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Did you know that one of the first fertility drugs was made from the pee of Catholic nuns, and that even the Pope got involved?
你知道世界上第一例催孕藥是用天主教修女的尿合成的，甚至與大主教也有關系？
So, this is totally true. Back in the 1950s, scientists knew that when women enter menopause,
這是真實的事件。20世紀50年代，科學家們發現當女人進入更年期時，
they start releasing high levels of fertility hormones in their urine.
她們的尿液中便開始出現含量極高的生殖激素。
But there was this doctor named Bruno Lunenfeld,
但有位名叫布魯諾·盧內費爾德的醫生想知道，
who wondered if he could actually isolate those hormones from the urine and use it to help women who are having trouble getting pregnant.
他是否能將那些激素從尿液中分離，并用其幫助不孕不育的婦女們。
Obviously, the problem with this was that in order to test this idea, he needed a lot of pee from older women.
問題很明顯：為試驗這一想法，他需要搜集許多年長婦女的尿液。
And that is not an easy thing to find.
然而那絕非易事。
So he and his colleagues got special permission from the Pope
他和他的同行獲得了大主教的許可，
to collect gallons and gallons of urine from hundreds of older Catholic nuns.
從幾百名年長的天主教修女那里收集了若干加侖的尿液。
And in doing so, he actually isolated hormones that are still used to help women get pregnant today,
這樣一來，他就將那些仍利于今天的婦女懷孕的激素分離了出來，
though now, they can be synthesized in a lab, and gallons of pee aren't necessary.
雖然現在，這種生殖激素可以在實驗室合成，并且也不再需要大量的尿液。
So why am I standing up here, telling this wonderfully intellectual audience about nun pee?
那么，為什么我要站在這里，向在座的各位精英講述修女的尿液呢？
Well, I'm a science journalist and multimedia producer, who has always been fascinated by gross stuff.
事實上，我是一名總是癡迷于研究惡心事物的科學記者兼多媒體制作人。
So fascinated, in fact, that I started a weekly YouTube series called "Gross Science,"
這種癡迷驅使我在一周前創立了一個名為“惡心科學”的每周Youtube視頻系列，
all about the slimy, smelly, creepy underbelly of nature, medicine and technology.
展示了自然、醫藥和科技中所有黏滑的、難聞的、令人毛骨悚然的部分。
Now, I think most of us would agree that there's something a little gross about pee.
我認為大多數人會承認尿液有點惡心。
You know, it's something that we don't really like to talk about, and we keep the act of doing it very private.
尿液屬于一些我們不喜歡談論的事物，而我們會將其控制得極其私密。
But when Lunenfeld peered into the world of pee, he discovered something deeply helpful to humanity.
但當盧內費爾德仔細觀察了尿液的世界，他發現了使人類受益匪淺的東西。
