Understanding the concept of placebo effect and why healing comes from the mind

Our mind is an important factor that plays a role in our daily activities. Becoming rich or poor in life always comes from the mind. Have you ever asked yourself why some people ended up becoming successful why others don't,this is because the mind of our respective individual differs.

This is also applies to our health, the way we feel atimes and the psychological effects that comes out with it always come from the mind.

Take for instance, when I was growing up as a child little did I know that some of the sicknesses or diseases we suffer today In our life may not necessarily be that we are sick.

Then I use to have this phobia concerning being sick. I often fell sick more especially when my elderly one's are sick. If you look at it critically you will find out that my own sickness comes as a result of my siblings being sick.

This to me comes from the mind. I could remember the day I went to hospital for a particular ailment, then I was feeling some kind of vibration in my entire body more especially in the leg legion. After some examination by the doctor, he termed the disease psychopathic. I tried asking him what he meant by that, the only answer he could give me is to issue out drugs promising me that I will get better.

One week later, I discovered that the drugs was actually working, little did I know that the the acclaimed drug is a placebo.
Waooo, aren't it surprising!
By now your mind may be going through different dimension what this placebo is. Anyway let's quickly go down

¶placebo

Placebo is an inactive treatment that is sometimes called "sugar pill". It comes in form of tablets or in a pill form. The only different between placebo and real drugs is that real drugs contains active ingredients why placebo don't.

Haven understood this. Why then do you think placebo is useful since it is not a drug. Placebo definitely is not a drug, it is more or less like inactive substance, some persons experience a benefit after an administration.

It is also a drug look alike substance that works with our mindset thereby making us to feel relieved when taken. This seems more confusing but that's the fact

Take for example a man who often takes pain relief pill to relieve himself from headache. If a placebo designed exactly like his pain relief is being given to him, you will find out that the man will still feel the same like when he takes his pain relief. this is because his mind has been program to do that.

Considering all this things and how placebo works, it is high time we talk about how this inactive medication plays a role in our body.
Placebo triggers a release of a hormone called

endorphins

Endorphins works in line with morphine and other related pain killer.
when feeling pains in any part of the body placebo taken triggers this hormone called endorphins thereby making you feel relieved from the pain you are passing through. Apart from this, placebo also can work with someone's

gene

Some persons are actually predisposed to respond more to placebo depending on their gene. A particular study finds out that there are some people with a gene variant that increases the level of brain substance called dopamine.

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This substance called dopamine are more prone to placebo effect.
This shows the healing power of placebo yet inactive.

Haven gone this far concerning placebo. I think we should also look into some benefits and positive effect of this inactive substances by taking a good look at this

The placebo effect has been found to impact people with major depression disorder. In one study, participants who weren't currently taking any other medications were given placebo pills labelled as either fast acting antidepressant or placebo for one week. After the week, the researcher took pet scans and told the participants they were receiving an injection to improve mood. participants who took the placebo labelled as an antidepressant as well as the injection reported decreased depression symptoms and increased brain activity In areas of the brain linked to emotion and stress regulation.source

As you can see above, placebo is also known to cause an improvement in some individual having depression.

conclusion

Following with what we have learnt from this article. It is so obvious that most diseases we think we suffer today comes from our mindset. Taking drugs which we all know helps us during illness, can only work perfectly if only we are convinced within ourselves that it will work. Placebo we all know is not a drug but it plays a role of a drug depending on how our mindset are being programed. So for that reason I will end this article by saying that our mindset is a major factor to our healing ability.