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The Belief Effect

How the Placebo Response Reveals the Real Science of Belief, Expectation, and the Mind-Body Connection

Autor: Teresa Hopkins
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Independently published
Disponibilitate: Așteptăm intrarea în stoc
Ediția 19. 07. 2026
116.24 lei
A nurse runs out of morphine on a battlefield, injects a wounded soldier with salt water, and tells...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Teresa Hopkins
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2026
Pagini
374
EAN
9798187373086
Enbook ID
53244737
Editura
Independently published
Greutate
501
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 20

Descriere completă

A nurse runs out of morphine on a battlefield, injects a wounded soldier with salt water, and tells him it's a powerful painkiller. It works. Welcome to the strangest, most rigorously documented phenomenon in medicine.

The placebo effect is usually told as a punchline - the sugar pill, the gullible patient. The truth is far more interesting. Your expectations measurably change your brain chemistry, your hormones, your immune signals, and your experience of pain. Belief is not magic. It's biology. And science has finally mapped how it works.

Teresa Hopkins delivers the full story with clarity, honesty, and zero hype.

Inside, you will discover:

• The rise of the placebo - from 18th-century quack tractors to the randomized trial that changed medicine
• Which conditions answer to belief - the honest map of where expectation works wonders and where it does nothing
• The brain on expectation - endorphins, dopamine, and the chemistry of hope
• The nocebo effect - how warning labels, doctors' words, and dread can genuinely make you sick
• Why the expensive cure works better - pill color, price tags, ritual, and the theater of healing
• Honest placebos - the astonishing trials where sugar pills worked even when patients knew
• Belief in sport, stress, and aging - how mindset measurably moves performance and biology
• The science behind manifestation - what the placebo response validates, and what it doesn't

Compassionate and clear-eyed throughout - being sick is never a failure of faith - this is the definitive reader's guide to the most underrated force in health.

The pill was sugar. The effect was real. Here's how.