Just because I thought the difficulty was on normal. After a while, I realized that the difficulty was on hard because I fel after a while that the game was harder than usual.
There was this girl in my school bus who would vomit every single day due to Motion sickness... One day I told my father about it who also happened be a teacher at my school 😅 And he gave her a sugar pill and told her that he got it from some super special store or something since we were just kids she totally believed him and took a sugar pill... And to my utter disbelief IT WORKED!!! It took a while at first she would get a little sick from time to time and then it totally stopped. At the time I thought my father was a magician or something 😂 well now I know...
The answer is very simple on why placebo effect works. Your mind controls your reality. Whatever you believe is literally true for you. Where you are in life is exactly where you believe you will be. If you want to be further in life, then you need to strengthen your beliefs. If you believe this, you will be limitless, if you don’t, then none of what I said will be real for you. The choice is yours.
@@Owen_loves_Butters the thing about placebo is you don't know that its not a real drug. So your brain tricks you to believe it will work but when in reality it isn't. But after taking placebo if you realise its not a real drug. You might get dissapointed and eventually negativity takes all over your body which would be not affective at all.
it's like deceiving and convincing your mind (Like how you would convince your mind to had slept for 2 hours to decrease your sleepy state, or like how music works, It convinces your vast perspective on a world that you "lived" in and might even change your mind over certain things)
If the fake concoction was slightly cooler than the air temperature &/or cooled the finger down, that may have had a physical effect on the amount of pain they experienced in the covered finger.
@@WWZenaDo I've just been given (put on) yet another 'trial' (long history of this, no consent, & have been made very ill with some and some were clearly placebos which I mostly reported but got fed up doing so) of an unknown med: the tablets are scary-blue = would I be less scared if they were a soft yellow?! The silly leaflet is nonsense - maybe, how do we know?! If placebo = to help us think they'll have an effect, if real then to confuse us on actual (known?)to the 'majority' who bother to feed-back, effects Are the COLOURS dangerous = might cause cancers, hyperactivity - and lots of effects we still don't know? It's funny: in France when I was young docs prescribed tablets of dyes which apparently cured urinary tract infections: one was blue, the second bright orange = dyes are KNOWN to have various effects then, at least in France, never ever been prescribed those in the UK! SO SCARED to try these (because of my history) but have crushed one (forgot to buy pill crusher) = told doc need melt-in-mouth (my throat injury = they get stuck as do some foods), they taste very bitter and made the inside of my mouth feel slightly numb briefly, I think (!); but other placebos tasted really bitter but did nothing. I already told the doc we say the tablets have done something which is silly when there are so many variables and internal/external factors we don't even KNOW them all, to consider. I HATE being experimented on (or supposedly 'consent' to experiment on myself) but when we're refused (for various known 'dangers' apparently or 'unobtainable') our favourite tried & tested drugs to try to control unbearable symptoms (insomnia & nightmares & over-active brain since brain injury for me) we apparently MUST expose ourselves to new & UNKNOWN dangers which might be very serious - HOW can we consent to this? We can't weigh up the risks to benefits at all = I feel like Alice in Wonderland (was it that one?) with the bottle 'Drink me' & cake 'Eat me' and wait to see what I THINK happens (if anything - real or imagined) and why (may well be unknown cause-effect/s), it's horrible. Although the placebo effect interests me a lot I don't want to carry on with various chemical (& other) experiments on my poor battered/injured brain & body - though of course we're all delighted when others in the past have done so to produce their myriad our fave tried-&-tested ones (& for all products & services not just tablets) and IF they've given feed-back (as all patients & docs should & this data must be collected easily & used properly) = double standards: BUT my recent medical+ history is very unusual, horrible & complicated - BUT maybe I'll help others who suffer the same or similar histories, abuses, injuries and symptoms, who knows? Maybe double-blind but somebody may know one day? I live alone, if I die or become very peculiar or strange please alert somebody... [I'm getting VERY scrambled: Too late in the day & I'm very tired = due to all the work I've done today, the time of day now, external/other factors or the tablet or ALL of these & more?]
