So your belief or expectation in a pill doesn't seem to have much effect on say the immune system

or your cholesterol levels or your blood sugar. So things that we're not consciously aware of and

you know taking a placebo is not going to be able to suddenly magically produce a chemical that

your body isn't normally capable of making. This is the art of charm. Learn everything you need to

know to crush it in business, love and life. Welcome to the art of charm. I'm your host

Jordan Harbinger. Today we're talking with Dr. Joe Marchin, author of Cure, a journey into the

science of mind over body. We're going to talk about the placebo effect. Is kiss it and make it all

better real? How emotional states influence your health? What the mind can really do? How it works

and why it works? And last but not least, how we can use these latest findings in our own lives

and harness our own placebo effect. Enjoy this one with Dr. Joe Marchins. And with that, welcome to

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answers, but we definitely have all the right questions. All right, let's talk to Dr. Joe Marchins.

So Joe, tell us what you do in one sentence. I'm a science journalist and author.

Great. And what I really like about this is you're not just a writer. You've got a PhD in genetics

in medical microbiology. And so you write about things that you actually know about. This isn't

kind of like, oh, I'm going to write about stuff and then exaggerate a lot of it. So it's more

interesting. Yeah, I'm a scientist by training. So having seeing the evidence is really important

to me and being rigorous is really important to me. I do sometimes delve into subjects that I wasn't

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