Yesterday's conversation with guest David Meine was so intriguing that Walt decided to bring it into today's conversation with Jodielynn as well. We talk about the interaction between medical / scientific evidence and belief / mindset. Modern medicine is beginning in small ways to embrace mindset and belief in terms of personal preferences, but there's also a lot of room for improvement. Walt ends up proposing a modification to double-blind, placebo controlled studies. He suggests adding four new test schemes. In addition to testing a particular substance and a control group, he also advocates testing both the substance and control group with the test administrator praising the thing being tested as the next great thing. He also suggests two more variants of the substance and control groups where the administrator of the test expresses doubt or concern about the efficacy of the thing tested. The idea is to really explore all of the different ways that our beliefs and preferences impact our medical outcomes in relation to a particular healing modality. And finally, he also proposes medical doctors explaining both the placebo-free likelihood and the placebo-enhanced likely outcomes to the patient, so that the patient understands how important it is to adopt a positive mindset toward the objective of their own healing. Follow LOA Today: https://www.loatoday.net/follow