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You know, every year about 1.7 million people in the United States suffer a traumatic brain injury. I see it every day in my line of work. 
美國每年約有一百七十萬人遭受頭部外傷。我在這一行裡，每天都會看到這樣的病患。

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And in severe cases, there is no drug, there is no pill, there's really no intervention that can truly help once the damage sets in.
在嚴重的案例中，損害一旦造成，就沒有任何藥物、藥丸或者治療方式能夠真正產生幫助。

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But I'm about to tell you a story about two dramatic cases of crippling brain damage that may have, 
不過，我即將要告訴各位一個故事，當中有兩件非常戲劇性的嚴重腦傷案例，

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in fact, been reversed by a change in nutrition, something so simple again and it's hard to believe -- fish oil.
可能因為營養攝取上的改變而實際上得以逆轉，而且這樣東西也簡單得令人難以置信——魚油。

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Bobby Ghassemi's story begins almost three years ago, with a phone call.
巴比‧格希米的故事始於將近三年前的一通電話。

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Toughest call that any parents can get.
這是任何父母接到最難受的電話。

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''It's about your son. There has been an accident. Come quick."
「是你的兒子，出車禍了，趕快來。」

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Bobby's car had careened off a dark and winding road. Paramedics assess the wreckage and Bobby.
巴比的車在一條陰暗彎曲的道路上蛇行衝出路面外。醫護人員評估了車輛殘骸與巴比的狀況。

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When I'm looking at the reports, they report a Glasgow Coma score of three. A brick or a piece of wood has a Glasgow Coma score of three. 
我看著報告，裡面指出葛式昏迷指數為三。一塊磚頭或一片木材的葛式昏迷指數就是三。

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It's dead. And somehow, the paramedics miraculously managed to revive this kid.
他的腦部已經死亡了。醫護人員不曉得怎麼奇蹟似地救回了這孩子一命。

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There had been so much bleeding within the brain, his skull could not contain the swelling. Every part of his brain was affected. 
他的腦內大量出血，頭骨容納不了腫脹。他腦部的每個部位都受到了影響。

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But Peter and Marjan Ghassemi shrugged off the horror of their situation to fight.
不過，彼得與瑪姜‧格希米不屈服於他們遇到的這種可怕狀況，全力奮鬥。

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Little did they know that that fight would link them to the sole survivor of an infamous mining disaster.
他們完全不曉得這場奮鬥會使他們與一場重大礦災的唯一倖存者產生關聯。

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A few years before Bobby's car barreled off that road, 13 miners huddled together after an explosion as deadly carbon monoxide crept into the airspace around them. 
在巴比的車子衝出道路的幾年前，十三名礦工在一場爆炸之後蜷縮在一起，致命的一氧化碳逐漸滲入他們周遭的空間。

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Forty-one hours later...
四十一個鐘頭之後……

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The only confirmed survivor is Randal L. McCloy, Jr.
唯一證實的倖存者是小蘭道‧麥克羅伊。

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Dr. Julian Bailes was Randy McCloy's neurosurgeon. McCloy's body somehow recovered. 
朱利安‧貝爾斯醫師是蘭迪‧麥克羅伊的神經外科醫生。麥克羅伊的身體終究復原了。

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The question was, could his brain do the same?
問題是，他的大腦也可能如此嗎？

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Bailes was concocting an unorthodox plan to try and save Randy McCloy's brain -- high doses of omega-3 fatty acids, fish oil.
貝爾斯想出了一項不尋常的計畫，試圖挽救蘭迪‧麥克羅伊的大腦，——高劑量的奧米加三脂肪酸，也就是魚油。

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So the concept was then trying to rebuild his brain with what he was made from when he was an embryo in his mother's womb.
我們的構想是設法重建他的大腦，採用當初他在母親子宮裡構成他這個胚胎的物質。

