So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about placebo and how powerful of an affect it create. Not just in your head but on a cellular level.
As we know, almost every drug or bio experiment has a standard trial and placebo trial to truly test the product. We also know that most of the time, the placebo group without knowing they are the placebo group will have subjects that are still affected in the same way or different as those who are properly being tested with a product even though they technically had nothing at all. Their cellular structure completely changes, they get noticeable symptoms and feel the difference. Whenever I hear of a scientific study, there is always a comment about the placebo group. Its so fascinating…
Our minds are that strong willed and that unexplainable that we can literally make changes in our body without any external factors aside from “we thought it was blah blah blah”. Like what kind fo voodoo black magic is that? Now I’m not saying that you can basically think anything into existence or if you believe strong enough that something in your body will happen it will happen, because even that has been experimented and the mere thought of you tricking yourself is too strong of a inclination for a “placebo” affect to work. THAT again is how powerful our minds are! But I still ponder…
So what’s happening? Are we actually being affected? If its placebo then no technically you didn’t take the drug or the acupuncture doesn’t work or you’re not really “feeling the spirit come over you”. But if on a cellular level, things are changing then isn’t it happening? Even though on surface level nothing has changed but if on a molecular level something has, well then hasn’t something taken place? I can’t seem to make up my mind about it, I go back and forth…
So maybe we shouldn’t shut down and poop on other people beliefs or methods because we are all different and the thing that you swear by, someone else has tried and had no success and visa versa. Sort of off topic but you can see how I got here.
For example, whenever I get injured or hurt, everyones first response if for me to “put ice on it”. But I heard a scientist once say that ice is actually just placebo too and won’t make any significant difference. I think I blurred out some extra info with that, but that sentence has stuck to me and since then I never use ice or feel the need to. But to my own detriment, I am now also convinced that whenever I do use ice it is doing nothing beneficial for me. And maybe it won’t because of this strong mind connection that I can’t seem to fathom.
Anyway just some food for thought. Who the heck knows whats happening all up inside us!
Peace