Placebo Pills and Placebo Tablets from Zeebo Effect
- Zeebo® is the original pure honest placebo pill. Zeebo Effect is the honest placebo effect and You are the active ingredient.
- We also offer unmarked placebo pills, custom placebo pills, placebo tablets, placebo capsules for researchers. Check the menu.
- Buy placebo pills from the original placebo brand trusted by consumers, clinicians and researchers since 2014.
Zeebo Honest Placebo Pills for The People
What is Zeebo Effect - The Honest Placebo Effect?
All you can expect from a placebo is a placebo effect. We do not promise anything else. What is Zeebo about? Two things: Whether you get a placebo effect, or not, matters. For symptom management, the placebo effect can make up as much as 80% of the total treatment effect. You really want to make sure that get that 80% if it is available. Second, people can experience a placebo effect, even when they know they are taking a placebo - and especially when they understand what a placebo is. We at Zeebo are all about raising awareness about the placebo effect and want to support people in skillfully obtaining the maximum placebo effect possible. Every healthcare professional should strive for that. That's why we made Zeebo. We only offer placebo, but your placebo response is what matters. It is about your mindset, expectations, previous conditioning, your body's ability to help itself, the design of the placebo experience, and some other aspects that are currently explored by placebo research. It might be helpful to think about it as a mind-body integration effect.
Uwe Heiss, Founder Zeebo Effect
Peer-reviewed Clinical Research Studies Using Zeebo® Placebo Pills as Honest Placebo
We at Zeebo do not make any claims. How could we? Our products do not perform better than placebo. It is in the placebo space itself where we operate. Our comparison is honest placebo vs doing nothing. In the clinical studies linked below, Zeebo was used as an honest placebo. One group of participants received Zeebo capsules with "zeebo" printed on the capsules. They were told that Zeebo is a placebo and they understood that it contains no active ingredients. A control group did not receive a placebo. In these studies, the groups that received honest placebo did better than the control group. These studies looked at chronic back pain, test performance, and anxiety during covid. It would not make sense to say that Zeebo works. What works is your mind and body engaged in a placebo experience. A branded placebo that is safe and clean can help with creating that experience. The studies were done in groups, but not every individual in the honest placebo group responded to placebo. It is difficult to predict who will benefit from placebo, but you can increase your odds by designing your placebo experience well. You don't need to believe that placebo will work for you, but such a belief can help. In the case of the study on test performance, a group of students who expected that taking an honest placebo could help them, did actually do better on the test. Have a look yourself. The publications are linked. The exact same placebo that was used in these studies is available on this page.
Short-Term Low Back Pain Relief, Randomized Controlled Trial
Stress Relief and Student Performance, Randomized Controlled Trial
Placebo Tablets, 10mm diameter, Ze logo, 45 units
White Placebo Pills, size-1, no-logo, 45 units
Blue/white Placebo Pills, size-1, Ze Logo, 45 units
Zeebo® in the News
American Family Physician Journal: Am Fam Physician. 2021;103(2)
Short-Term Low Back Pain Relief with Placebo
“Over three weeks, patients with long-term low back pain who knowingly took placebo twice a day reported less pain and disability than those continuing with treatment as usual. This is not the only study to show the benefit of placebo. Whether the benefit persists is not known. A nonprescription placebo (Zeebo) is available, or pharmacists can prepare placebo capsules. (Level of Evidence = 2b)”
CBS New York Channel 2 Evening News Covered Zeebo Honest Placebo
The Authentic Placebo Maker
By 2012, Uwe Heiss had enrolled more than 140,000 patients in research studies for pain management at leading US research hospitals, but the question of what helps us get well still perplexed him. Prospective, observational studies for conventional pain management often showed response rates that are typical for placebo. Intrigued by this riddle and inspired by clinical studies on honest placebo use (Ted J Kaptchuk: Placebos without deception: a randomized controlled trial in irritable bowel syndrome, 2010), he decided to make the world’s first commercially available ethical placebo. He designed the Zeebo brand to help people tap into the full potential of taking placebos knowingly. To him, the intentional taking of placebo can sharpen our awareness and support our bodies’ inherent ability to get well. 10 years after its launch, Zeebo Effect is now the world’s leader in the Honest Placebo niche, with several independent honest placebo studies with Zeebo published in renowned medical journals. Beyond Honest Placebo, Zeebo supplies conventional clinical trials with standard and custom-designed placebo options, world-wide. Interview in TIME Health with Uwe Heiss
The Gummy Bear Effect
I had my first experience with placebos when I was very young. This is one of my very first memories. Whenever I had a minor injury as a child, my mother would place a Gummy Bear on the boo-boo, the site of pain. She would tell me that “this gummy bear helps against pain” and that I was allowed to eat the gummy bear when the pain was gone. She told me that green gummy bears were especially powerful. Tears dried on the spot. I experienced immediate pain relief. Today I am still surprised about how pain can turn into just a fading memory, and how attention shifts to some other attractor. My placebo-experience catalyzed a shift from pain and anxiety to relief and restored well-being. It all took place in a caring environment that made it absolutely safe to get better. I still remember and can recall that feeling of absolute trust.
