Książka The Belief Effect Teresa Hopkins

The Belief Effect

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

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Dostępność: Zapowiedź
Wydanie 19. 07. 2026
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A nurse runs out of morphine on a battlefield, injects a wounded soldier with salt water, and tells...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2026
strony
374
EAN
9798187373086
Enbook ID
53244737
Waga
501
Wymiary
152 x 229 x 20

Pełny opis

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.