Dr. Alia Crum
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When they gave people a placebo, sometimes they told them it was Maxalt and other times they told them it was a placebo.
So now you're able- It really screwed everybody.
Okay.
So what did you find?
These are fun studies.
What they found was fascinating, right?
So the most pain relief came from the Maxalt labeled Maxalt.
When you had the real pill and believed it was a real pill, you had the most relief.
So you got settings in the mind and the biology together.
Exactly.
Got it.
But now get this, when they were given the real pill, but told it was a placebo, it worked significantly less.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
Right?
And it still worked, but just not as well as the pill plus the belief.
Okay.
And in fact, it worked about the same as a placebo pill...
labeled Maxalt.
Exactly.