The most amazing thing about the placebo effect, to me, is that it works even when you know that you're taking a placebo. There have been several studies that showed patients improved from all sorts of ailments by taking what they knew were sugar pills when compared to a control group that was given no treatment. It's possible that just the ritual act of taking a pill can help trigger the effect. The human mind is an amazing and enigmatic thing.

@The786legend

10 жыл бұрын

any chance you can link me in on any of those studies?

@reno2934

2 жыл бұрын

Its likely just the act of being looked after by some people you trust aka medical professionals, similar to the mother picking up their son in this example.

@rickojay7536

Жыл бұрын

I don't think that's true

@user-dg8du2ep4s

4 ай бұрын

​​@@rickojay7536become a member of the Hypnosis Training Academy in Washington USA Online check them out we would welcome you And you will be taught why the Placebo works And how it works And the Placebo Response Also the Ideometer Response Phenomena The Power inside the Brain will Astound you my friend

Not to mention the fact that a patient's own emotional state and expectations from his own illness directly affect his recovery, is a universally accepted medical truth. In fact this was told to me by my grandfather, a world-renowned surgeon with over 60 years of experience.

What amazes me is that in many cases of patients of Chronic diseases Allopathy drugs consistently induce the Nocebo effect as evidenced by the Spontaneous progression of the Chronic disease whereas Homeopathy medicines consistently induce the Placebo effect evidenced by the Spontaneous regression of the Chronic disease

Great stuff! Delighted you enjoyed it.

Glad to see your channel is getting the recognition it deserves! :D

I’ve been studying/trying to understand hypnosis for a long time. Changed my mind about it a few times. Recently I started thinking maybe it works in a similar way to the placebo effect. Your explanation is amazing. Many of the things the placebo can effect are the same that hypnosis (supposedly) effect. I think the most important thing for me to take away is that almost all results for both methods are short term, and don’t truly fix the problems. They seem to change your attitude to “ok, I don’t need to feel that pain right now because I’m safe”. I think a lot of people make the mistake of seeing short term relief of an ailment as proof of a cure. Thank you so much!

@matheuscervo892

2 жыл бұрын

You should check the work of people like Daniel Moerman about the placebo effect, it has a lot of data about the results that a placebo can get. There is tons of anthropological data that says that a placebo can have long-term effects, so it isn't as simple as you said.

@AnthonyScottGames

2 жыл бұрын

@@matheuscervo892 I can agree on a couple things. Def not simple. Just trying to keep it short. Also, no doubt there have been people who have lasting effects from both placebo and hypnosis. I just think that as a percentage, that group would be very small. I also wonder if there is some aspect of placebo and hypnosis that’s overlooked or misunderstood that could be the key to unlocking those effects for more people. I’m not trying to say anyone is right or wrong, but that it’s something we don’t truly understand yet. Thanks for your recommendation, I’ll check it out.

True, we did this in Iraq, people would ask our platoon medic for help and all we could do was give them an 800mg ibuprofen. They thought we were helping them. I think it may have something to do with getting rid of the stress, cortisone and adrenaline can cause long term health issues and suppresses the body's immune system. I also think it has something to do with the power of thought that has only recently been studied in science. In time we will learn more about how our world works.

This does not explain the placebo effect. It simply speculates as to why it happens from an evolutionary perspective (in a non-falsifiable way, I may add). The important question, however, is how a phenomenological state, a belief, can cause physiological change for the benefit of the organism.

@Er404ChannelNotFound

9 жыл бұрын

Just like the protection of a family, in our modern societies, we developed the believes that medications will help us, so we stop the adaptive responses, because our bodies are what is making us feel them, pain, nausea and fever are all "made up" by our subconscious so that we'd do something about it instead of just sitting down, watching KZread, while you have headache, you try taking an pill, which helps taking away whatever makes your head aches, but taking a fake pill, which would only take away the pain, because your body (due to past experience with pills) thinks that this pill will easily treat your headache, and thus, you feel better, surely, this is debatable, because the placebos remain a mystery of the many mysteries of the human mind

@alipiofernandes1

9 жыл бұрын

Healing the pain is easy to explain, now I would like him to explain the healing of a cancer through placebo effect.

@Er404ChannelNotFound

9 жыл бұрын

Átila Firmino It's probably because our body has the ability to fight cancer, but we have to use the placebo effect to induce the feeling of 'needing to fight a part of itself' into the sub-conscious, placebo effects are still not fully understood though, but the 'beliefs' of the conscious can and will change how the subconscious and thus the immunity system works, time to make some googling about the placebo effects and cancer relationship

@alipiofernandes1

9 жыл бұрын

FirstName LastName I agree with that, but doctors and scientists in general simply ignore the power of self-healing of our body. I myself notice the effect of meditation and relaxation exercises in my body.

