The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
there was even a condition in which subjects were told on the day they receed the placebo you're about to get an injection of something that's going to decrease growth hormone but rather they experienced a genuine increase in growth hormone and decrease in cortisol in the exact same way they did when they received the active drug Summa triptan
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sumatriptan is known to increase levels of growth hormone and reduce levels of cortisol and indeed that's what they observed when people received these injections and then their blood was drawn growth hormone levels went up cortisol levels went down
they are injected with saline and they experience increases in growth hormone and decreases in cortisol which on the face of it might seem like wow that's incredible but based on what you've learned thus far in today's episode you could imagine that knowledge about growth hormone and cortisol somehow combined with the injection to lead to an expectation of increases in growth hormone and decreases in cortisol