Placebo Effect Expert Tells All

--Fabrizio Benedetti, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Turin Medical School, joins David to discuss the placebo effect and when it is and isn't helpful for patients

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Broadcast on January 11, 2018

[roeva]

David, these interviews you conduct are excellent. They set you apart from other sources of alternative media, and, are a good reason (in my opinion) as to why financially-supporting your show is warranted.

Keep up the great work.

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[fleshtonegolem]

I have had VERY similar arguments with people that believe regardless of a Homeopathics efficacy if they experience a placebo effect because they believe it will make them better, then Homeopathic medication is a valid form of treatment. No matter how hard I tried to explain how ridiculous that idea is they couldn't see my point. Personally, if the only reason it works is placebo, prescribe someone meditation. It's free and it doesn't support an industry of lies.

[markallen]

I have heard that the Native Americans use positive input to heal. I as a Native American raised in the white world and have gone home to my people have witnessed this phenomena. Please do not get me wrong, the elders that I have met, in Minnesota, have a great knowledge of the local plants that actually cure. When I met my wife who is a Native American and is a R.N. for decades have attested to placebo, native medicines and traditional modern medicine. Way Cool video David. Thank you. Mark

[tomhahnl]

Great Interview, thank you for sharing!

[GeorgeLocke]

"theatrical" placebos tend to have a stronger "placebo effect"; this it's one key fact about placebos that didn't come up in the discussion, one that can explain, for instance, acupuncture.

[foreverwantingpie]

After a placebo surgery, someone will feel better without having a fresh surgery than they expect, which is another confounding variable.

[geezzerboy]

Doesn't he know about Double-Blind? The person giving the medicine doesn't know if they are giving the real drug, or a placebo. That was to eliminate the very phenomena he describes. The social element, the giver, convinces the person that they will get well, is he saying that the social context is most important? Wouldn't that work equally with the drug and the placebo?

[Yayev]

His answer about the ethical problem didn't fully make sense to me. If a person thinks they're paying for 10mg of morphine, but receives 1mg of morphine + the added psychosocial effects of the placebo, then how do you justify the same cost? Is it because they're actually paying for the "treatment" and not the "drug"?

[NathanOkun]

Doesn't this show that HOMEOPATHY (using minute amounts of a substance to get a clinically-measurable effect) is TRUE? It seems to be the same kind of thing.

[stevem]

The placebo effect isn't long lasting.