I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Recognize that your attention is the most valuable thing you can ever own, and you alone have the ultimate power to choose… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and… — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma,… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Imagine what we could accomplish if modern medicine combined the best that allopathic medicine has to offer, the Placebo Effect and the… — Paige Singleton Copy Share Image
I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“With a drug trial, everyone gets the exact same pill or the exact same placebo. With therapy, you can’t separate the tools… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“Occult Medicine is essentially sympathetic. Reciprocal affection, or at least real goodwill, must exist between doctor and patient. Syrups and juleps have… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“Whether we like it or not, we’re walking placebo and nocebo generators, able to create health miracles or disasters (usually without even… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death.… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
“The placebo effect has an evil twin known as the nocebo effect. This is when the expectation of harm or pain becomes… — Christian Jarrett Copy Share Image
Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own… — Clair Davies Copy Share Image
“Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“NOCEBO: Latin for "I will harm"; a negative placebo; physical manifestation of pessimism; self-fulfilling prophecy of disbelief. In the nocebo effect, a… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“The gun, my young friend, is that dark cousin of the placebo, the nocebo. If a placebo provides false benefits, the nocebo… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“When people think about a placebo such as the royal touch, they usually dismiss it as "just psychology." But, there is nothing… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers… — Kat Duff Copy Share Image
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
