The Placebo Response - How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health (Hardcover)

To most people, a placebo is a trick, a fake cure for an imaginary illness. Breakthrough medical studies have shown that very real pain and disease can be alleviated with a placebo. Though placebos themselves have no medical value, experts are now realizing that the body's response to them can produce a legitimate and often remarkable healing process.

In this provocative book, the authors combine cutting-edge research with practical advice, to explore the science behind the body's "inner pharmacy", and how people can harness its power rather than relying solely on pharmaceuticals for relief and healing. Disease is hardly ever "all in the mind", but the power to heal often is.