美国国家公共电台 NPR Skeptics Question The Value Of Hydration Therapy For The Healthy

Skeptics Question The Value Of Hydration Therapy For The Healthy 

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Let's hear about the promise of warding² off illness and getting more energy with an injection of water and vitamins straight into your bloodstream. It's the trendy thing to do among some celebrities³. Tanya English of WHYY's health show, "The Pulse," checked it out.

TAUNYA ENGLISH, BYLINE⁴: There are infusion⁵ spas with names like Hangover Heaven or the Remedy Room. In New Orleans, Las Vegas, even Ibiza, Spain, those businesses cater⁶ to tourists who party hard.

JASON HARTMAN: So you saw the waiting room, obviously.

ENGLISH: Here in Philadelphia at a shop called RestoreIV, Dr. Jason Hartman sees a lot of overworked business.

HARTMAN: We are bigger, better, faster culture. I want to be a better me. You want to be a better you. And I think this trend reflects that.

ENGLISH: RestoreIV offers clients high-dose vitamins with a needle and an IV bag to help you detox or boost your immunity⁷ or just turn up your glow. Hartman says the basic cocktail⁸ includes vitamin C, zinc⁹, B vitamins. And if you have a headache, the doctor might add a little magnesium¹⁰.

HARTMAN: In chronic¹¹ diseases, these things can be depleted¹² with, you know, just a stressful lifestyle. And if they become deficient¹³ enough, it alters your internal pharmacology enough to possibly manifest as a symptom or a disease.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: All right, so I'm going to put a tourniquet¹⁴ on. We'll make sure you have a good vein¹⁵.

ENGLISH: One longtime patient is a Philadelphia attorney with two kids and an exhausting travel schedule. When she wants to prevent a cold, Yana Shapiro comes in for the drip called immunity protection.

YANA SHAPIRO: Anything to avoid (laughter) antibiotics¹⁶...

ENGLISH: Or being out of commission?

SHAPIRO: ...Or being out of commission, absolutely.

ENGLISH: For 15 minutes, Shapiro gets to just sit back in a big, comfy chair.

SHAPIRO: I take this time as me time to relax and, you know, kick back and close my eyes for a couple of minutes.

ENGLISH: IV treatments cost from 150 to 200 dollars. And at RestoreIV, everyone pays the doctor's office directly. The treatments are not generally covered by insurance. But if you mostly eat your kale and you're quinoa, why would you need a boost of vitamins delivered straight to your bloodstream? More traditional doctors say you probably don't. A healthy gut¹⁷ takes in the nutrients¹⁸ we need. Ather Ali is a doctor at Yale University. If IV infusion makes people feel better, he suspects it's a placebo¹⁹ effect.

ATHER ALI: When your child falls and scrapes their knees and you give them a kiss, there's value in that.

ENGLISH: Ali and his colleagues tested a well-known IV vitamin treatment on 30 people with fibromyalgia. Half the study participants got IV vitamins. The other half got a saline solution without vitamins.

ALI: The interesting finding was that everyone got better.

ENGLISH: People reported less pain and said they were better able to do the things they needed to do every day. Ali says, if a treatment is helping²⁰ someone, that may be reason to use it, even if the fix is a placebo. But he says if people just want to feel better...

ALI: Go exercise for 30 minutes, and you'll probably get more out of that.

ENGLISH: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not regulate or approve vitamin drips, so cautious doctors say know the risk before the needle goes in. For NPR News, I'm Taunya English in Philadelphia.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 warding   

监护，守护（ward的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• Magina channels a powerful warding magic damping the negative effects of spells. 敌法师用守护魔法来抵御负面法术的攻击。
• Indeed, warding off disruption is the principal property of complex systems. 的确，避免破损解体是复杂系统主要的属性。

3 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 infusion   

n.灌输

参考例句：

• Old families need an infusion of new blood from time to time.古老的家族需要不时地注入新鲜血液。
• Careful observation of the infusion site is necessary.必须仔细观察输液部位。

6 cater   

vi.(for/to)满足，迎合；(for)提供饮食及服务

参考例句：

• I expect he will be able to cater for your particular needs.我预计他能满足你的特殊需要。
• Most schools cater for children of different abilities.大多数学校能够满足具有不同天资的儿童的需要。

7 immunity   

n.优惠；免除；豁免，豁免权

参考例句：

• The law gives public schools immunity from taxation.法律免除公立学校的纳税义务。
• He claims diplomatic immunity to avoid being arrested.他要求外交豁免以便避免被捕。

8 cocktail   

n.鸡尾酒；餐前开胃小吃；混合物

参考例句：

• We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
• At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上，人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。

9 zinc   

n.锌；vt.在...上镀锌

参考例句：

• Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc.黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。
• Zinc is used to protect other metals from corrosion.锌被用来保护其他金属不受腐蚀。

10 magnesium   

n.镁

参考例句：

• Magnesium is the nutrient element in plant growth.镁是植物生长的营养要素。
• The water contains high amounts of magnesium.这水含有大量的镁。

11 chronic   

adj.(疾病)长期未愈的，慢性的；极坏的

参考例句：

• Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
• Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。

12 depleted   

adj. 枯竭的, 废弃的 动词deplete的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• Food supplies were severely depleted. 食物供应已严重不足。
• Both teams were severely depleted by injuries. 两个队都因队员受伤而实力大减。

13 deficient   

adj.不足的，不充份的，有缺陷的

参考例句：

• The crops are suffering from deficient rain.庄稼因雨量不足而遭受损害。
• I always have been deficient in selfconfidence and decision.我向来缺乏自信和果断。

14 tourniquet   

n.止血器，绞压器，驱血带

参考例句：

• Twist the tourniquet tighter.把止血带扎紧点。
• The tourniquet should occlude venous and lymphatic return.止血带应阻断静脉及淋巴回流。

15 vein   

n.血管，静脉；叶脉，纹理；情绪；vt.使成脉络

参考例句：

• The girl is not in the vein for singing today.那女孩今天没有心情唱歌。
• The doctor injects glucose into the patient's vein.医生把葡萄糖注射入病人的静脉。

16 antibiotics   

n.（用作复数）抗生素；（用作单数）抗生物质的研究；抗生素，抗菌素( antibiotic的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• the discovery of antibiotics in the 20th century 20世纪抗生素的发现
• The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. 医生给我开了抗生素。

17 gut   

n.[pl.]胆量；内脏；adj.本能的；vt.取出内脏

参考例句：

• It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.冷冻鱼之前并不总是需要先把内脏掏空。
• My immediate gut feeling was to refuse.我本能的直接反应是拒绝。

18 nutrients   

n.（食品或化学品）营养物，营养品( nutrient的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a lack of essential nutrients 基本营养的缺乏
• Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream. 营养素被吸收进血液。 来自《简明英汉词典》

19 placebo   

n.安慰剂；宽慰话

参考例句：

• The placebo has been found to work with a lot of different cases.人们已发现安慰剂能在很多不同的病例中发挥作用。
• The placebo effect refers to all the observable behaviors caused by placebo.安慰剂效应是指由安慰剂所引起的可观察的行为。

20 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。