@@WWZenaDo Later P.S. Took part of crushed tab at 16.11 UK time. I forgot to say that the doc (if that is what he was) said this drug/tablet 'is similar, in the same family as...' the antihistamine I asked for, but I didn't think until after that I should've said ALL of us in MY family are related (& share some genes) but we're ALL VERY VERY DIFFERENT in so many ways (nurture/nature/histories+ stuff too) - but also, as humans, have so much in common. Now it's 18.27 UK time & felt dryish mouth a bit (similar to at start from, I thought, the bitter taste) & as though my pupils had widened slightly (feels like, I can't see coz of light+) & a bit sort of 'stoned' & talking to the fridge-freezer, kitchen & kettle about this (yes) I even LAUGHED a bit which I haven't done for WAY too long = odd. He said to take them for 2 weeks but usually they say 'not every night' = addiction risk, even if 'only' psychological? Feel a little bit drunk or stoned, feels a bit like I've had a slight dose of recreational drug/s I took when young = odd = all in my mind & caused by too much typing, fatigue & the weird electrical+ stuff here (& maybe subliminal stuff on net/screen+?!) = or not?! Oh and JUST realised: I don't seem to be hurting so much = wow. Wouldn't it be great if this was homeopathy & NO actual molecule & NOTHING external & ALL in my mind/other... But HOW will we know which/what & if?
i used laugh to cure my sickness. it actually makes me feel better. its probably not placebo but it reveals that our brain can do much more without external substrances.
Q: I wonder why when we say we want to buy new car for example, the old car will started to broke down/ have problem with it as it's sulk with the owner. It is placebo effect?
So... If the placebo effect exists... What if... You had a VR device and saw your dinner and thought it was some luxurious meal but its actually vegetables!?
haha! yeah that could actually be pretty convincing! and if you had absolutely no idea that you were wearing a VR you should be able to trick yourself into tasting it too!
It took nature through evolution about 4.3 billion years to come up with something as complex and awesome as the human brain. Homeopathy and the power of prayer are the best examples of the placebo effect. The first is 226 years old; the second is at least 5000 years old. 💕☮🌎🌌
This is what we regard as attainment of consciousness in India . Meditative procedures and asanas help build internal power and thoughts become capable of producing realities! Hatsoff !
What happens when you give two groups placebos, but you only tell one group that you gave them a placebo? Does the placebo still work for both groups or only for the group that wasn't told?
+NinjaEule The placebo doesn't always work even if you don't tell them it's a placebo. And it usually doesn't work if you tell them it is a placebo. The placebo effect works mostly when a person really believe something will work, so their mind tricks their bodies into doing the work the medicine had to do in the first place. So if you are given a placebo disguise like an awesome new pill and you are already thinking things like "pills don't work on me" you are less likely to experience the placebo effect. Placebo effect can also be found inside religious groups, if a person thinks that if they pray everyday god will cure them their mind might trick the body in the same way a placebo would. But if you don't believe god might save you from your cold then you mind won't trick your body into it. You can experiment placebo effect sometimes by stating thing. If you say "i have a very good memory" when someone ask you to remember something you are more likely to remember. That's how daily statements work, but as any other placebo it doesn't always work even if you believe it will.
***** But doesn't this explain how placebos work? Also couldn't you use this to avoid the problem placebos have? You just give people real drugs and tell them they received a placebo, so they don't get a placebo-effect.
One reason for the apparent placebo effect that doesn't seem to be known is that, at least with chronic diseases, the symptoms seem to get better and worse by themselves. Chronic back pain, for instance, is not the same intensity all the time and may go into temporary remission with no change of medication or therapy. So patients may say their symptoms have improved because of the variable nature of chronic medical conditions, not because of suggestions. Furthermore, only about a third of the population is subject to the placebo effect. This might be explained by simple miscommunication. As an example, I had a chronic medical condition. When I went to the doctor the symptoms were terrible. But a month later, with no change in therapy, I felt better than terrible, so I told her I felt a lot better. She interpreted that as the condition was in remission, but it was really just better than unbearable. So there are many other possible explanations for the placebo effect other than suggestion.
I can actually use the Placebo Effect on myself. I recently had to drink barium (special term for cow vomit) for an upper GI. In order to avoid the unspeakable, I convinced myself it tasted exactly like fruit smoothies.
The Placebo Effect makes sense. To quote Kung Fu Panda: "To make something special, you just have to BELIEVE that it's special."
+Davy “The ripper” Rei
YOU'RE LYING!!!!
WHERE IS IT????
WHERE IS THE DRAGONSCROLL , PANDA??????
Karun Divij Balachandar this is a good quote
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Ya when that duck was telling panda about the secret sauce
Karun Divij Balachandar did it mention how it works?
Can i imagine that my homework is done and than have it miraculously complete, without me having actually do any work.
