 Hey there, this is Anton and you're watching Psyc2Go. Now today, I'm gonna be talking about the placebo effect. I'm sure most of you have heard about the placebo effect since it's one of the most famous psychological occurrences known to us. It's been proven countless times by many different people and we are sure that it's definitely an actual thing. Although it is so widely accepted, very little is actually known about this effect. I just want to add a little side note. Just because I talk about placebos in this video and how a lot of the pills that we take are just that, please do not stop taking any pills that you are prescribed by your doctor. Be sure to talk to your doctor before you stop taking any prescribed pills. Either way, here are the top five amazing facts about the placebo effect. Number one, placebos are an effective way to treat injuries. Knee surgery is a very common procedure. Our knees get frail and weak and many people seek to get relief from that. However, it has been proven that simply putting a person under an anesthetic can be sometimes as effective as the actual procedure. I know plenty of adults who have had knee surgery and are actually doing worse now than they did in the past. So simply getting a placebo surgery could sometimes be more effective than actually getting the surgery itself and much cheaper. Hooray! Woohoo! Number two, placebos have been getting more and more powerful throughout the years. Ever since this effect has been discovered in the 1700s, it's been more and more effective every single year. One explanation for this could be the mere trust in our doctor. We believe that if we go to the doctor, they'll instantly heal us and everything they give to us to try and help us, we think will a hundred percent be guaranteed to work, even if what they're giving us is simply just a placebo. Now, although this has not been proven, there could easily be a correlation between the trust in our doctors and the increasing power of the placebo. Number three, placebos work in animals as well. Humans are not the only animal affected by the placebo effect. In fact, the placebo effect works very well on dogs. Well, how does a dog know that what it's taking or being injected with is actually going to help it? We don't know. All we know is that once a dog is introduced to a certain sedative drug, the third or even second time it takes that sedative drug, it will have a very similar, if not identical effect on the dog. Number four, the color and the shape of the pill matters. Humans can be easily manipulated subconsciously. Things like shape, color, texture all affect our perception greatly. There's this guy named Darren Brown. I'll link some videos in the description. He has some great stuff where he convinces people what they want for their birthday and even convinces them to rob a bank with him. But coming back to the topic, research has been shown that yellow pills are actually the best at treating depression. Green pills are much more effective at treating anxiety and white pills have been shown to soothe issues such as ulcers. It has also been proven that taking more than one pill a day will usually have much stronger effects. Also, having a brand name such as Advil or Tylenol on the pill bottle has been shown to have much greater effects. I guess we as humans are just prone to subliminal messaging. And number five, the one that I personally think is the craziest one on this list. Placebos have an effect even if you know they are simply placebos. Professor Ted Kaptrick from Harvard Medical School took 80 patients suffering from irritable bowel syndrome. He split them into two equally sized groups. One that would get no treatment at all and they'd just be studied. And one that would just get a placebo pill, but they were told that it was just a placebo. Now, although Kaptrick made it very clear that this was simply placebo, it did have some effects. Everyone in that group made it clear that they were in fact feeling much better compared to the group that got no treatment at all. This one fact just makes me go, there's just so much we don't know about the placebo effect. And there's just so much that we don't know about ourselves as humans in general. But through studies like this and research like this, there's much more that we discovered. Thank you guys so much for watching this little video about the placebo effect. If you want me to talk about something specific, comment about it below. Be sure to like and subscribe to Psych2Go. I'll see you in the next video and I hope you guys have a fantastic day. Peace out!