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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Is the placebo effect getting stronger?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The placebo effect is pretty freaky when you think about it: just believing that a harmless substance is a medicine can really produce measurable benefits. It sounds crazy, but the placebo effect is real, and its implications continue to fascinate scienti

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0:00.8

From UFOs to ghosts and government cover-ups,

0:03.6

history is riddled with unexplained events.

0:06.4

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

0:15.7

Hey everybody, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.

0:18.8

And I am Ben.

0:20.3

And today we're going to be talking about something that I've been doing since I was a wee

0:25.9

hike. Something my mom taught me.

0:29.2

Whenever I feel like I'm getting sick and you know we're in the cold season right now and I tend

0:35.6

to get one nice bout of sickness every year and I have gotten the sickness ever since I was a

0:41.8

little boy. And what my mom would do is give me a giant glass of orange juice and she would say drink

0:47.6

this. It'll make you feel better. And so now even you know I'm 30 now.

0:53.7

And this year I've been drinking orange juice like a madman

0:57.0

because I feel like it's going to stave off this sickness that's coming on. I know it's coming.

1:02.9

But what I've learned over the course of the past few months is that this is

1:09.4

the vitamin C isn't actually doing anything to my immune system.

1:13.2

Huh, okay. That power of belief that vitamins really yeah aren't doing anything about that.

1:20.0

Well they're probably still good for you even if even if it's true that they're not doing

1:24.0

anything. It's good for my body but it has no direct effect.

1:27.5

Well let's take a more extreme example. Do you have asthma? Do you know anyone who has asthma?

1:33.2

I did have asthma as a child. Oh yeah. I grew out of it. I had wimpy white boy syndrome.

1:38.0

What the heck is that? And that's something that my wife has talked to me about.

1:44.1

I don't know. It's something about our genes man. I got all these recessive genes in me.

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