@Er404ChannelNotFound

9 жыл бұрын

Átila Firmino Oh, just to note, I'm not an idealist or spiritual

Subbed at 3:59, then thought about it and wondered why I didn't subscribe before. Then I remembered I was paying attention to the very well-made, very high quality, interesting video. Nice job!

I've always wondered about this, and I have tried to explain it to my friends but they think I'm just being stupid, but if I tell my self that the pain isn't real or that something doesn't actually hurt then I find that it actually goes away, it's not pain, it's just a sensation.

thanks elmo

I have actually tried this thing called self healing. I just didnt know that we even had a name for it. Just saw this now & agree with it. It works ;-)

Hi, it's called 'Scwarz by The Jakesperiment' - we put music credits at the end of each film.

The amazing thing about this video is that it also explains why placebos work even when the person given the "medicine" knows it's a placebo: he or she subconsciously knows that if real medication was necessary, that'd be what the doctor would have prescribed.

@N0Xa880iUL

2 жыл бұрын

I feel it also says a lot on the matter of free will.

Really glad alltime10s showed me this!

I'm watching all 10 of these videos in the 10 unanswered questions, and I'm doing so in a sort of means to find informative science channels. My rule was that I would watch all 10, and go back afterward to subscribe to the ones I found the most informative or enlightening. This is the only one so far that I'm subscribing too before finishing the rest. I don't want to lose this one.

Thank you, thank you!

After watching some of those top10 channels which are basically aimed at people with an attention span of 30s and are more about entertaining than informing, I was starting to feel let down. The quality ones I had already subscribed to and the other were simply popscience. This channel made up for it all! Very clear, very informative. I will definitely watch more videos on this channel in the future! Great work.

wow this was awesome. Thank you!

Great! Hope you enjoy our other videos...

When the boy's mother turns up, his wound doesn't suddenly heal. His injury is no better than it was before, but he feels better because his mother is there. Therefore his mother is (or administers) a placebo. Many parents and carers of children do this consiously by 'kissing it better', and it works. This is a valuable use of placebo. The child is injured, they feel pain, which causes them to stay still and cry to atract the attention of an adult. If they were badly injured, they would have the best chances of surviving and recovering because they remained still so as not to cause further damage and got help as soon as possible. If they're not badly injured, the adult can administer a placebo and the child feels well again and can continue as before.

@andyhaochizhang

3 жыл бұрын

He’s talking about the pain, not the injury. IMO the mother in this example is not placebo, but represents help/safe environment. And the presenter was saying it doesn’t make much sense for the body to feel as much pain anymore once one of the main purpose of it (getting help) has been achieved. Even in the case of real injury, only reducing the pain, as long as it doesn’t hinder recovery, still improves the person’s wellbeing.

Eureka! Everything makes sense now, you are good at explaining!

Fantastically done!

Very awesome outro music. :D! Great video, RI!

Dude i love your art and this was very informative keep it up.

We aim for one o two per week but do check out our other videos or the Ri Channel website for the best of the web too!

Wow!...only new suscription out of the 10 unsolved mysteries...really really loved ur presentation...so calm yet so insightful...

why does this not have more views this is amazing

I acknowledge the reference and applaud you for it.

came from alltime10s. just subscribed. :)

Thanks for watching! Hope you subscribed...

Fantastic video, thank you! Not only was it very informative, but rather thought provoking as well. I've been intrigued by the placebo effect before (and the potential opposite effect, though I forget the term). Glad I discovered your channel through the "scientific network" here on youtube! Subscribed, and look forward to more :)

@danielclv97

2 жыл бұрын

you mean, nocebo effect? when you inflict pain and injury because you think a certain treatment could be innefective or even harmfull (hello anti-vaxers XD)

How is it possible I never came across this channel with all the science video's I watch?

Excellent video !

Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed it! - Justifies the late nights spent animating and editing this!

great video, very informative, thank you

Fantastic video, thank you so much! :)

An excellent video. I like the placebo hospital concept.

The placebo effect in my opinion is barely covered in this video. I saw and read about a doctor who told his patients that they were going to recieve the latest and best surgery on their knees to remove their osteoarthrits, but all the doctor did was just make cuts on the knee and nothing else and the patients that recieved the fake surgery all reported they felt completely healed. Also there was a dr. back in the early 20's i think, that healed a kids skin that was covered in warts because he convinced the boy that the skin disease was actualy something a lot less serious. imo the placebo effecct could save millions of dollars a year.

