I only use brand name placebos. Generic doesn’t work for me.
Placeboz
Submitted 5 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I find you have to use twice as much to have any effect.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Also money. It only works if you believe in it, yet it controls all of society
pyre@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
they work even when you know they’re placebos. now that’s magic.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
If it works. I do not care how.
thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
It’s not stupid if it works
lugal@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
But be careful with the dose
Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Take too much of a placebo and you might end up with a nocebo side-effect.
SurpriZe@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Just pretend you took an ephemeral pill. Placebos work like that too.
ryan213@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I just go with whatever’s on sale.
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
For me, it’s whatever is in the biggest bottle.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
What if the pharmacy has, like, a whole vat of them?
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I only use homeopathic placebos.
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
Placebo is one of the most underrated bands.
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BrucePotality@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Nani the fuck
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 5 weeks ago
Fuck, the spambots found lemmy.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Haha, can’t look away for a few hours. >:(
Marcbmann@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ah, Zicam. I’ll never understand how shit like that is allowed to make claims
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Its a multibillion dollar industry
popcap200@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
This is very true after learning about guaifenesin, phenylephrine, and Docusate Sodium.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Brand Named Extra Strength!
TheDoctor@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
I’m getting fucked up on cough medicine tonight. I’ve got this homeopathic stuff that I hear is insane.
Muscar@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
Very relevant and pretty recent SciShow episode:
katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
The important thing is that you believe there was a study ;p
katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
But you also might get more nocebos where you get negative effects from the placebo
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Trick yourself better you rube.
melooone@feddit.de 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
I believe it’s red placebos that are better at helping with pain.
The brain is a fucky old thing.
Duranie@literature.cafe 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 …)