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Can a Pill Help You Succeed?
聪明药真能让人精力充沛?
We want to take you into a kind of secret society, a hidden edge dicovered by some very successful Americans. We discovered sales of a little pill are not just booming. We have traced a 74% increaingly sales in 4 years. So, what is it? Does it work? And what is the risk? Here's ABC Stan Harris.
我们要带大家进入一个神秘的世界，一些非常成功的美国人发现的隐藏的优势。我们发现一种药片的销量非常火爆。4年的时间里，我们发现销量增加了74%。那么，这种药是什么呢？有没有效果呢？其存在的风险是什么？ABC记者Stan Harris带我们了解。
They're all around us. A secret society of the successful. The lobbyist, she wakes at 5 for two full workout before work.
我们周围到处都是这种人。成功人士组成的神秘世界。这是一位说客，她早上五点钟起床，开始工作前先进行了两次全面的锻炼。
"It's amazing, I just don't get why more people don't know about it."
“效果非常惊人。我不知道为什么人们对此一无所知。”
The computer programmer who can now write code for 12 hours at a time. "It helps you focus up for exceptionally long period of time."
这位电脑程序员一次可以不知疲倦地连续写12小时的编码。“这种药可以帮助你长时间的集中精力。”
And a brain researcher finding connections nobody else is seeing. "It's just a clear day, the fog isn't there."
一位大脑研究人员发现了其他人都没有注意到的联系。“天气非常晴朗，没有任何迷雾。”
And they all say they owe it to this drug: provigil. It's only approved for narcolepse, sleepecnea or for people who work irregular hours. But many people are now taking it for an off-labor use to boost energy and focus. The drug, which excites the minds so much has been nicknamed "Viagra for the brain". It's quitely being used by military pilots, pro-athletes and pro-poker player. On the Internet, there're hundreds of sites evangelizing for provigil, explaining how to get your doctor to prescribe it to you, or how to get it without a prescription. In fact, there's literally one site called "buy provigil without prescribion.com".
他们都认为应该归功于这种药物：不夜神。用于嗜眠发作或者工作时间不规律的人群。但是现在许多人服用这种药物用于超负荷的工作，以增加能量，集中精力。这种药物可以刺激大脑，被称为“大脑的伟哥”。许多军用飞行员，职业运动员和职业扑克玩家都经常服用这种药物。在互联网上，数百家网站传播这种药物的功效，解释如何让医生为你开这种处方，以及如何不需处方买到这种药物。实际上，有一个专门的网站名字就叫“不需处方如何买到不夜神”。
Many provigil users are secretive, but not David Asprey, a successful executive who often wakes up at 4:50, pops a pill, makes breakfast for the kids. " Here you go". And also flies all over the world as VP of billion dollar Internet security firm.
许多服用不夜神的人都遮遮掩掩，守口如瓶，但是David Asprey并非如此。他是一位成功的高级管理人员，经常4:50起床，服用药物，然后为孩子们准备早餐。作为一家价值数十亿美元的互联网安全公司的副总裁，他还经常在全世界飞来飞去。
"This can be the difference between, I'm just making it through the day to, I have like the best day in my life."
“这种药物的效果非常好。我一整天都精力充沛，这是我一生中最好的日子。”
David says he went through 20 hours to Australia with almost no sleep, got off the plane, took a provigil, and delivered a series of speeches that were so good, they made the local paper.
David说他乘坐20小时的飞机前往澳大利亚，中途几乎不需睡觉，然后下飞机，服用一片不夜神，然后发表了一系列优秀的讲话，甚至登上了当地报纸。
As a kind of experiment, we asked David to stop taking the drug for 3 days and undergo cardiotest to measure his concentration, and reaction time. During this whole 72 hour period, he said he just felt off.
作为试验，我们要求David暂停服用药物三天的时间，然后测量精力集中状况，以及反应时间。在72小时的时间内，他说觉得自己精神萎靡。
"I've noticed that my speech is very bad altered." After 3 days, I watched that he poped a provigil. "All right, so I guess, let's do it. Let's see."
“我注意到我的讲话糟糕透顶。”三天之后，我观察到他又服用了一片不夜神。“好的。让我们开始吧。看看效果。”
It took only 17 minutes for him to snap back, the world suddenly seem to be brighter, he said. David compared it into scene in the Wizard of OZ where goes from black and white to colour.
只有17分钟，他就恢复了精神。他说，整个世界突然光明了。David将这种情况比做绿野仙踪中在黑白之间穿梭的场景。
And remember those cogitive tests, even we could see it on this screen a pronounced improvement over the day before which of course raises this question. Should we all be on provigil? We called doctors all over the country to ask them if there's a downside. They told us there're rare cases of people developing a life-threatening rash. But the truth is most people don't suffer any side effects.
记得那些认知测验，我们在屏幕上也可以看到显著的改善，当然，这也引起了一个问题。我们是否都应该服用不夜神？我们咨询了各地的医生，询问这种药物是否有副作用。他们告诉我们，没有人出现威胁生命的症状。但是事实是，大部分人没有遭遇任何副作用。
"Give me five."
“给我五瓶。”
There is however, one big fear, and it's what we don't know. There have been no studies on the long-term effects of provigil. If you need more energy, doctors say you're best bet is to get more sleep.
然而，最让人担忧的是，我们并不是非常了解。目前还没有关于不夜神长期影响的研究。如果你需要更多精力，医生表示，最好的办法就是保障充足的睡眠。
So, why put yourself under risk when you could simply get more sleep, engage habits that are conducive for good sleep.
所以，可以通过更多睡眠来保证精力充沛，为什么要服用药物来冒险呢？养成有益于优质睡眠的好习惯。
But our provigil users say they're gonna keep on doing it. Most of them in secret, raising a provocative question in a morden world where you don't know who are around you is geting ahead simply by poping a pill. How far are you willing to go.
但是我们的不夜神客户表示他们会继续服用。他们部分人是私下秘密服用的。这引发了一个挑衅性的问题，在现代社会里，你不知道周围的人谁是通过服用药物来提高表现的。而你又愿意做到什么程度？
Again we've seen this incredible jump in the sales of this drug, just over past 4 years. And now the drug has gone generic which means doctors say most likely we're gonna see more people buying it.
我们再次看一下过去四年里这种药物销量的暴涨。现在，这种药物不受商标保护，医生说，这意味着很有可能会有更多人购买。
Uh, does that make you more tempted having done this story?
看了这些报道之后，你有没有觉得更心动了？
Well, look, I have done this story now for the past couple of months, and 100% yes, I was tempted, but here's why I don't want to do it. If you talk to doctors, excessively if you take the drug, you're rolling the dice, we don't know what the long-term effects are. We do know however what three things you can do to have more energy: get more sleep, eat better, do exercises. So choices that you put in the hard work, or you just pop a pill when you don't know the long term effects.
过去几个月，我一直在报道相关的故事，当然，我100%心动了。但是我不想这样做。如果你向医生了解一下的话，如果你服用了这种药物，你就是在孤注一掷，我们不知道有什么长期的副作用。然而，我们知道要精力充沛你可以做三件事：更多睡眠，更好的饮食，做运动。所以选择权在你手中，自己努力，还是在不知道长期影响的情况下服用药物。
Become a guinea pig and your wife's doctor she says--
成为试验品，向妻子的医生咨询——
A firm no.
当然不。
No way, No way.
坚决不，不。