@Terra101

3 жыл бұрын

You can't patent placebo

@Terra101

3 жыл бұрын

@@rainbowwaves5531 Yes lets hope. But what i meant was that all they care about is making money, and if you can't patent something, nothing will happen. It's pretty sad. Also that's why the snake oilers can do their thing, because of placebo. But if the placebo really works, aren't they fixing you? Lol. For placebo to work you kinda need to be lied to right?

@lawshorizon

Жыл бұрын

Yes, its possible to heal a medical condition that you're born with and medically impossible to fix by the book (like the boy with the wart-like problem). However, this is rare.

I love the tone of this vid.

Love this channel! Also others that make up a large,awsome,knowledgeable,cool,KZread family seen on Alltime10s latest video.

Brilliant explanation

The thing about Placebo is that it only changes your perception, not your body's actual response. This and the fact that it only works if we think it works makes it likely that it is made in order for us to ignore problems we've already solved by removing the remainder of the problem from our perception. Also, the predator issue is irrelevant when it comes to pain, because the sheer thought that a predator is chasing you blanks your mind from pain with the desire to escape and live.

@claqcake

9 жыл бұрын

Jarod Alien ***** The Human body is capable of fighting of bacteria, heal broken bones, repair organ tissue, etc. All of its own, well almost. The process need a control centre, the brain. What brain areas are not that important, but its important to know that there is alot of automatic processes in the body that we never get to our perception. And as always the brain is very complicated, so how its wired between the frontal lobes (reason and thinking) to all the other parts in the body involved with that spesific response to a, broken bone. or to dull down the nociceptive reseptors (pain). is not yet well know, or its known ofc how it works, but not why it works. But the body can truly "change your body's actual response" thats why it works so well. so the body can indeed "fight the condition itself"

@joeypchajek

5 жыл бұрын

It changes your perception, your perceptiin then changes your body's response. You perceibe safety and love abd happiness and your body produces hormones that match this.

keep videos like this coming out! (:

So does the placebo effect also work directly on the causes of a disease? Like bacteria, like toxins, like broken bones? Or does it only work on the physiological responses to these causes?

Awesome! That lead me to some great reading material on that effect and more specifically how it relates to wind turbines and the inhabitants around them.

Fascinating Video thanks!

Loved it!

Thank you very much for posting this! May I include a link to this video in an article I am writing on this topic?

This is so interesting. Whoever came up with the all time 10s, or whatever it is called, is a marketing genius! Haha, you all have the same audience, but I never knew about half of the channels featured. This video is particularly interesting to me, I am not studying medicine, but, idk, its fun to think about I suppose!

Thank you vsouce that u showed channels like this

but the best part about the placebo effect is the fact that it works on psychological problems as well, and unlike physical problems it's essentially costless, I think that fact is just so great. I simply love the ways our brain works.

@N0Xa880iUL

2 жыл бұрын

Physical and psychological are not separate. Physiological is also largely a physical phenomenon of imbalance, no matter the cause.

I believe that our minds, albeit all different, are a lot "stronger" than we know on a conscious level. Another example, (keep in mind this is still mere opinion), is fear. When I was younger, I would be afraid of walking in the dark, due to the horror movies I've scene. Even though none of those dolls or demons were real, my mind kept recalling those terrifying memories and my body would be paralyzed with fear. Genuine paralysis, I wouldn't move and my heart would beat faster and I'd sweat.

Your video was very well done, good show sir'

Very good video! :)

Liked and subscribed, nice video, looking for more.

This is a very good learning day :-)

Explained very well

but seriously, this was a very interesting video, glad I was brought here.

Amazing video

Favorite video ever!

this channel is criminally undersubscribed.

great video

amazing video

Thank you elmo, I feel better noe

It's taking people time to get to us from the All Time 10s #supercollab video (we are question number 5)

This is probably the most civil and well mannered chain in KZread, thank you both for restoring my faith in humanity and rendering the common notion that KZread is only good for religious wars, moot.

Subscribed to both of you :)

Very interesting video

Thank you very much, sir!

I don't think anyone should argue that people that are ill don't need to seek medical aid, however the profiting mechanism of the drug corporations have turned the getting treatment into gambles where too many people are given drugs they don't need for ailments that they don't have. Trauma care has advanced significantly and is very effective today. Most know by now that stress reduces the bodies ability to heal itself, so outside of trauma care, placebos can actually be substantially powerful.

Simple, informative and to the point, unlike that Spangler Effect disaster. The jittery animations with a faint weird music in background are a bit unnerving, like that suffering stickman at 1:00, but I like even more for it

Thank you dude.

also, thank you. Great video, subscribed!

I like this man. +1 to your subscribers.

