As for how the placebo effect works?

至于“安慰剂效应”的效果如何？

On one hand, it's a placebo effect.

一方面，这是一种安慰剂效应。

Now a study finds that there may be levels of placebo effect.

现在一项研究发现安慰剂效应也分级。

The full phrase placebo effect didn't become common until the early 1900s.

“安慰剂效应”直到 20 世纪初才变得普遍。

I don't know. Some sort of placebo effect, I guess. Placebo, you say. Interesting.

不知道，算是安慰剂效应吧。安慰剂，是吧？有意思了。

Dimitrios Tsivrikos: In all honesty, a number of these creams are used as placebo effects.

迪米特里奥斯·崔弗里科思：老实说，大部分面霜都只起到自我安慰的作用。

This idea is similar to the placebo effect, where people's beliefs about a treatment actually change the symptoms they experience.

这个想法类似于安慰剂效应，即人们对治疗的信念实际上改变了他们经历的症状。

Placebo effect can actually change your physiology.

安慰剂效应实际上可以改变你的生理机能。

We might today call this the " placebo effect."

今天我们可以称之为“安慰剂效应” 。

I think it also crosses over with the placebo effect.

我认为它也与安慰剂效应交叉。

There is the possibility for a placebo effect here.

这里可能存在安慰剂效应。

Is that just a placebo effect that I'm feeling?

我感受到的这只是安慰剂效应吗？

It's the opposite of the more well-known and much more fortuitous placebo effect.

它与更广为人知、更偶然的安慰剂效应相反。

Whether, besides improving general health, the mechanism Dr Fredrickson and Dr Kok have discovered helps explain the placebo effect remains to be investigated.

除了提高综合健康水平，弗雷德里克松博士和可可博士发现的机制是否有助于解释安慰剂效应，还有待进一步研究。

Despite everything we know about the human body, there are still some strange and enduring mysteries, like the placebo effect.

尽管我们对人体了解一切，但仍然存在一些奇怪而持久的谜团，例如安慰剂效应。

For centuries, doctors have recognised the placebo effect, in which the illusion of treatment, such as pills without an active ingredient, produces real medical benefits.

几个世纪以来，医生已逐渐认可了安慰剂效应。因为患者会产生错觉，认为自己在接受治疗。比如，服用无活性成分的药片也能产生实际疗效。

Among its best-known functions is the placebo effect, where a patient can feel better after simply being given the impression of being treated.

其最著名的功能之一是安慰剂效应，患者在简单地获得接受治疗的印象后就会感觉更好。

Not a lot, but there are some things that we do that are for the placebo effect to make someone think we're doing something.

不多，但我们做的一些事情是为了安慰剂效应，让别人认为我们在做某事。

Unfortunately, most of the studies that came to these conclusions were flawed: many results were anecdotal, and control groups were not established to take account of the placebo effect.

不幸的是，这些结论大多数都是有缺陷的：许多的结果都是道听途说的，并没有设立相应的对照组以用来考虑安慰剂的影响。

Some believe that instead of being real, the placebo effect is merely confused with other factors, like patients trying to please doctors by falsely reporting improvements.

一些人认为，安慰剂效应并非真实存在， 而只是与其他因素混淆，例如患者试图通过虚假报告改善来取悦医生。