尽管咖啡的名声不好，但它实际上是一种药用的食物。

Although coffee gets a bad rap, it's actually a medicinal food.

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早在有文字记载之前，人们就知道某些特定的草药配合添加物可以有药用的价值。

As far back as recorded history goes, humans have known that certain plants and extracts have medicinal value.

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他对大蒜的药用功效深信不疑。

He also had an invincible faith in the medicinal virtues of garlic.

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It turns out that there's lots of proteins that have value as therapeutics and there's a list of them here and some of them you'll recognize.

我们已经发现很多有药用价值的蛋白质,这里有一张相关列表,其中一些你能认出来

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I just wanted to point out that although you see these chlorine atoms in these drugs, in fact, I don't think I've ever seen an acid chloride in a final pharmaceutical product or drug that we take, and the reason is because they're so reactive that you wouldn't want to have that in something you digest.

我只是想指出一点,那就是尽管你在这些药物中看到了氯原子，实际上，我想我从来都没有在一个,成品的药用产品或者药物中见到过酰氯，这原因是因为它们太容易反应了,你不会想让它们出现在你要消化的东西中。

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