TED英语演说-睡眠是你的超能力（中英语）.pdf

睡眠是你的超能力 Thank you very much. Well, I would like to start with testicles. Men who sleep five hours a night have significantly smaller testicles than those who sleep seven hours or more. In addition, men who routinely sleepjus t four to five hours a night will have a level of testosterone which is that of someone 10 years their senior. 非常感谢。额，我想先说说睾丸。那些每晚只睡五个小时的男性相比每晚睡够至少七个小时的男性，有着更小 的睾丸。除此之外，习惯性只睡四到五个小时的男性，他们的睾酮水平和比他们年长十岁的人差不多。 So a lack of sleep will age a man by a decade in terms of that critical aspect of wellness. And we see equivalent impairments in female reproductive health caused by a lack of sleep. This is the best news that I have for you today. From this point, it may only get worse. 所以，从睾酮这一关键的健康指标来看，缺乏睡眠会让男性老十岁。我们在女性的生殖健康上也看到了由缺乏 睡眠导致的同等损害。这是今天我给你们准备的最好的消息。从现在开始，事情只会变得更糟。 Not only will I tell you about the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep, but the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don't get enough, both for your brain and for your body. 我不仅会告诉你们在你们睡觉时，会发生的美妙的事情，还会告诉你们当睡眠不足时，发生在你们大脑和身体 上的非常糟糕的事情。 Let me start with the brain and the functions of learning and memory, because what we've discovered over the past 10 or so years is that you need sleep after learning to essentially hit the save button on those new memories so that you don't forget. 让我从大脑以及学习和记忆的功能开始讲起，因为我们在过去十年的研究发现，在你学习完后，应该睡觉，以 按下新记忆的保存按钮，这样才不会遗忘。 But recently, we discovered that you also need sleep before learning to actually prepare your brain, almost like a dry sponge ready to initially soak up new information. And without sleep, the memory circuits of the brain essentially become waterlogged, as it were, and you can't absorb new memories. 但是最近，我们发现在学习之前你也需要睡眠，来准备好自己的头脑，就像是一块干海绵，准备好开始吸收新 的知识。没有睡眠的话，大脑的记忆回路就像是被堵塞住了，而你将不能吸收新的记忆。 So let me show you the data. Here in this study, we decided to test the hypothesis that pulling the all-nighter was a