Michael Mosley carries out an experiment for Horizon to examine the positives of the placebo effect.
In this programme Mosley “tricks” a group of people who are all suffering chronic back pain to take some medication which is actually a placebo in order to examine how taking a pill that actually has no effect than help you by tricking our mind into helping you. Mosley also examines a placebo that seems to work even though you know it is a placebo.
The Placebo Experiment is on BBC Two at 21.00.
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