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For me it really started very locally here in my office in San Francisco
對我而言，出發點就是我舊金山的辦公室
As Dr. Chesney explained, I'm a family physician first and foremost
Chesney醫生講過，我的主要工作是家庭醫生
And that really is what grounds me and centers me in my work
這是我一切工作展開的基礎和中心
And I spend most of my days in an 8 by 10 room
我每天都在8×10的房間辦公
As a matter of fact I had a resident here today
我有個同事在這里
So she can attest to that and working with patients on an individual basis
她能作證面對面同患者交流
both on helping them figure out ways to get healthier and to fight the illness that they have
幫他們找到對抗疾病并恢復健康的方法
And it was really in hearing those stories
正是患者的故事
that I started to become inspired to do this work
激發了我工作的靈感
And particularly hearing from patients who come from all over the world who're kind of telling me about a recurring theme
有些患者來自世界各地，他們講自己疾病的反復問題
That was that when they would go back to their native village wherever it was, they would tend to get healthier
他們回到自己的故鄉后，病就會好些
And then they come back to San Francisco, they feel worse again
然后回到舊金山，就又開始惡化
And there's one patient, in particular, Angela, who I talked about in the book
有一個叫Angela的患者，書中我講過
who went back to her village in Brazil on the banks of the Amazon River
她老家是巴西亞馬遜河邊的村莊
She was actually back there for three months
她回老家三個月后
and in that time, really managed to take what was high blood sugars
就將原來的高血糖和高血壓
and make them normal again and brought her blood pressure down and lost a bunch of weight
調整到正常水平，還減了很多體重
and started to reverse her a lot of the health problems that she had
她的很多健康問題一下子都好了很多
and then she came back to San Francisco and everything went bad for her again
但回舊金山后，這些毛病又還原了
And she was in my office trying to figure out why it was that she did so well in the Amazon and did so poorly here
她跟我講了這個情況，很不解亞馬遜邊和這里有什么不一樣
