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And any pharmacologists, Are people who have advanced degrees in pharmacology here in the room
這里有專攻藥理學的嗎
Well, you're gonna just have to take my word for it then
那你們相信我就是了
That there is a substance in nopales
仙人掌中有一種物質
That is absolutely similar to something which is found in Metformin or Glucophage
很類似于格華止中的成分
Does anybody know what that is?
誰知道格華止是什么嗎
That is a medication for diabetes
這是一種糖尿病藥物
It is probably the most common medication for diabetes in this country
也許是美國最常用的糖尿病用藥了
So what you have here is a tradition
可見這里的傳統中
of not only eating healthy foods, but of having your pharmacy sitting right in front of your house
吃的不僅是健康食物，還是藥物，藥物就在家門口
And these are one of the main sources of greens for the Tarahumara
這就是塔拉烏馬拉人的主要青菜來源
And they go out and they pick these nopales and they eat them and they grow them and they're eating their antidiabetic medicine
他們自己種植，采摘食用這些仙人掌，而這同時也是抗糖尿病藥劑
Now, I met Taurino
這個人叫Taurino
He's half Tarahumara and half
他有一半塔拉烏馬拉血統
He calls himself mestizo or mixed
他稱自己是混血兒mestizo
And he showed me his garden which was another jumble of stuff
他帶我參觀了他的菜園，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.
他告訴我哪些他種的菜，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，涼薯，肉桂，香菜
and just in case you don't Taurino
沒人告訴他，他就知道
Well, a bunch of researchers went down there from the University of Mexico and study the plants down there
一些來自墨西哥大學的研究者去過那里，他們研究了那里的植物
And this is an article that was published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology
這是發表于民族藥理學雜志的一篇論文
And they found 306 species of plants growing in that region that lower blood sugar
他們發現當地有306種能降低血糖的植物
