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It's northern and in the winter you never see sunshine and in the summer you never see dark
这里很靠北，冬天整天都没太阳，而夏天则没黑夜
I mean this is the crazy, schizophrenic place
这是一个让人发疯的地方
And yet you know what, the rates of depression are unbelievably low there
但是这里的实际抑郁症发病率却很低
Not only regular depression but
不仅是常规抑郁症
seasonal affective disorder which is what you get when it's really dark out postpartum depression
还包括季节性情绪失调、产后抑郁症
bipolar depression, so on and so forth
双相抑郁症等等
and much lower than other parts of Europe
这里比欧洲其它地方都低
and certainly lower than their sister country Finland where everybody's jumping off bridges
也比兄弟国度芬兰低，芬兰到处有人跳桥
So it really is quite amazing
这非常让人惊奇
And this is one of the researchers who are studying this
这是研究这些问题的一位学者
His name is Johann Axelsson and he calls that Iceland's depression paradox
他叫Johann Axelsson，他称这个现象为“冰岛抑郁悖论”
And actually I took this picture with him and his wife Enggar
这张照片中是我同他们夫妇俩
at 11 at night in the summer. In Iceland, you see it still light up
当时是夏季晚上11点，天还是亮的
The nightclubs there all have to put these dark curtains on all the windows
那里的夜店通常会遮一层黑色幕布
because it's bright out and they're trying pretend like it's dark
外面太亮，他们要假装外面是黑夜
So at first Johann Axelsson thought that
一开始 Axelsson认为
the secret to all of this low rates of depression and to health in general
冰岛低抑郁症及好健康状况的秘密
had to do with those omega-3 fats that you guys heard about the other day
在于ω-3脂肪，前些天应该有人讲过
because Icelanders eat more fish per capita than anywhere else in the world even more than the Japanese. It's quite amazing
冰岛人吃鱼是世界上最多的，甚至多过日本人，这很妙
And so he thought this makes sense
于是他认为这是关键
We know that omega-3 fats are good for the heart, good for the brain, good for the nervous system
我们知道 ω-3脂肪利于心脏，利于大脑及神经系统
Everybody's just drunk on fish and that's really why they're all living so long
大量吃鱼应该就是冰岛人长寿的原因
