“Rethinking the Placebo Effect: How Our Minds Actually Affect Our Bodies”

“Marchant brings to light a striking new dimension of the placebo effect that runs counter to how the phenomenon has been conventionally explained. She writes:

“Why I had to escape my Ivy League life and disappear”

“I needed to break from my old life of high pressure and unreasonable expectations.

I grew up in Louisville, Ky., where my mom, LaCreis, worked as a cancer-research scientist at the University of Louisville. It…