Because it was in the 1950's or so, maybe the late 1940's, that people started to discover lithium, even though it had no natural function, it did do something in our bodies.

因为在二十世纪五十年代左右，可能是四十年代末期，人们开始发现锂，尽管不参与人体的正常生理活动，但是它确实会对我们的身体产生影响。

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Typically, we're distracted from thinking about them by the distractions provided by the body-- the desire for food, drink, sex, what have you, sleep.

通常我们对这些东西的思考,被身体的一些需求打乱了,比如对食物,饮料,性,睡眠的欲望

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It has to be complex, because we're asking the immune system to be able to respond to every potential foreign pathogen that we come into contact with.

免疫系统是十分复杂的,因为我们需要免疫系统,能够对我们身体接触到的,任何潜在的外来病原体进行反应

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But we also extend that to my body and my brain.

但我们对自己身体和大脑的表述,却也是如此

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Getting back to the concept that there are good and bad fats, if we look at the left hand side here, is a table or a graphic showing the fats that tend to have beneficial impacts on health.

回到之前的观点,脂肪有坏有好,看向左边,这是个表格或者说图表,上面展示了对我们身体有益的脂肪

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Now,we are familiar with some low-level examples of bodies splitting.

我们对很多低级的身体分裂很熟悉。

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What we'll--later in the course we'll talk about how much of your body has been influenced by corn; how much of your diet is influenced by corn; how many products you touch in a given day have been derived in some way from corn.

我们会在以后的课堂上讲到,玉米对你身体有多少影响,玉米对你的日常饮食又有多少影响,一天之内你接触到的产品,有多少是由玉米加工而来的

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As time goes on, we've developed ever more complex machines to study people and we've talked about some of these already: EKG machines, so an example of an electrical device that can be used to monitor a very elaborate function deep inside your body, the beating of your heart and the rhythm of your heart.

如今,我们已经有功能更加复杂的设备,来研究人类,比如之前说到的心电图,我们使用电子装置,对身体内部机能进行精确地监控,具体到心电图就是心跳和心率

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