Yes I agree with what you say and do you agree that placebo works from confidence as I have experienced.
For example my blood Sugar levels were high just recently.
In fact it were close to diabetes 2, so I used the Glucose Index to slow down absorption of Sugar.
Result was that my Sugar levels were corrected on top of which my BP levels returned to normal.
(I'm trying to find out now if there is a correlation between those two). In the process of lowering my Sugar intake over seven weeks I lost a stone in weight.
Finally due to that result my "white coat syndrome" completely disappeared.
So yes the path that I took worked in tow with placebo because over those weeks I felt a confidence of what was happening to me.