The few studies that exist have shown the difference in the nutritional profile is minor as I said, it's marketing which is effective and why business spend so much money on it.
Placebo effect is a real thing. People will think a harmless cream is painful or salt water is morphine if you tell them it is convincingly enough.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/the-mysterious-nocebo-effect-a-drugs-side-effects-may-hinge-on-its-price-tag/
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/just-sugar-pill-placebo-effect-real/
https://www.wired.com/2009/08/ff-placebo-effect/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/hallucinations-and-perception/
Placebo effect is a real thing. People will think a harmless cream is painful or salt water is morphine if you tell them it is convincingly enough.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/the-mysterious-nocebo-effect-a-drugs-side-effects-may-hinge-on-its-price-tag/
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/just-sugar-pill-placebo-effect-real/
https://www.wired.com/2009/08/ff-placebo-effect/
Everyone is susceptible to being fooled:By Stephen B. Smith, Ph.D.
Regents Professor, Department of Animal Science
The internet is awash in websites proclaiming the nutritional benefits of ground beef from grass-fed cattle. However, researchers in the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University have published the only two research studies that actually compared the effects of ground beef from grass-fed cattle and traditional, grain-fed cattle...So, at this point, there is no scientific evidence to support the claims that ground beef from grass-fed cattle is a healthier alternative to ground beef from conventionally raised, grain-fed cattle.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/hallucinations-and-perception/
In a paper released last week in Science, a team from Yale University set out to understand how we interpret the world around us—in short, how we determine what’s real and what’s not. They suspected that people who regularly hallucinate perceive the world based on what they expect to happen, while others, who don’t hallucinate, would rely more what their senses are telling them is happening in the world.
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“I did not expect that people who did not have a psychotic illness would perform so similarly to people who did hear voices,” Powers says. “They were very, very alike.”
“Really healthy people that don’t hallucinate in their everyday lives—graduate students, and postdocs, and highly accomplished people—were very, very susceptible to this effect, even the ones who didn’t hear voices. They were more susceptible to it than I expected,” Corlett says. The study contributes to the idea that schizophrenia, much like autism, may exist as a spectrum, the authors say.
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