So I'm here to explain 我来解释一下 why I'm wearing these ninja pajamas. 为什么我穿着这样一套忍者睡衣 And to do that, I'd like to talk first 我想首先谈谈我们体内含有的 about environmental toxins in our bodies. 对环境有害的毒素 So
We found our second Blue Zone 我们找的第二个蓝区 on the other side of the planet, 在地球另一端 about 800 miles south of Tokyo, 离东京南部约800英里 on the archipelago of Okinawa. 在冲绳县的古拉格岛 Okinawa is actually 161 small islan
By the end of this year, 截止今年年底， there'll be nearly a billion people on this planet 这个星球上将有接近十亿人口 that actively use social networking sites. 在很活跃地使用社交网站。 The one thing that all of them have in com
I was called down to the ward to see him. 我被叫到病房去看他。 His is the little hand. 他的小手可以说是骨瘦如柴。 I was called down to the ward to see him 一名呼吸内科医生 by a respiratory physician. 将我叫到他的诊室。 He said, "Look,
And the first myth is if you try really hard 谣言一：如果你很努力地尝试， you can live to be 100. 你就可以活到一百岁。 False. 错了。 The problem is, only about one out of 5,000 people 事实上，在美国，每五千人中只有一人 in America live to be 100
But the idea that science can cure death 但科学能够治愈死亡的观点 is just one more chapter in the story 只是神奇的灵丹妙药故事的 of the magical elixir, 又一个章节， a story that is as old as civilization. 和古文明一样古老的故事。 But betting
And, if that wasn't bad enough, of course, 如果这还不算太糟糕的话，当然 all of this is rapidly progressing towards the fact that 我们很快可以看到另一个数据 many of you, in fact, about one in 10 of you at this point, 很多人，事实上
Something called the Danish Twin Study 一个叫“丹麦双胞胎”的研究表明， established that only about 10 percent 普通人在生物学允许的限度内的寿命， of how long the average person lives, 仅仅有百分之十 within certain biological limits, is dict
My editor at Geographic 我地理学的编辑 wanted me to find America's Blue Zone. 想让我找个美国的蓝区。 And for a while we looked on the prairies of Minnesota, 一时间我们观察了明尼苏达草原， where actually there is a very high propo
Clearly, people didn't want us to talk about death, 显而易见，人们并不希望我们和他们谈论死亡， or, we thought that. 或者，我们自己如此认为。 So with loads of funding from the Federal Government 所以，在联邦政府和地方卫生部门资金的支持下 and the local
So how can a hormone ultimately affect the rate of aging? 那么，激素到底是怎样影响衰老的速度呢？ How could that work? 原理是什么呢？ Well it turns out that in the daf-2 mutants, 原来在daf-2变异体中 a whole lot of genes are switched o
But as social scientists, we continue to ask 但作为社会学家，我们继续问 about possible alternatives. 是否有其他可能 We've said, well maybe older people 也许老年人 report more positive emotions 报告更多的积极感受 because they'r
Have you ever wanted to stay young a little longer 大家有没有想过要年轻再久一点 and put off aging? 延缓衰老呢？ This is a dream of the ages. 这是很久以来的梦想了 But scientists have for a long time 不过科学家以前一直认为 thought this just wa
Adam Ostrow: Hello. 亚当·奥斯丘：你好。 Death: Adam? 死神：亚当？ AO: Yeah. 亚当：是。 Death: Death can catch you anywhere, anytime, 死神：死神可以在任何时间，任何地点抓到你， even at the Organic. 甚至在你还是有机体的时候。 AO: Who is this? 亚当：你是谁？ Death
What would be a good end of life? 什么是一个生活美好的结尾？ And I'm talking about the very end. 我所说的是最终的结尾 I'm talking about dying. 我所说的是死亡 We all think a lot about how to live well. 我们都在想如何更好的生活 I'd
What am I doing here? 我为何还站在这里 Well, the fact of the matter is 事实上， the best science tells us that the capacity of the human body, 最可信的科学表明人类能活， my body, your body, 我和你们一样 is about 90 years, 大约九十岁 a l
And that was democracy growing up, 民主制度在当时正在形成 but it was also science growing up at the same time. 但同时科技也在发展 And it's really clear, if you look at the history of the Founding Fathers, 非常明显的是，如果你注
18 minutes is an absolutely brutal time limit, 十八分钟是一个非常紧的时间限制， so I'm going to dive straight in, right at the point 因此我直入主题，讲重点的， where I get this thing to work. 我将马上开始。 Here we go. I'm going
The geriatrician will intervene late in the day, 老年医学医生会在一个人老化过程的后段， when pathology is becoming evident, 病理越来越明显的时候， and the geriatrician will try and hold back the sands of time, 做治疗来尽量阻止老化时间 and sto
The therapies will be improving faster than 治疗法比起治疗法中存在的缺陷 the remaining imperfections in the therapies are catching up with us. 改进得更快。 This is a very important point for me to get across. 这是我想说的非常重要的
