Cepabol placebo capsules

Capsules with no active ingredient.
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Harness the well documented power of the Placebo Effect with no side effects. Read more about how the placebo effect can help you.

“Even if they know it’s not medicine, the [placebo] action itself can stimulate the brain into thinking the body is being healed”

Ted J. Kaptchuk Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Pain management

Placebo has been shown to reduce undiagnosed pain

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Sleep disorders

Placebo has been shown to improve sleep in patients with objective insomnia

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Irritable bowel syndrome

IBS is a condition which is documented to be reduced with the use of placebos

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Depression

Studies have shown significant decreases in depression symptoms when participants took a placebo

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Menopause

Hot flushes caused by menopause have been reduced in placebo trials

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Back pain

Nearly half of the volunteers in this study reported a medically significant improvement in their back pain

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The placebo effect

Your mind can be a powerful healing tool when given the chance. The idea that your brain can convince your body a fake treatment is the real thing — the so-called placebo effect — and thus stimulate healing has been around for millennia. Now science has found that under the right circumstances, a placebo can be just as effective as traditional treatments.

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The strange powers of the placebo effect

A look at the many strange effects of placebos

You’ve all heard of the placebo effect: when something with no known therapeutic value can actually make people feel better. It’s a great trick our minds play on us that by believing and expecting something to work; it actually does.

But what’s weird is that the strength of the effect can differ for some really strange reasons. For example the same placebo can treat pain half as well as aspirin while at the same time treating pain half as well as morphine. Morphine’s a much more powerful painkiller but a placebo seems to be half as effective as both at the same time!

Saying a placebo will reduce pain reduces pain, but saying that the same placebo will increase pain increases pain. Believing that a placebo will make you feel better will make you feel better. Believing that it won’t has the opposite effect.

Placebos aren’t just pills – they can be creams, injections, surgeries or drinks. You can even get placebo buttons. They don’t actually do anything but they sure as hell make you feel like you’re in control.

But not all placebos are equal. The effect of the placebo is bigger when the pill itself is bigger or if you have 2 instead of 1, or 2 once a day, instead of 1 twice a day. And a capsule will usually beat a pill. And a syringe will usually beat a capsule, and anything with a big-ass science machine can outperform any of them! A plain pill works worse than a branded one. A discounted pill works worse than a pricey one. And even a pill in a plain box does worse than one that’s all shiny. Placebos that are blue work best as downers and placebos that are red are better as uppers.

Studies have shown that people who take their meds on a regular basis are less likely to die than those that don’t even if those meds are all placebos. In fact the effect of placebos can be so strong that some people want them banned from sports but I mean how would you even test for that!?

Remember that all of this is about comparing things that both have nothing medically effective in them, which goes to show that a placebo isn’t about what’s in it but about the beliefs that we load onto it.

Our minds create the medicine and that is pretty weird!

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Treating yourself with your mind is possible, but there is more to the placebo effect than positive thinking.

Placebos often work because people don’t know they are getting one. But what happens if you know you are getting a placebo?

A 2014 study led by Kaptchuk and published in Science Translational Medicine explored this by testing how people reacted to migraine pain medication. One group took a migraine drug labeled with the drug’s name, another took a placebo labeled “placebo,” and a third group took nothing. The researchers discovered that the placebo was 50% as effective as the real drug to reduce pain after a migraine attack.

The researchers speculated that a driving force beyond this reaction was the simple act of taking a pill. “People associate the ritual of taking medicine as a positive healing effect,” says Kaptchuk. “Even if they know it’s not medicine, the action itself can stimulate the brain into thinking the body is being healed.”