From the book The Placebo Cure: And Other Mind-body Effects, Uwe Heiss, © 2015
Customer Endorsements
Uwe Heiss
Zeebo Founder
I use Zeebo to work on my concentration power. How do you use Zeebo?
Georgina
I have to admit that … I really didn’t believe in Zeebo placebo pills… So after a few days I was surprised to realize that it was actually working for me!!
Gail
I used Zeebo to draw my attention to healthy eating habits. Taking the pill and logging it in the app distracted me from mindless eating.
Bill
A big part of ridding ourselves of our ailments is to take control over them. Zeebo is kind of weird, but in a mysterious way, empowering.
Tony
I take Zeebo placebo pills for occasional headaches. Several times now I took a Zeebo and that was all that I needed.
Original Honest Placebo Pills Made by Zeebo Effect
- Zeebo Tablets – white placebo tablets
- Zeebo Imagine – white placebo capsules
- Zeebo Relief – light-blue placebo pills, with Zeebo logo
Zeebo® placebo pills and placebo tablets have been designed with much care, produced at FDA registered manufacturing sites in the USA following Good Manufacturing Practice. We created the Zeebo® brand to help you design a safe and effective, honest placebo experience. When taking Honest Placebo, you are the active ingredient.
Each placebo pill or placebo tablet contains 250mg of Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC), an inert fiber. Zeebo® never contains sugar or lactose. Zeebo placebo tablets are made from MCC. Zeebo placebo pills are filled with MCC. The capsules used for our placebo pills are vegetarian or bovine gelatin. Please check the product label for ingredients when you buy placebo pills.
Our Products
Branded Honest Placebo Tablets by Zeebo® Effect
Launched in 2022 – Zeebo® Tablets, the Only Ethical Placebo Tablets
Zeebo placebo tablets: the consumer version features the Ze logo on each placebo tablet. Our standard clinical trials placebo tablet is plain white, no logo. Custom colors and shapes are available. Research support services and GMP shipping included.
Launched in 2021 – Zeebo® Imagine, All Natural Placebo
Zeebo Imagine provides a canvas for your intentions and expectations. This Pure Honest Placebo container comes with 45 white unmarked vegetarian placebo capsules filled with 100% Microcrystalline Cellulose. Capsules are size-1 and easy to take.
FAQ – Honest, Pure, Branded Placebo Pills
Why Honest?
Open or honest placebos are a new concept. A person who takes an honest placebo pill knows it only contains inert ingredients. There is no deceit involved. There are several studies published on taking honest placebo in a safe setting.
Why Pure?
Historically, sugar has often been used as a filler for placebos (sugar-pills). However, sugar is somewhat of an active ingredient, so it can cause problems for people with, for example, diabetes. Fillers in pure placebo capsules are inert—they pass through the body without much interaction.
Why Branded?
Today, brands play a tremendous role in the marketing of products and services. Brands convey meaning that reaches the subconscious. Branded Zeebo placebo pills harvest the power of modern marketing to promote well-being. Our branded Zeebo Relief pills come in the Zeebo brand color in light blue and white, with the Zeebo logo printed on the white section of the capsule. Zeebo branded capsules are unique. Zeebo is The Healing Brand.
How do I take Zeebo® placebo pills?
Before taking Zeebo, make sure it’s safe. Do not use Zeebo to delay or replace medical treatment.*
Design your Zeebo experience:
- Focus on one symptom.
- Describe what you expect from taking Zeebo.
- Define when to take Zeebo.
Experience Zeebo:
- Track the symptom before and after taking Zeebo placebo pills.
- Take Zeebo several times to gather enough information.
- Assess your experience with Zeebo and make design changes as needed.
Does Zeebo work for me?
The way to know if you respond to the Zeebo experience is to try it out. Always take Zeebo in a safe way.*
What is special about Zeebo?
Zeebo is a unique solution to promote well-being. We created a branded pill-taking experience and combined it with a unique tracking app. You are in control, because you
- create your own placebo pill experience that is safe and grounded in powerful product and brand design
- track and become aware of how well you respond to the Zeebo experience
How does it work?
How does it work?
Get “The Placebo Cure – And Other Mind Body Effects” as PDF book for free here
The Placebo Cure is for anyone who seeks to explore the power of their mind and body to relief symptoms, self-heal, enhance performance, and grow as a human being. We cover the core experience of Western health care: taking pills. The minimalist version of this experience is designed to convey meaning, set expectations, and trigger healing in the absence of active ingredients – taking pure placebo pills. We’ll rethink what placebos are and how to design placebo-taking experiences that are honest, safe, and beneficial. Enjoy this journey into the re-design of pill-taking experiences, fascinating studies, and mind-boggling hacks for complex systems. My wish is that this book helps you, that it advances care, and that it stimulates more research in this important field. – Uwe Heiss
Why buy placebo pills from Zeebo Effect?
ZEEBO IS SAFE.
People who take Zeebo placebo pills know Zeebo is free of active ingredients. Zeebo mainly contains Microcrystalline Cellulose.
ZEEBO IS MADE WITH CARE.
ZEEBO IS THE ORIGINAL HONEST PLACEBO BRAND.
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