716: Jo Marchant | Placebos and the Science of Mind over Body
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jo Marchant (@JoMarchant) is an award-winning journalist, speaker, and author of The Human Cosmos, The Shadow King, and the New York Times bestseller Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind over Body. [Note: This is a previously broadcast episode from the vault that we felt deserved a fresh pass through your earholes!]
What We Discuss with Jo Marchant:- How to understand the power of placebos.
- How your immune system can be trained.
- Why stress kills and how to beat it.
- The importance of social relationships and how to boost them.
- Does believing in God make you live longer?
- And so much more…
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.2 | There is another type of placebo effect which relies not on your conscious |
| 0:08.7 | expectation but more of an unconscious learning process where if you take a |
| 0:13.2 | drug several times your body learns the physiological response to that drug and |
| 0:17.8 | then if you take a placebo your body automatically triggers that same |
| 0:22.6 | physiological response. |
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