This week Luke asks if it might all be in our heads? Or a lot of it anyway. While many of us are surely familiar with the idea of the placebo effect, what about the nocebo effect and the incredible power of suggestion on our minds? Luke picks apart the science that tries to understand why real physical conditions can be brought about not by illness, but by the power of suggestion.

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