I only use brand name placebos. Generic doesn’t work for me.
Placeboz
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I find you have to use twice as much to have any effect.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
People wanna tell me there’s no such thing as magic in a world where The Placebo Effect exists. Bro’s got a low level healing spell that grows stronger the more he believes it works.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Also money. It only works if you believe in it, yet it controls all of society
pyre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
they work even when you know they’re placebos. now that’s magic.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
If it works. I do not care how.
thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
I agree. However, to me, something feels wrong about companies making money selling a product to people with the promise that they work when they don’t actually do anything in and of themselves. It’s false advertising plus taking money out of people’s pockets.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 11 months ago
IIRC, studies have also shown that the cost of the placebo had a direct correlation to the efficacy. Ah yes: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345649/
el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
It’s not stupid if it works
lugal@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
But be careful with the dose
Aceticon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Take too much of a placebo and you might end up with a nocebo side-effect.
SurpriZe@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Just pretend you took an ephemeral pill. Placebos work like that too.
ryan213@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I just go with whatever’s on sale.
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
For me, it’s whatever is in the biggest bottle.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What if the pharmacy has, like, a whole vat of them?
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I only use homeopathic placebos.
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Placebo is one of the most underrated bands.
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BrucePotality@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Nani the fuck
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 11 months ago
Fuck, the spambots found lemmy.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Haha, can’t look away for a few hours. >:(
Marcbmann@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ah, Zicam. I’ll never understand how shit like that is allowed to make claims
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Its a multibillion dollar industry
popcap200@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
This is very true after learning about guaifenesin, phenylephrine, and Docusate Sodium.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Brand Named Extra Strength!
TheDoctor@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I’m getting fucked up on cough medicine tonight. I’ve got this homeopathic stuff that I hear is insane.
Muscar@discuss.online 11 months ago
Very relevant and pretty recent SciShow episode:
katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
The funny thing is that the “extra strength” placebos likely have a better chance of working. The more elaborate and involved the placebo is, the greater the chance of it actually working even if you know it is a placebo. Our minds are weird. As always, I’m too lazy to look up the actual study so I don’t know if it was a quality study or not.
agentshags@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The important thing is that you believe there was a study ;p
katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Yeah, I haven’t read the study of course. Only read about it. Which makes the claim above even more dubious. But hey, this is the future, who has the time to fact check anymore?
Aceticon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Somebody from Behavioural Economics has actually shown a nocebo effect for something with genuine positive health effects when people tought it was an ultra cheap version.
The story of that is in one of the Freakonomics books.
variants@possumpat.io 11 months ago
But you also might get more nocebos where you get negative effects from the placebo
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Trick yourself better you rube.
melooone@feddit.de 11 months ago
This reminded me of an episode of Mind Field, which shows significant improvent in cases of ADHD, Migraines, and a skin picking disorder in kids just through the placebo effect.
They use elaborate set ups and suggestions like a turned off MRI machine, fake nurses and doctors in lab coats, etc. And the kids are actually told, that it’s their brain doing the healing, not the machine.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I believe it’s red placebos that are better at helping with pain.
The brain is a fucky old thing.
Duranie@literature.cafe 11 months ago
It’s been a while since I looked at this, but different color pills “work” better for different ailments. Also the size and numbers of pills effect results as well. Two pills are “stronger” than one, bigger pills over smaller as well.
jlow@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Yeah, I heard that the placebo effect for pain meds is stronger in the US (than in Europe?) because there’s more advertisment for it in the US (how they made sure this is causation and not correlation I have no idea, though …)