Aah that's gonna be a tough one 😂
Only physiological functions my friend, no external and social effects. But if you believe, you can do your homework any time now.
no but mybe your homework will THINK its made
try it on your finals, i dare you ;)
i wish
So when my mom used to kiss my arm when I bumped it and it suddenly felt better was just the Placebo Effect in action?
yup
no, you're just weird.
+Galactipod awww seems like SOMEONE wasn't loved enough
+hejmeli are you a fucking 12 year old lol
Hanrase A says the 12 year old
When I had insomnia, my parents have me pills with just plain old sugar in them, and I would always talk about how well they worked. Placebos are magic!
it just there for your body to do their job while having your mind to relax.. the fact is not eveyrday you going to had good night sleep or too worry than you need something to help.. same with anyother thing...
A lady not having sleep at all when her husband go to his 2nd wife home, she needs sleeping pills, i gave her whenever necessary, when she addicts i put her on daily deriphyllin which was for my Father's use , she was comfortable sleep . with it . Deep Assurance is also placebo but it works, which works is not placebo ,it's mode of action we don't know properly .
@@drctkamblediamond8958 huh??
@Sn0w Controller ah i see, thank you
It's called tricking ur brain pretty much
Yeah
Pro Shooter so what ... it dosnt matter . We are meant to be one.❤ we are all connected. Man made religion ruined everything.
@@silentmaniac3626 agreed!
Law of attraction
Lol true
Three things are needed for the placebo effect to work:
1. belief (or faith as seen in organized religions)
2. feeling (or emotion, the stronger the better)
3. expectation
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So you have to be optimistic pretty much lol
@@mona-checkoutmychannel7656 yeah, simply ✨Optimistic✨
Add fearless too ! Coz without fearlessness you can believe it
it basically helps in raising your vibration
Plot twist: When we know how Placebos work, they won't anymore.
+Harley smith Actually there are multiple studies showing that placebo medication works even if the patient is told that he or she recieves placebo medication and not the real one. I was a bit sad they didn't talk about it because THAT is the interesting thing about placebos.
+Harley smith LOL exactly what I was thinking.
osmoduh could it be from doubts? We know that in trials we can be lied to, so people might see it as a double bluff. Perhaps smarter people will be more affected after being told.
Detective Got a paragraph for me to read, rather than a whole study review?
+Harley smith No, it works even if we are aware of it.
maybe it's because your brain understands that you are taking a pill to ease your ailments, so it doesn't release as many pain inducing chemicals. the problem still exists, but if you are feeling relief from being stressed out over your illness, your heart rate might go down after a while and your body might work more efficiently. pain is initially just an indication that something is wrong, so if your brain feels that you have already solved what is wrong, then it no longer needs to make you aware of the issue.
omg, you just solved the age old question!
That's actually a really good theory
Wow....Well thought :D
very good point!
it is not that the brain produce pain inducers , it is the tissues , and the brain receive them and translate then into pain ( bradykinin and pge2 )..
me: *pretends to not know i am taking placebo to ease my sickness*
placebo: well now i am not doing it
Cid Weasley no it still works just now you are not blindly believing it now you know that you can heal yourself.
your thought process literally changing the effects because you are creating new causes.
and your subconcious mind doesn't even know the difference between a emotion created by situation and a emotion created by a thought process.
belief is just a useful tool but not reality itself you are just playing with it. but beware the more identification that you have the more you're identifying yourself with the thought process then whatever thoughts that you create within yourself in past or still thinking which is negative and positive (depends on how you interpret) will create a material reality for you and I know some people even did cause themselves events such as suicide , accidents and cause their death.
TL;DR even if you know its a Placebo, it still works
I am actually glad someone acknowledges the placebo effect. It’s actually something I‘d consider to be really powerful or having the potential to be very powerful. In an experiment two groups of people with oxygen tanks were climbing up a mountain, but one was actually just plain air. Both groups had pretty similar results as time is concerned, as well as a comparable subjective sensation about having more oxygen to breath easing the climb.
It’s absolutely incredible. A lot of people don’t even know what it is. The problem is drs can’t really do this. Like giving you a sugar pill vs and ssri is almost unethical.
As Dumbledore said, "Of course it's all happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
i am the biggest potterhead out there
because its Venus?
@@mani78lr how big are you? 8 feet? 9 feet?
@@AStrangePersonOnline The question is not 'how' but 'when'.
looking for this comment!!!!