I like how this man speaks. And he also looks like Richard Wright which makes me happy :)

Lately I've been getting into science and the world of wonders and this is the first I'm hearing about placebos. I am amazed that I can regenerate just bye thinking that there is no pain. Someone comment back to me if I have anything wrong or factually incorrect or grammar!

Thanks so much

THIS IS WHY YOU DONT FEEL THE PAIN OF A CUT UNTIL YOU SEE IT. As in sometimes, you suddenly notice a cut or a bruise on your body and you don't remember when it happened and it suddenly starts hurting!

Brilliant!

His voice is great.

While I was working today, a kid came in with a headache, and so I gave him a sample sized icecreame (which we give out for free) and told him it would help his headache, and probably stop it. I figured that receiving something, and being told it would help, from someone who looked smart and kind, would be enough to induce the placebo effect. He told me it REALLY HELPED, and I was smart enough not to tell him why.

awesome video just found this channel. I was super happy when I saw your title; "evolutionary psychologist" I think its one of the most interesting subjects in the world. Something I find myself thinking about every day in a lot of situations, trying to analyze WHY humans do and say things in the way they do.SO COOL Can you suggest some good books on the topic? I see The Human Zoo behind you, that sounds interesting? Foundations of Language? Up from DRAGONS???

This is great

wow thats realy smart i like that i am going to use that in an debate some day thanks

Considering this is a video about an unanswered question, the guy actually presents a rather convincing answer.

I looked at it like this: In the animal kingdom we have fights between males in many species. When someone wins those fights he is seen as the strongest, gets appreciation, bangs the ladys and so on. The other one(s) however, actually grow weaker (not in all cases), kind of a "depressed" state, being more vulnerable to illnesses and generally having less strength. I remember reading this somewhere but don't ask me where and please tell me if this is all misinformation^^ Now back on topic: The benefits of those individuals to become weaker are that those genes are definitely not gonna get passed on and those "useless" individuals might become one less mouth to feed I would say. Now for humans, those with a strong mind are clearly the kind of individuals one would favor(beneficial for the group and all that), they are gonna get through illnesses easier, therefore having a higher chance of passing on their genes. Does this make any sense? Just an idea.

@ChaosNo65SolarWind

10 жыл бұрын

It does. It's not politically correct, but that IS the way nature works.

@anima94

10 жыл бұрын

Dark Knight If it is the truth it cannot be politically correct or uncorrect, it is just the truth. (assuming it is true)

@ChaosNo65SolarWind

10 жыл бұрын

DarkAnimaYT For politics and such, there's always 'truths' that aren't the least bit true. I agree that's how it should be, but lots of people prefer different truths, not just on this subject, which is often too bad.

@anima94

10 жыл бұрын

Dark Knight truth is something objective, those people are prefering different ideas and not truths

@shivangikansal8025

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry but I cannot understand on what trait you compare humans. Like for animals, it is simple, physical strength, better defensive abilities and hunting. How can you compare hunay, we have so many fields, for eg, higher IQ is preferred over physical stronger one. But you cannot eliminate physically stronger one because he can serve as your protective soldier.

Thanks!

Contrived optimism line cracked me up haha

+ a more correct answer would be: the placebo effect (in the 1st (correct) sense of the word) works because it a way to determine how much energy and recourses we should dedicate towards healing. When we receive a soothing from our mother, and/or caring attention from doctors, and/or prescribed treatments from entities we trust, we are basically being told that in their opinion (which we value higher then our own, given they are an authority on the matter of healing and safety)...

Your video only talked about the medical use of the placebo effect, but it can also apply to the acceleration of weight loss and the increase of muscle mass.

thank you elmo

i'm going to a lecture at the RI tomorrow night!

Though it is true that prematurly curing pain, fever, and/or nausea could be a risk, the placebo effect has been shown to temporarily increase stamina and strengh, like those rubber braclet things or wheat grass.

Well to me the video was saying that the boy's leg felt better because he felt safe; it didn't fix it, his mind exaggerated the pain to receive help. In other words, someone with a cold given a placebo feels better not because their cold was improved at all but their mind just gives out a signal saying that the discomfort is no longer required... help has arrived. Meaning that they don't heal, they can't.

Whats the music at the end? Btw subscribed.

Interesting stuff. Medical science is definitely not something I look in to, but this is cool.

This answers the question of how one lowers the side effects of injury or disease (e.g. nausea, pain, fever) but I want to know why the placebo effect can effectively cure a disease or an injury not just the side effects...

Powerful!

If you consider it a rare pleasure, just think how often one gets a compliment reply. Thanks. I'm not sure I believe in a general intelligence, but the impatience of some to think about what they could be saying, could convince one otherwise. You are obviously contemplative and that is all I was being. May you have many ponderings ahead!