Name: 如果老化只是心境？ (What if age is just a state of mind? | Bruce Grierson | TEDxPSU)
Uploaded: 2018-11-24T22:37:10.000Z
Duration: 9 min 13 s

Translator: Emma Gon Reviewer: Elisabeth Buffard

This is Olga Kotelko, pride of West Vancouver, Canada

正躍過加州大學洛杉磯分校的跳遠沙池。

what's in the water up there in West Vancouver?

西溫哥華的水都含有什麽東東啊？

Or maybe what's in the genes of Olga Kotelko?

也可能會問 歐佳 的基因有什麽特別嗎？

Olga, I should tell you, took up track and field

at the age 77, so here she's just rounding into form.

She competed in 11 events including high-jump

所以這裏看到的是她運動生涯成熟的時刻。

and 100 meter-dash and she was well on her way at this point

她參加過11項賽事，包括跳高、

to becoming the most decorated masters athlete ever

with more than 50 world records in her age categories.

並且正處於成爲史上 最爲多成就的大師級運動員的道路上，

And she and I were well into a pretty intensive investigation

在她的年齡組別，締造50多項世界紀錄

那時她和我一起做了一項 頗爲深入的研究：

And by run, I mean tick. Run like a watch

歐嘉能如此運轉的原因是什麽。

that's running more slowly  than other watches.

這裏說的“運轉”，我是指象鐘表那樣的運轉，

Now, Olga visited  a lot of labs for this project

and she had a lot of  testing done on herself.

爲了這項目，歐嘉可到過很多所實驗室，

at least 30 years younger  than her chronological age.

她都比自己的實際年齡年輕30歲。

If you ask scientists, 'What slows aging?'

You'll get answers like eating better and eating less,

managing chronic stress, getting enough sleep,

處理好長期壓力、睡眠要充足，

but then so do a lot of people  and they're not Olga.

所以，她的秘密元素是什麽呢？

a sort of strange theory started  to push to the front of my mind.

What if Olga is not becoming  a wizened little old lady

隨著歐嘉和我一起在路上的時間越多，

at the expected rate,  because she had decided not to?

We've been paying very closed attention  to her from the neck down,

我的腦海裏浮現出 這樣一個奇特的理論。

but what if the real story  or an appreciable part of the story

要是歐嘉之所以沒 如期變成乾癟小老太太

我們對她的研究一直集中在 脖子以下的部分，

because she was almost two people in one.

要是真正的原因， 或者不可忽視的一大部分原因

"Thrilled to see you.  Can you stay for a visit?

我把歐嘉稱爲 “勇士加淑士”，

Your timing is excellent,  because I just made way too much pie."

不在運動場上的時候，她是你的歐嘉奶奶。

“啊，你來啦，真開心。 能多坐會嗎？

來的正巧，我剛做了太多餡餅了。”

which actually turns out to be a great thing healthwise.

這恰恰又是對健康非常有益的事情。

Nothing existed for her except  the results she was visualizing,

而一到田徑場上呢，她就馬上換擋了。

好像什麽都不存在了，衹看到眼中的目標，

"Well, because Olga, after a certain point

“因爲，歐嘉， 到了一定年齡之後，

When that's the lens that  you're looking at the world through,

It turns out the stories  we tell ourselves

如果你是用她那樣的鏡頭去看世界的話，

And even the way  we think about aging itself matters.

Becca Livy here,  a psychologist at Yale,

結果是什麽呢，就是我們對自己所說的

analyzed data from  hundreds of American seniors,

關於自己的故事是一個非常重要的因素。

甚至自己對衰老的想法 也是一個非常重要的因素。

貝卡拉維 耶魯大學的心理學家，

the ones who'd kindo of drunk  the cultural Kool-aid,

分析了美國幾百位老人的數據，

who believed the messages  coming out on their TV sets

that youth reigns supreme  and beyond 75 or so,

those people tended  to become weak and frail

那些凡是從電視機上說的都照單全收的，

相信衹有青春才是王道，而過了75歲

Whereas those who had  a more positive view of aging,

who thought that growing old  is nothing to fear

持此念者通常變無力、脆弱的速度

those people lived 7.5 years  longer on average

相反，那些對衰老持有比較正面的觀點的人，

than the ones who kind of  rued their lost youth.

Now, over at Harvard,  psychologist Ellen Langer

持此念者的壽命平均長了7.5年 ----

----- 相對於那些憂怨青春不再的人來説。

A youth prime is anything  that makes you feel young.

我們又看看哈佛大學心理學家 艾倫·蘭格說的，

And what Ellen found is that  people exposed to youth primes

-- and hang with me on this because it's mind-blowing --

people exposed to  youth primes scored better

青春提示就是一種 會讓你感覺年輕的東西。

on a whole host of physiological measures.

艾倫發現，那些多青春提示的人

Their vision improved,  their hearing improved.

---- 請各位聽好，這概念甚是出人意料 -----

Things like grip strength  and working memory improved.