I was at the gym and my friend next to me was repetedly pulling a bar down and he says "can you help me". As I'm about to help him pull the bar down, someone else comes and he says "let me do it". My friend keeps pulling the bar faster than before because he thought the other person was helping him, while all he did was hold the bar without helping at all.
Dramawind I do that too a lady at work that "can't move the equipment"
Its all giggles and laughs untill someone gets severly hurt.
Same when teaching someone to ride a bike. Telling 'em to keep on moving bc you're holding the end of the bike and guiding them when in fact you just stayed and watched them go far away from you😂
Greatomeister LMAO
Katrina and then they fall because they don’t know how to stop the bike
Plot twist what if it was sugar curing people this whole time
LOOOOOOOOOL. I was thinking about that as well.
Sugar/Carbs provide a jolt of energy to the brain. Majority of placebo pills are sugar pills. Maybe these patients are just feeling energized and happy after eating the sugar. Influencing their overall mood and making them feel better for a little time...
Zain A.
Rewards hormones
Then what about diabetes???
sad. I wouldn't have gotten diabetes then
Knowing about the Placebo Effect was a fascinating and eye-opening exploration. The description of the placebo effect's capacity to cause actual, visible changes in the human body despite the fact that it is not a "legitimate" therapy really caught my attention. It's astonishing how important the mind-body link is for healing. This further demonstrates the fact that we are occasionally fooled by our own minds without even being aware of it. I hope the Placebo Effect could be applied to the treatment of those with serious illnesses like cancer.
I realised this when I had anxiety, I couldn’t sit in class couldn’t go on public transport then one day I started saying to myself every day in the morning “I don’t hAve anxiety” “ there’s nothing wrong “ and after a few weeks something that bothered me so much and effected me really did start to go away :)
Placebo changes perception causing your brain to react different as your bran controls physiology or physiological responses
I love the Placebo effect with small children. I'm a scouts troup leader and when we go camping with the 5 to 7 year olds, some of them get homesickness. That is why we have a bottle of ticktac's that is our 'home sickness medication' it works most of the time. :D
The best thing we should get out of the placebo effect is that we, humans, posses great power of 'healing'. Having good amount/balance of adrenaline and endorphins /serotonin. By being happy, socialized, in love, having adventures...Simply, doing the things we want to do...following our own nature (that doesn't include harming others of course)
If only more people think like this... Imagine all the Superhumans and Wim Hof's we would have
My adventure and happiness lies in transitioning from mtf
The Placebo effect reminds me of my grandma who has lived well over 90. She used to smoke 3 packs of cigs daily and ate whatever was unhealthy and yummy to her but she always had this will to live and she claimed that as long as she orders her body to be healthy she'll live long. That's exactly what happened. She never took any medicine/drugs in her entire life.
Probably more luck than anything else.
Lord Inquisitor very true
Why does no one else here understand this? Of course her belief in her health is a big part in what made her healthy. Placebo is not some magical thing that happens. It is your BELIEF in what will be reality that makes it a reality. It's not freaking luck.
I used to say that when I was a smoker: it's the guilt that kills you, & if you enjoy smoking that's doing you good = not very scientific (or true) though most probably/actually?!
I think she was lucky
I once didn't want to give an exam so I kept pleading my brain to make me I'll and the very next morning I was sick af, and recovered soon after the exam...so yea....
Our brain is capable of doing things beyond our imagination.. will power and dedication is a huge part of it
I'm watching this video as part of my General Biology course in college. I love watching this animated video that explains the history of what we know and use today. They're more informative than the live motion demonstrations.
I would love a video on the nocebo effect....
+celeste AR it is the opposite of placebo effect.... If you play a audio file and say "this will cause headache", even though it is a harmless file the placebo effect takes place but negatively and the subject actually experiences headache....
CGP Grey has a great video on it... Look it up....
....
Let's play stone paper scissors.
But that is still placebo... “Nocebo” is just an unnecessary and false classification.
@@danie7kovacs it's effective
what if every medicine is placebo?
+Amina Sultanbayeva Illuminati confirmed
Dun dun duuuuuunnnna
damnnnnn
*plot twist*
O wow
when my uncle was little he had asma and the doctor prescribed him some pills one day he ran out of pills then my mom gave him a bean and she said it was a pill. Wouldn't you know it plecebo effect got him
+marleni gutierrez Asthma medication has short and long term effects. The placebo most likely only replaced short term effects, and the strength of those effects can fade over time.
so he swallowed a bean ?