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If you have a brick wall and it gets damaged, would you want to use bricks to repair the wall? And omega-3 fatty acids are literally the bricks of the cell wall in the brain.
要是有一面磚牆壞了，你會不會想要用磚塊修補那面牆？奧米加三脂肪酸實際上就是大腦中建構細胞壁的磚塊。

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During a traumatic brain injury, the brain swells and nerve cells stop communicating and die. 
在頭部外傷期間，大腦會出現腫脹，於是神經細胞停止傳遞訊息並死亡。

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Omega-3 fatty acids, the theory goes, can rebuild damaged nerve cells, reduce inflammation, keep those brain cells from dying.
理論指出，奧米加三脂肪酸能夠重建受損的神經細胞，減少發炎，避免大腦細胞死亡。

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The problem? Few human studies had proven this theory.
問題是，沒什麼人體研究證實這個理論。

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Dr. Michael Lewis, a former Army colonel and omega-3 researcher, believes fish oil could be the missing link.
前陸軍上校暨奧米加三研究員麥可‧路易斯醫師相信，魚油可能是其中欠缺的那個環節。

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After Bobby's accident, he got a desperate call from Peter Ghassemi, and after some explaining, asked him...
在巴比發生車禍之後，他接到彼得‧格希米打來的一通絕望迫切的電話。經過一番說明之後，他問對方……

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What do you think about the idea of using high dose fish oil like Julian Bailes used with Randy McCloy?
你想不想採用朱利安‧貝爾斯醫師讓蘭迪‧麥克羅伊攝取高劑量魚油的那種方式？

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The carbon monoxide level was really high I had no explanation of how I escaped it.
當時一氧化碳的濃度真的很高，我無法說明我是怎麼逃過一劫的。

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But McCloy, whose remarkable recovery is well-known, was just one case, and it remains unclear whether omega-3 was truly the key.
不過，麥克羅伊驚人的復原案例雖然廣為人知，畢竟只是一個案例，而且仍然不清楚奧米加三是否真的是關鍵。

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The next hurdle for Ghassemi? Convincing Bobby's doctors.
格希米面對的下一道障礙是什麼？說服巴比的醫生。

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It was a fight. They didn't believe. 
我們極力爭取。他們不相信這種做法會有效果。

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And they said, fine, the West Virginia miner was one case. I need a thousand case[s] to be proven for me before I can give this to your son.
他們說，沒錯，西維吉尼亞州那個礦工的確是一個案例，但我需要看到一千個案例的證明之後，才能給你兒子使用。

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He literally had to lay down in the middle of the floor and throw a tantrum until they started to put it down his child's feeding tube.
他還真的必須躺在地板上吵大鬧，直到他們開始將魚油注入他孩子的餵食管。

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The tantrum worked. 
大吵大鬧奏效了。

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And two weeks after starting his fish oil regimen, Bobby Ghassemi, case study number two, began to emerge from his coma.
在開始服用魚油這個療法之後過了兩週，個案研究第二號巴比‧格希米，就逐漸從昏迷當中甦醒過來。

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About two months after that, he attended his high school graduation.
在那大約兩個月之後，他出席了中學畢業典禮。

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They all stood up and were screaming and cheering my name. I took my graduation cap off, and waved it around.
他們全都站了起來，尖叫歡呼著我的名字。我摘下我的畢業帽，對著所有人揮舞。

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The common denominators for Ghassemi and McCloy, devastating brain injuries and then omega-3 fish oil.
格希米與麥克羅伊共同的特點：嚴重的腦部損傷以及奧米加三魚油。

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But did the omega-3 hasten their recovery? For now, we do not know.
但是，奧米加三加快了他們的復原速度嗎？就目前而言，我們並不知道。

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I absolutely believe that it made a huge difference in Bobby's recovery. And this is pure speculation. 
我絕對相信魚油對巴比的復原造成了重大影響，但這純粹只是臆測。

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He never would have come out of a coma if it hadn't been for the use of omega-3s to allow that natural healing process to occur.
要不是奧米加三的功效促使自然痊癒進程發生，他可能永遠都不會從昏迷中甦醒過來。