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> the placebo effect plus whatever extra benefit the medicine provides.

Plus, the act of noticing those extra effects can give you another placebo effect on top, e.g. if the medicine has some noticeable effect, the placebo can get stronger, or cause other effects to accompany it.

Of course there is also consciously learning to leverage the effects of the medicine, which is a non-placebo~



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