+marleni gutierrez Why did she have a bean?
+Mr. Fish the frog beans are food
When i was young i sold fake weed to a guy who tought it was weed. He got sooo hight even his eyes got red and started hanging like they do when you smoke real weed. That was the first time I've heard about Placebo and it amazed me!
the placebo effect is so useful in achieving your goalss
Why is no one talking about how they illustrated "sham surgery"? That was hilarious..😂😂😂😂😂
this just made me question all my pills
awesome video! do you know there is a 'nacebo' effect? Nacebo means that the drugs won't function if the patient doesn't believe in it. 👌👍
Damn I didn't knew that.
Nocebo**
Nocebo**
It's nocebo and that isn't an accurate explanation. Nocebo effects can modulate the outcome of a given therapy in a negative way, as do placebo effects in a positive way. Put simply, it is the phenomenon in which inert substances or mere suggestions of substances actually bring about negative effects in a patient or research participant. Like in a drug trial, the the side receiving the placebo can feel actual physical negative side affects from a drug they aren't actually taking.
nocebo
This topic was already fully explained. The interresting thing in this vídeo is how they avoid the term suggestion.
I've known this effect from when I was like 10. I've always had my own theory of this. If you act and tell yourself you're having fun whilst smiling over and over you just 'trick' yourself onto believing your having a fun time. But your atmosphere has got to suit what you're trying to achieve though. (I'm 12)
It's not an affect, it's manifesting.
3:03 There’s another effect you aren’t mentioning. The mere belief that the placebo will fix the ailment makes them feel less suffering. The reassurance that they are being helped makes them worry less about their conditions. Ultimately, even if placebo can’t cause lasting physiological change, we know they do work psychologically, so i believe the best application for placebo would be mild mental health concerns like anxiety and depression, as well as to aid comfort in recovery for conditions that we know will improve on their own.
best animation/production value
agreed! Great job TedEd! :D
Nice animations. That doctor at 0:56 looked really funny.
Animation is awesome in this video.
i’ve always thought of this concept, at a young age! but i never really knew that people already knew this. this is so cool.
Your voice is my favourite out of all of them
Really like the animation of this one.
this classroom needs their own tv show
"The problem with knowing knowing about placebo effect is perhaps it will never work again for You"
-Psychology Student.
This video should be removed then
+Muhasin V That's not how it works lol
+Areté You did not get my point, once you know about placebo there is a chance that you might interogate everything consciously.
so the the things which the unconsciously may not have the same effect.
Muhasin V The effect may not be as strong but still works studies do confirm this.Same for nocebo.
That's what I meant. Wrote in a hilarious way :-)
Very informative! This is helpful to psychology students or anyone just interested in facts. ❣
true...
People talk about the placebo effect like it means you can will yourself into healing. That's not what the placebo effect is really about. It's more about how much of the improvement a person in the placebo group feels that cannot be explained in comparison to the improvement the drug group feels (which should in theory be explained by the drug)- which brings the efficacy of the drug into the question, and if there are other factors influencing the improvement of the patient (lifestyle, diet, etc), not how "well" the placebo is working. That is why you hear about drug trials being barely more effective than a placebo, because the drug doesn't work, not because the placebo is working.
I've never been this early! Nice video and nice animation too! Very interesting.
+Cas Williamson your amount of cool points just got raised by 1.000.000.000.000.000 points, congrats!!
engladtur thanks bro
Although the animation is always nice in these videos, this time I just loved it! :D
That happened once to me, I had bronchitis for about 6 months (kms) and the doctors kept giving me medicine, an inhaler, etc. to make it better and it did nothing until one doctor was actually kind enough to give me the real drug. #triggered
Lawsuit material bud. Not "haha I got triggered"
+Jazmine HawkStone you can still do that evem if it wasnt "serious"
Jazmine HawkStone You can really sue the doctor for that. Giving placebos instead of real medicine and printing money in your garage is the same thing - both are illegal and fooling others.
@Sale Em
Face Palm.
You really r dumb.
Ogi Kostov You are very mistaken. You just made a conclusion out of a judgement from one comment.
I'm in love with the narrator's voice..
It's sweet and calm.
The character design and overall animation in this is fantastic
I think placebo effect is basically our subconscious mind in action. If our subconscious mind is convinced about something it will manifest it into reality.I like to think it as this way - If your subconscious mind accepts something we do things which are not entirely of conscious nature and as a result do the things we thought of.
