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这一讲的医生Daphne Miller，是美国很有名的结合医学普及者，在很多电视节目中讲过健康知识。著有畅销书《丛林效应》。她有一个巴西病人，在美国肥胖、高血压、高血糖等问题都出现，但回到巴西亚马逊河流域，一切复原，回到美国后病症又出现。丛林是否有什么奇妙的效应呢？这一讲，她代领大家环游世界，到墨西哥铜峡谷、希腊克里特、北国冰岛、西非喀麦隆、日本冲绳岛等地，寻找各种传统饮食和传统文化中的长寿秘诀。
n. 糖尿病
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- And any pharmacologists, Are people who have advanced degrees in pharmacology here in the room
- 这里有专攻药理学的吗
- Well, you're gonna just have to take my word for it then
- 那你们相信我就是了
- there is a substance in nopales
- 仙人掌中有一种物质
- That is absolutely similar to something which is found in Metformin or Glucophage
- 很类似于格华止中的成分
- Does anybody know what that is?
- 谁知道格华止是什么吗
- That is a medication for diabetes
- 这是一种糖尿病药物
- It is probably the most common medication for diabetes in this country
- 也许是美国最常用的糖尿病用药了
- So what you have here is a tradition
- 可见这里的传统中
- of not only eating healthy foods, but of having your pharmacy sitting right in front of your house
- 吃的不仅是健康食物，还是药物，药物就在家门口
- And these are one of the main sources of greens for the Tarahumara
- 这就是塔拉乌马拉人的主要青菜来源
- And they go out and they pick these nopales and they eat them and they grow them and they're eating their antidiabetic medicine
- 他们自己种植，采摘食用这些仙人掌，而这同时也是抗糖尿病药剂
- Now, I met Taurino
- 这个人叫Taurino
- He's half Tarahumara and half
- 他有一半塔拉乌马拉血统
- He calls himself mestizo or mixed
- 他称自己是混血儿mestizo
- And he showed me his garden which was another jumble of stuff
- 他带我参观了他的菜园，也是什么都有
- But then he started to show me all these things in his garden that he knew to lower blood sugar.
- 他告诉我哪些他种的菜，他知道是降低血糖的
- Okay, things that he was producing like cayenne and things like jicama and cinnamon and cilantro and so on
- 包括辣椒，凉薯，肉桂，香菜
- and just in case you don't Taurino
- 没人告诉他，他就知道
- Well, a bunch of researchers went down there from the University of Mexico and study the plants down there
- 一些来自墨西哥大学的研究者去过那里，他们研究了那里的植物
- And this is an article that was published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology
- 这是发表于民族药理学杂志的一篇论文
- And they found 306 species of plants growing in that region that lower blood sugar
- 他们发现当地有306种能降低血糖的植物
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