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Can a Pill Help You Succeed?
聰明藥真能讓人精力充沛?
We want to take you into a kind of secret society, a hidden edge dicovered by some very successful Americans. We discovered sales of a little pill are not just booming. We have traced a 74% increaingly sales in 4 years. So, what is it? Does it work? And what is the risk? Here's ABC Stan Harris.
我們要帶大家進入一個神秘的世界，一些非常成功的美國人發現的隱藏的優勢。我們發現一種藥片的銷量非常火爆。4年的時間里，我們發現銷量增加了74%。那么，這種藥是什么呢？有沒有效果呢？其存在的風險是什么？ABC記者Stan Harris帶我們了解。
They're all around us. A secret society of the successful. The lobbyist, she wakes at 5 for two full workout before work.
我們周圍到處都是這種人。成功人士組成的神秘世界。這是一位說客，她早上五點鐘起床，開始工作前先進行了兩次全面的鍛煉。
"It's amazing, I just don't get why more people don't know about it."
“效果非常驚人。我不知道為什么人們對此一無所知。”
The computer programmer who can now write code for 12 hours at a time. "It helps you focus up for exceptionally long period of time."
這位電腦程序員一次可以不知疲倦地連續寫12小時的編碼。“這種藥可以幫助你長時間的集中精力。”
And a brain researcher finding connections nobody else is seeing. "It's just a clear day, the fog isn't there."
一位大腦研究人員發現了其他人都沒有注意到的聯系。“天氣非常晴朗，沒有任何迷霧。”
And they all say they owe it to this drug: provigil. It's only approved for narcolepse, sleepecnea or for people who work irregular hours. But many people are now taking it for an off-labor use to boost energy and focus. The drug, which excites the minds so much has been nicknamed "Viagra for the brain". It's quitely being used by military pilots, pro-athletes and pro-poker player. On the Internet, there're hundreds of sites evangelizing for provigil, explaining how to get your doctor to prescribe it to you, or how to get it without a prescription. In fact, there's literally one site called "buy provigil without prescribion.com".
他們都認為應該歸功于這種藥物：不夜神。用于嗜眠發作或者工作時間不規律的人群。但是現在許多人服用這種藥物用于超負荷的工作，以增加能量，集中精力。這種藥物可以刺激大腦，被稱為“大腦的偉哥”。許多軍用飛行員，職業運動員和職業撲克玩家都經常服用這種藥物。在互聯網上，數百家網站傳播這種藥物的功效，解釋如何讓醫生為你開這種處方，以及如何不需處方買到這種藥物。實際上，有一個專門的網站名字就叫“不需處方如何買到不夜神”。
Many provigil users are secretive, but not David Asprey, a successful executive who often wakes up at 4:50, pops a pill, makes breakfast for the kids. " Here you go". And also flies all over the world as VP of billion dollar Internet security firm.
許多服用不夜神的人都遮遮掩掩，守口如瓶，但是David Asprey并非如此。他是一位成功的高級管理人員，經常4:50起床，服用藥物，然后為孩子們準備早餐。作為一家價值數十億美元的互聯網安全公司的副總裁，他還經常在全世界飛來飛去。
"This can be the difference between, I'm just making it through the day to, I have like the best day in my life."
“這種藥物的效果非常好。我一整天都精力充沛，這是我一生中最好的日子。”
David says he went through 20 hours to Australia with almost no sleep, got off the plane, took a provigil, and delivered a series of speeches that were so good, they made the local paper.
David說他乘坐20小時的飛機前往澳大利亞，中途幾乎不需睡覺，然后下飛機，服用一片不夜神，然后發表了一系列優秀的講話，甚至登上了當地報紙。
As a kind of experiment, we asked David to stop taking the drug for 3 days and undergo cardiotest to measure his concentration, and reaction time. During this whole 72 hour period, he said he just felt off.
作為試驗，我們要求David暫停服用藥物三天的時間，然后測量精力集中狀況，以及反應時間。在72小時的時間內，他說覺得自己精神萎靡。
"I've noticed that my speech is very bad altered." After 3 days, I watched that he poped a provigil. "All right, so I guess, let's do it. Let's see."
“我注意到我的講話糟糕透頂。”三天之后，我觀察到他又服用了一片不夜神。“好的。讓我們開始吧。看看效果。”
It took only 17 minutes for him to snap back, the world suddenly seem to be brighter, he said. David compared it into scene in the Wizard of OZ where goes from black and white to colour.
只有17分鐘，他就恢復了精神。他說，整個世界突然光明了。David將這種情況比做綠野仙蹤中在黑白之間穿梭的場景。
And remember those cogitive tests, even we could see it on this screen a pronounced improvement over the day before which of course raises this question. Should we all be on provigil? We called doctors all over the country to ask them if there's a downside. They told us there're rare cases of people developing a life-threatening rash. But the truth is most people don't suffer any side effects.
記得那些認知測驗，我們在屏幕上也可以看到顯著的改善，當然，這也引起了一個問題。我們是否都應該服用不夜神？我們咨詢了各地的醫生，詢問這種藥物是否有副作用。他們告訴我們，沒有人出現威脅生命的癥狀。但是事實是，大部分人沒有遭遇任何副作用。
"Give me five."
“給我五瓶。”
There is however, one big fear, and it's what we don't know. There have been no studies on the long-term effects of provigil. If you need more energy, doctors say you're best bet is to get more sleep.
然而，最讓人擔憂的是，我們并不是非常了解。目前還沒有關于不夜神長期影響的研究。如果你需要更多精力，醫生表示，最好的辦法就是保障充足的睡眠。
So, why put yourself under risk when you could simply get more sleep, engage habits that are conducive for good sleep.
所以，可以通過更多睡眠來保證精力充沛，為什么要服用藥物來冒險呢？養成有益于優質睡眠的好習慣。
But our provigil users say they're gonna keep on doing it. Most of them in secret, raising a provocative question in a morden world where you don't know who are around you is geting ahead simply by poping a pill. How far are you willing to go.
但是我們的不夜神客戶表示他們會繼續服用。他們部分人是私下秘密服用的。這引發了一個挑釁性的問題，在現代社會里，你不知道周圍的人誰是通過服用藥物來提高表現的。而你又愿意做到什么程度？
Again we've seen this incredible jump in the sales of this drug, just over past 4 years. And now the drug has gone generic which means doctors say most likely we're gonna see more people buying it.
我們再次看一下過去四年里這種藥物銷量的暴漲。現在，這種藥物不受商標保護，醫生說，這意味著很有可能會有更多人購買。
Uh, does that make you more tempted having done this story?
看了這些報道之后，你有沒有覺得更心動了？
Well, look, I have done this story now for the past couple of months, and 100% yes, I was tempted, but here's why I don't want to do it. If you talk to doctors, excessively if you take the drug, you're rolling the dice, we don't know what the long-term effects are. We do know however what three things you can do to have more energy: get more sleep, eat better, do exercises. So choices that you put in the hard work, or you just pop a pill when you don't know the long term effects.
過去幾個月，我一直在報道相關的故事，當然，我100%心動了。但是我不想這樣做。如果你向醫生了解一下的話，如果你服用了這種藥物，你就是在孤注一擲，我們不知道有什么長期的副作用。然而，我們知道要精力充沛你可以做三件事：更多睡眠，更好的飲食，做運動。所以選擇權在你手中，自己努力，還是在不知道長期影響的情況下服用藥物。
Become a guinea pig and your wife's doctor she says--
成為試驗品，向妻子的醫生咨詢——
A firm no.
當然不。
No way, No way.
堅決不，不。