If you are interested in this topic please check out the book "The power of your subconscious mind "
That’s exactly it, also another form of hypnosis
Yeah law of assumption literally is this
*life hack*
when your lazy to go to school i always make myself sick by telling myself to have a fever and it works lmao
chaeun now that's alotta damage!
@@Heybuddy101 WHAT XD
And how is it beneficial for you not to educate yourself? And especially to be proud of it...
@@danie7kovacs educate? this education is pure BS
I first heard the word "placebo" in IT by Stephen King.
Eddie used one.
Thanks for sharing . Me and My student Andy are watching this right now
This art is pretty good! Globizco did a fine job.
So beautifully animated!! I love the design and the style! Can you please credit the animators in your description??
+Nikhita Prabhudesai
Hernando Bahamon is the director
Miguel Otalora is the animator
Ricardo Avila motion graphics
Manuel Borda music and me Andres Landazabal, art direction
Glad you like it :)
Andrés Landazabal that's great! these people definitely need to be given credit for the amazing work they do :)
:)
I recreationally take placebos
djschuby04 That’s an oxymoron bro 😂😂😂
It's about the power of the mind. If you believe you are getting healthier then you will physically feel healthier.
Related to motivation maybe?
@@jennyhughes4474 Idkn
when you apply this to psychological exercises it takes on a whole new meaning, though being aware of that isn't the best thing...
My hand was cramping since today morning..... It was so irritating and painful...... Then i took a homoeopathic drug at evening since it wasn't going away......this cramp went away after some 30 mins or so..... Such a relief now....but i wonder whether this is placebo... Cuz I've heard people telling that homoeopathy is placebo
People : “how does this medicine work ?”
Doctors : “Well here’s a little lesson in trickery”
Shout out to *Globizco* for the fantastic illustrations!
Plot twist: the placebo effect doesn't do anything, it's actually because the water and sugarr solution is the best cure of all time
Things like these are better if kept from people because i myself have experienced it stop working once we get to know the effect. All the magical and miraculous stuff just stops happening once we know how something works🙃
"it's easy to investigate the world around us and forget that one of its most fascinating subjects lies right behind our eyes." 👌💙
Where u can't see it lol
Gazebo
Gavin Films
Lmaoo
Gavin Films came here to find this XD
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This doesn't only work with painkiller but also with other things. I remember when I was playing fifa (a football game) and I always play on difficulty normal because hard was too hard. One day, the difficulty was on hard but I though it was on normal so I was playing like I always do and I was winning. Just because I thought the difficulty was on normal. After a while, I realized that the difficulty was on hard because I fel after a while that the game was harder than usual.
how do they finish every video with such profound one liners??? amazing as always!
i love how the characters are drawn in this.
i totally agree, paracetamol pills from any near farmacy is very different from the perscribed ones
Whenever someone has a phantom limb, often a placebo effect exercise involving a gal hand is used. Its crazy
The animation reminds me of Ren & Stimpy a little bit.
+WweDiva4Life Yeah, John K. was the first thing that popped into my head.
Just liked cuz seshomarou
There was this girl in my school bus who would vomit every single day due to Motion sickness... One day I told my father about it who also happened be a teacher at my school 😅
And he gave her a sugar pill and told her that he got it from some super special store or something since we were just kids she totally believed him and took a sugar pill...
And to my utter disbelief IT WORKED!!! It took a while at first she would get a little sick from time to time and then it totally stopped.
At the time I thought my father was a magician or something 😂 well now I know...
😬😂
The answer is very simple on why placebo effect works. Your mind controls your reality. Whatever you believe is literally true for you.
Where you are in life is exactly where you believe you will be. If you want to be further in life, then you need to strengthen your beliefs.
If you believe this, you will be limitless, if you don’t, then none of what I said will be real for you. The choice is yours.
The ark work in this lesson is amazing!
I love ark too
love the animation~
Hermione: So you didn't give Ron liquid luck , he only thought you did !
Harry : 👁👄👁
The best thing about the placebo effect: it still works even when you know it’s a placebo
lol it doesn't
@@kennethmccormik6054 It does. It’s been demonstrated.
@@Owen_loves_Butters the thing about placebo is you don't know that its not a real drug. So your brain tricks you to believe it will work but when in reality it isn't.
But after taking placebo if you realise its not a real drug. You might get dissapointed and eventually negativity takes all over your body which would be not affective at all.
