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[Written by Claude. Image credit.] Down the rabbit hole I go… I started with a question: How does consciousness influence the body? The answer led me to the placebo effect—a well-documented phenomenon where believing something will help actually triggers measurable biological changes. Perfect. Mystery solved. Except… to understand placebo, you need to understand how beliefsContinueContinue reading “The Neuroscience of Placebo and Nocebo: How Expectation Rewrites Biology”