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RHR: The Healing Power of the Placebo Effect—with Jo Marchant
Category: Health
Duration: 00:43:24
Publish Date: 2016-03-24 10:00:18
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I asked Jo to come on the show because I recently read her book called Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body, and I mentioned it in an email recently because Jo has written extensively about the placebo effect, which is something that I’ve been interested in for many years and something that I don’t think gets enough attention because it has some very profound implications for how we approach our own healing, how we work with our kids when they get sick, and if you’re a clinician, how you work with your patients.

In this episode, we cover:

3:15  How Jo became interested in “mind over body" 4:50  Historical definition/conception of placebo effect 9:48  Measurable biological/physiological effect of placebo 19:38  Can placebo heal underlying conditions? 36:45  How to harness placebo effect

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Chris Kresser: I’m Chris Kresser and this is Revolution Health Radio. Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Revolution Health Radio. I want to apologize in advance for any audio quality issues today. I’m still in the process of moving my old home office to my new home office, and I don’t have all of my equipment set up yet. There’s also quite a bit of construction going on around the house and in the neighborhood, so we’ll do the best we can. I’m really excited today to welcome Jo Marchant as a guest on my show. Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist and author of three books. She trained as a scientist and has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London and a master’s in science communication from Imperial College London. Jo has worked as an editor at New Scientist and at Nature and has written on topics from the future of genetic engineering to underwater archaeology.
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