@@kennethmccormik6054 Look it up
it's like deceiving and convincing your mind
(Like how you would convince your mind to had slept for 2 hours to decrease your sleepy state,
or like how music works, It convinces your vast perspective on a world that you "lived" in and might even change your mind over certain things)
Just a great explanation
If the fake concoction was slightly cooler than the air temperature &/or cooled the finger down, that may have had a physical effect on the amount of pain they experienced in the covered finger.
WHAT was in the 'fake' concoction? Without that knowledge I can't judge the test.
@@jennyhughes4474 - An excellent question....
@@WWZenaDo I've just been given (put on) yet another 'trial' (long history of this, no consent, & have been made very ill with some and some were clearly placebos which I mostly reported but got fed up doing so) of an unknown med: the tablets are scary-blue = would I be less scared if they were a soft yellow?! The silly leaflet is nonsense - maybe, how do we know?! If placebo = to help us think they'll have an effect, if real then to confuse us on actual (known?)to the 'majority' who bother to feed-back, effects
Are the COLOURS dangerous = might cause cancers, hyperactivity - and lots of effects we still don't know? It's funny: in France when I was young docs prescribed tablets of dyes which apparently cured urinary tract infections: one was blue, the second bright orange = dyes are KNOWN to have various effects then, at least in France, never ever been prescribed those in the UK!
SO SCARED to try these (because of my history) but have crushed one (forgot to buy pill crusher) = told doc need melt-in-mouth (my throat injury = they get stuck as do some foods), they taste very bitter and made the inside of my mouth feel slightly numb briefly, I think (!); but other placebos tasted really bitter but did nothing.
I already told the doc we say the tablets have done something which is silly when there are so many variables and internal/external factors we don't even KNOW them all, to consider.
I HATE being experimented on (or supposedly 'consent' to experiment on myself) but when we're refused (for various known 'dangers' apparently or 'unobtainable') our favourite tried & tested drugs to try to control unbearable symptoms (insomnia & nightmares & over-active brain since brain injury for me) we apparently MUST expose ourselves to new & UNKNOWN dangers which might be very serious - HOW can we consent to this? We can't weigh up the risks to benefits at all = I feel like Alice in Wonderland (was it that one?) with the bottle 'Drink me' & cake 'Eat me' and wait to see what I THINK happens (if anything - real or imagined) and why (may well be unknown cause-effect/s), it's horrible.
Although the placebo effect interests me a lot I don't want to carry on with various chemical (& other) experiments on my poor battered/injured brain & body - though of course we're all delighted when others in the past have done so to produce their myriad our fave tried-&-tested ones (& for all products & services not just tablets) and IF they've given feed-back (as all patients & docs should & this data must be collected easily & used properly) = double standards: BUT my recent medical+ history is very unusual, horrible & complicated - BUT maybe I'll help others who suffer the same or similar histories, abuses, injuries and symptoms, who knows? Maybe double-blind but somebody may know one day? I live alone, if I die or become very peculiar or strange please alert somebody...
[I'm getting VERY scrambled: Too late in the day & I'm very tired = due to all the work I've done today, the time of day now, external/other factors or the tablet or ALL of these & more?]
@@WWZenaDo Later P.S. Took part of crushed tab at 16.11 UK time. I forgot to say that the doc (if that is what he was) said this drug/tablet 'is similar, in the same family as...' the antihistamine I asked for, but I didn't think until after that I should've said ALL of us in MY family are related (& share some genes) but we're ALL VERY VERY DIFFERENT in so many ways (nurture/nature/histories+ stuff too) - but also, as humans, have so much in common. Now it's 18.27 UK time & felt dryish mouth a bit (similar to at start from, I thought, the bitter taste) & as though my pupils had widened slightly (feels like, I can't see coz of light+) & a bit sort of 'stoned' & talking to the fridge-freezer, kitchen & kettle about this (yes) I even LAUGHED a bit which I haven't done for WAY too long = odd. He said to take them for 2 weeks but usually they say 'not every night' = addiction risk, even if 'only' psychological? Feel a little bit drunk or stoned, feels a bit like I've had a slight dose of recreational drug/s I took when young = odd = all in my mind & caused by too much typing, fatigue & the weird electrical+ stuff here (& maybe subliminal stuff on net/screen+?!) = or not?! Oh and JUST realised: I don't seem to be hurting so much = wow. Wouldn't it be great if this was homeopathy & NO actual molecule & NOTHING external & ALL in my mind/other... But HOW will we know which/what & if?
