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Placebo in Exercise (SciCast #481) (2022x15)

Air date: Apr 15, 2022

Imagine that you need to run from point A to point B as quickly as possible. What is the maximum speed you could maintain? Now imagine that you need to lift a weight. A gas cylinder or a piece of furniture. What is the maximum weight you could lift? Now imagine these same situations where at point B there is a person you love very much who is between life and death waiting for a medicine that is with you at point A. Couldn't you get a little more from your physical performance? Where was that strength? Where did that physical resistance come from? When we talk about the placebo effect in sport we are talking about mechanisms that can boost our physical capabilities and unlock some physiological reserves.