68: Placebo Advantage

True Life

Everyone has heard of “the placebo effect” and it’s usually treated with disdain. We don’t want mind games to fix us, we want a literal ingredient or treatment. But here is the deal, your mind games, your expectations, can cause a placebo to heal you or cause a literally beneficial treatment to fail you. What you expect has a dramatic effect on your reality. Do you expect your exercise to enhance your health? Do you expect your nutritional supplements to enhance your health? Do you expect your efforts to eat healthy to enhance your health? The bigger issue is your awareness of how you feel and what you expect from all your efforts. If you have doubt or bitterness in regards to any of your efforts you are likely sabotaging them. But you’ll be incredibly well served to increase your positive expectations of improvement. As you will hear in this show, Dr. James and I have great faith that our expectations are incredibly powerful placebos in our overall levels of health and wellness.

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