MAYBE, what we've discovered is that sugar in pill-form is the ultimate medicine?
eyg24 it is.
I know people in Thailand cured Tumour with just repeating some words there is video in youtube I'll share if I find it
What about the nocebo effect? I didn't hear it mentioned in the video but it's pretty closely related.
Nicholas Braden It’s the same thing.
Placebo is not confined to positive changes.
Watch the video again then
i used laugh to cure my sickness. it actually makes me feel better. its probably not placebo but it reveals that our brain can do much more without external substrances.
loved the animation and short & sweet explanation.
Q: I wonder why when we say we want to buy new car for example, the old car will started to broke down/ have problem with it as it's sulk with the owner. It is placebo effect?
Manifestinnnng
So... If the placebo effect exists...
What if... You had a VR device and saw your dinner and thought it was some luxurious meal but its actually vegetables!?
haha! yeah that could actually be pretty convincing! and if you had absolutely no idea that you were wearing a VR you should be able to trick yourself into tasting it too!
Maybe that's how reality works and placebo effect is a glitch
@@Axel-hr5kk Do you have an idea of how long placebo effect medicine totally wears off?
can you make a video on phantom pain??
And so to unravel the process I began the project years back. And it's time to realize how powerful the brain is!!!
The music at the beginning of the video sounds very divine to me.
It took nature through evolution about 4.3 billion years to come up with something as complex and awesome as the human brain. Homeopathy and the power of prayer are the best examples of the placebo effect. The first is 226 years old; the second is at least 5000 years old. 💕☮🌎🌌
nope
This is what we regard as attainment of consciousness in India . Meditative procedures and asanas help build internal power and thoughts become capable of producing realities! Hatsoff !
That lady in the left 1:37 is form Mr. Bean.
I appreciate that the animators went out of their way to hammer home that yes, the experiment was definitely conducted in the 90s.
the brain is all-powerful. Great video!
What happens when you give two groups placebos, but you only tell one group that you gave them a placebo? Does the placebo still work for both groups or only for the group that wasn't told?
+NinjaEule The placebo doesn't always work even if you don't tell them it's a placebo. And it usually doesn't work if you tell them it is a placebo. The placebo effect works mostly when a person really believe something will work, so their mind tricks their bodies into doing the work the medicine had to do in the first place. So if you are given a placebo disguise like an awesome new pill and you are already thinking things like "pills don't work on me" you are less likely to experience the placebo effect. Placebo effect can also be found inside religious groups, if a person thinks that if they pray everyday god will cure them their mind might trick the body in the same way a placebo would. But if you don't believe god might save you from your cold then you mind won't trick your body into it. You can experiment placebo effect sometimes by stating thing. If you say "i have a very good memory" when someone ask you to remember something you are more likely to remember. That's how daily statements work, but as any other placebo it doesn't always work even if you believe it will.
***** But doesn't this explain how placebos work? Also couldn't you use this to avoid the problem placebos have? You just give people real drugs and tell them they received a placebo, so they don't get a placebo-effect.
Why every time I get advertisement of headspace??
Placebo or how to measurr Faith
I knew I recognized the word "placebo"! I learned about this at school last year
I was looking up on the meaning of placebo effect and this came up on my recommendations to watch-
One reason for the apparent placebo effect that doesn't seem to be known is that, at least with chronic diseases, the symptoms seem to get better and worse by themselves. Chronic back pain, for instance, is not the same intensity all the time and may go into temporary remission with no change of medication or therapy. So patients may say their symptoms have improved because of the variable nature of chronic medical conditions, not because of suggestions. Furthermore, only about a third of the population is subject to the placebo effect. This might be explained by simple miscommunication. As an example, I had a chronic medical condition. When I went to the doctor the symptoms were terrible. But a month later, with no change in therapy, I felt better than terrible, so I told her I felt a lot better. She interpreted that as the condition was in remission, but it was really just better than unbearable. So there are many other possible explanations for the placebo effect other than suggestion.
It is because we control our bodies and everything in it like inmune system and nervous system
I can actually use the Placebo Effect on myself. I recently had to drink barium (special term for cow vomit) for an upper GI. In order to avoid the unspeakable, I convinced myself it tasted exactly like fruit smoothies.
umm you actually can.
Loved the last line.
This video is incredible, nice job!