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The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

The Placebo Gains

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Flexibledieting, Fitness

5 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In today’s episode, we’re talking about placebo. The word originally comes from one that means “I shall please” (1:49). However, fast forward to today, it’s an intervention that has no true physiological effect but has such an effect on your psychology. Back in 2004, a study was done with two groups of people with advanced Parkinson's disease, which Miguel makes sure to discuss in more depth (4:23). 

Moving forward, let’s go into the topic of supplements and placebo (8:15). More than 95% of the supplements on the market are placebo benefited, which means that people taking a certain supplement thinks it is doing more than it’s actually doing. CBD being a prime example (9:00) because of the conditions you have to keep in mind that are susceptible to placebo. Those conditions include things that are chronic, highly subjective, lack physiological symptoms, and have fluctuations - anxiety, digestives, and headache to name a few (10:45). Going off of these conditions, Miguel explains that it is the expectation that an individual has from a certain treatment that induces the placebo effect (11:47), as well as having a diagnosis of the condition you have. For example, if you have gut problems or a sleep disorder, a strong diagnosis will significantly improve your symptoms, even if it’s the wrong diagnosis (12:40). If you’re in pain and you’re given a solution, you want it to work, even if it doesn’t.

Previously, a study around chronic pain (17:09) was done where people were told they were getting a placebo effect, yet those people still felt reductions in their pain levels. This study just goes to show that a sense of hope and a vision of better times are so powerful. To wrap up this episode, Miguel dives into a final animals vs human study - taking placebo out of the equation (21:52), the effect on the outcome of the treatment based on the individual giving it to you (25:20), and the complexity of/your adherence to the treatment itself (30:39)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the flexible dieting lifestyle podcast.

0:11.6

I'm your host, Zach Rushelow.

0:13.0

I'm with my co-host, Miguel Blakut.

0:15.1

And today's episode is one.

0:17.5

I've been extremely excited about recording because I've seen this radiate and not only in my life

0:24.6

but I mean honestly the whole world like ever since I've truly understood the power of it and that is

0:31.9

placebo it's unbelievable the things that our minds can do when we believe something is happening for us.

0:40.6

It's a simple reframe or something's meant to help us in some way, shape, or form, or something's meant to hurt us.

0:48.0

It could be flipped on its head.

0:50.4

Its perspective is everything.

0:52.0

And if you've seen that, I mean, you can look at the world in 10 different ways based on what your perspective is.

0:58.5

But before I go into way off on a tangent in the beginning, I just want to preface that this episode is going to be absolute fire.

1:07.6

So make sure to tune in and take a screenshot right now, post it up on your Instagram

1:12.3

story, let people know that you are listening to this episode, learning about placebo

1:16.1

and the power of it. And also, if you could please those five-star reviews on iTunes or whatever

1:21.8

platform you listen to the podcast on, they help tremendously. We appreciate it so much. So, Miguel,

1:27.1

let's get into this episode. I think

1:29.2

to start it off, I think the first thing that people need to understand is what the heck is

1:34.1

placebo. So we need that absolute scientific definition. And then kind of let's go over some of the

1:40.0

different scenarios of when placebo happens and what the research says about placebo.

1:47.2

Awesome. So yeah, to start it off, a placebo originally comes from the Latin word that means

1:54.2

I shall please. And initially a placebo was something that was intended to please the patient psychologically rather than give

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