Placebos Can Make You Better

By | October 21st, 2015|Categories: Sports|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

There is a great article in The New York Times describing  how placebos can enable athletes to perform better. The argument is that believing that a pill or shot will boost performance (when it really just saline) causes us to tap into a reserve of energy (mental and physical) that propels us faster and longer. [...]