# 23 The Placebo Effect Part 2

Published: June 2, 2018, 7:53 p.m.

This is part two of a recording that originally appeared on Inertia TV https://www.twitch.tv/inertiatv_\nKate Rusk, Coffee Brown and I discuss why back surgery is the ultimate placebo, what makes our brains work the way they do, and how doctors can harness the placebo effect in our practice. We riff on martial arts, religion, and of course, evolution too