How does Placebo work?

Hormones.

Fun fact: Voodoo is real and it can kill you. This has been medically documented. It's called the nocebo effect.

It convinces the brain to release endorphins, which are like opiates. The placebo effect can be blocked by naloxone, which blocks opiates.

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"One article that reviewed 31 studies on nocebo effects reported a wide range of symptoms that could manifest as nocebo effects including nausea, stomach pains, itching, bloating, depression, sleep problems, loss of appetite, sexual dysfunction and severe hypotension."

so endorphines can cause cancer to recede?

Truth.
People interpret their state in a manner that is skewed by their expectations.

Your mind is an integral part of your body, and your beliefs interact with your physical health through a variety of neurological mechanisms, some poorly understood.

Yes. You can also induce cancer under the same principle.

The body is a series of organs and tissues.
One of these organs, in fact, a central organ, is the brain.
The brain partially controls signals for biochemical, antibody and threat processes.
Some of those process work independent of the brain, but the brain can also convince the body that it is in either a relaxed state or a threatened state, thereby influencing or triggering reactions.

A great deal of medicine is actually the masking of symptoms or inadvertent reactions being refined into a system process of delivery and action (birchbark being used for headaches, for instance is a happenstance, not a design).

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