Ten years ago, researchers stumbled onto a striking finding: Women who believed that they were prone to heart disease were nearly four times as likely to die as women with same risk who didn't hold such views.
Person is convinced that something is going to go wrong, so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Cancer Deaths
90% of pateints who were told they will die from cancer did so, they OBLIGED on doctors orders. Patients who fight it usually live while patients who accept it that they are going to die interestingly produce nocebo effect which kills them. So trusting the doctor too much proved harmful in this case.
Nocebo Effect
The opposite of placebo effect, little is understood about this effect. The race is on to understand the precise mechanisms behind nocebo.
Self sabotage: What is happening in our brain?
Thoughts generate chemicals & being stuck on a negative thought can overdose us.The Role of Conditioning
When people have been conditioned to the power of such a thing, it sticks in the sub-conscious mind. Such “conditioning” helps explain why as many as one in three people become nauseated or even vomit on entering a room where they have recently received chemotherapy.
The Infamous Toona
Black Magic, researchers found it only affected those who believed it did. Their mind attacks the body. In case of African voodoo - Africans die from it, never a white person. The Pain study, which was led by Italian neuroscientist Martina Amanzio, reviewed 73 clinical trials conducted between 1988 and 2007.
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