Prática de Shadowing: 3 questions to help you age stronger, healthier, and happier | Dr. Brenda Lau | TEDxSurrey - Aprenda a falar inglês com o YouTube
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Transcriber: Manel Djabali Reviewer: Doris Pop I'm a doctor and a pain specialist.
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Transcriber: Manel Djabali Reviewer: Doris Pop I'm a doctor and a pain specialist.
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For over 25 years, I've worked inside the health care system, treating pain and following guidelines.
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And yet again and again, I've seen capable, motivated people lose something.
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Medicine never warned them about.
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Not the years of life.
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The years of strength.
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My mom once told me something that I'll never forget.
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She said, I'm not afraid of dying.
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I'm afraid of not being strong enough to get up from my chair, not dying, standing up.
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Moms have a way of seeing further down the road than we do.
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But that moment stopped me.
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It showed to me a blind spot in the way we think about health.
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Every day I see us put enormous energy in treating disease, and yet we rarely put strength first.
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And no, this is not a talk about fitness trends or exercise strength shows up in mobility power balance mindset.
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Science shows that building strength changes mood, energy, pain, even brain health as we age.
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For me, strength means freedom.
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The ability to live life with multiple options.
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And yet, strength quietly slips away when the muscles and bones stop receiving the signals that they need.
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Movement. Challenge. Nourishment.
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Those same routines don't work forever, and many of us weren't taught that.
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The truth is, I wasn't either.
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I learned it the hard way.
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At 47, I was told I had osteopenia lower than expected bone density.
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I remember looking at the scan.
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How could this be me?
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Weak bones. I'd been exercising for decades marathons, triathlons, yoga.
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What I didn't understand then was that my body was changing.
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And for women, shifts in hormones, especially estrogen, leads to faster loss of muscle and bone.
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I missed the signals.
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I didn't connect the dots.
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So I did what many driven people do.
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I just tried harder, more exercise, more effort.
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One short year later, I still lost bone density.
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I froze. I thought I was doing everything right, I was moving, I was active, but when this doctor didn't know what her body needed, this patient kept losing strength.
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And if someone like me inside the system could miss this, the problem wasn't effort.
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It was missing information.
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And this wasn't just my blind spot.
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For a long time, many women and clinicians were not taught how differently and early that women's bodies changed.
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Yet, we were taught that women’s fitness was more cardio and less food.
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That's when it dawned on me I wasn't failing.
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I was weakening because I was doing the wrong work for the body I had now.
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Trying harder wasn't the solution.
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Doing differently is.
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And for women especially, this is a shift in thinking we cannot afford to put off.
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I promised myself I would figure this out.
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I wasn't going to wait for another diagnosis to act.
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I relearned women's health from scratch night after night, reading studies, articles and books.
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I tested all of this science on myself.
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Let's just say for a lot of years, my clinical team heard about it a lot.
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I shared with my patients what appeared to work, and we tested these new plans slowly and carefully.
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Weakness does not have to be a normal part of aging.
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Research shows that strength responds even at a later age when you give it the right work.
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And that right work looks different for everyone, but it changes with age.
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There is no one size fits all way to build strength.
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However, from across the research and my own experience.
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Three essentials kept showing up.
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First, essential interrupt.
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Prolonged sitting.
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The conveniences of modern life are slowly working against our strength.
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Office chairs keeping us still.
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TV shows instead of nature walks.
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These aren't our personal failings.
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This is the environment we've created.
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What matters is movement throughout the day.
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Second. Essential. Challenging those muscles and bones.
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Cardio, including walking, are great for heart health, but they're often not enough to maintain muscles and bones over time.
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Safe and progressive challenge supports strength.
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Third, essential eating to build those muscles and bones, they need fuel, especially protein.
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And as we age, many of us need more than we realize, though that amount varies from person to person.
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So that's why I stopped giving people more instructions and I started offering them three questions.
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Questions that we can use every day for our own check ins.
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Here they are.
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One. Did I interrupt my sitting time today?
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Two. Did I safely challenge my muscles and bones?
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Three. Did I eat in a way that builds those muscles and bones?
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Look, those questions don't replace medical care.
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And they look different for everyone.
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But those yes stays add up.
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What matters is not giving up, asking them and getting the help along the way.
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Medical guidance, skilled health care trainers.
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People who understand pain and progressive recovery.
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Because strength isn't built perfectly.
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It's built consistently with adaptations over time.
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Once I started asking these three questions, honestly, I couldn't stop.
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I asked my friends, my family, my coworkers, my patients, even the grocery store clerks. I asked everyone.
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And the day I started answering the three questions for myself, I went downstairs to lift weights.
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My husband stared at me.
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He said, we've had this home gym for 13 years and you've just found it.
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I said, yes, and it's lovely down here.
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Now we race for the gym.
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Guess who wins.
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With my work and care teams help, my yesterdays are adding up.
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My bones are getting stronger.
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I can deadlift £225.
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But this changed what I thought was possible for me, and it definitely changed the kinds of questions I asked my patients.
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Let me tell you about Darlene.
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She was 73 when she came to the clinic.
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With back pain and a lot of self doubt.
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She cried. I'm so scared.
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No one knows what to do.
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I held her hand. Don't give up.
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We'll find a way.
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We started with a simple strength plan that she could do at home.
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And over time, with guidance and patience and adjustments, we supported her movement.
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Gradual strength work.
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The nourishment and all that pain care.
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It wasn't easy at first, but she stuck with it.
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and seven months later she walked in with a new confidence, smiling from ear to ear.
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She taking her training routines at me and showing me all her progress.
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I was so happy for her.
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That was her path with careful medical guidance.
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But Darlene's success pointed to something much greater.
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When the goal of getting stronger is supported, people often regain every day choices hope and joy.
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Now imagine these different paths forward where strength is a part of treatment conversations where we ask these three questions repeatedly because the answers change with age, where we accept that the work can be uncomfortable, even messy, but yet still worth doing.
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Strength is not about chasing youth.
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It is about protecting our future choices.
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Strength is one part of our health that we can actively build ourselves.
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Strength, response to nourishment.
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A response to challenge.
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Strength responds when we choose movement over sitting still.
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I see strength as freedom, and freedom is built one deliberate choice at a time.
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Thank you.
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Por que praticar a fala com este vídeo?
O vídeo “3 perguntas para ajudar você a envelhecer mais forte, saudável e feliz” apresenta insights valiosos do Dr. Brenda Lau sobre a importância da força e do movimento ao longo da vida. Praticar a fala com este vídeo é uma excelente maneira de melhorar suas habilidades em inglês, especialmente se você se engajar em shadowing, uma técnica onde você repete o que ouve, simultaneamente, imitando a entonação e o ritmo do falante. Isso não apenas ajuda na fluência, mas também na compreensão das nuances da língua. Ao tentar entender e replicar as ideias do Dr. Lau, você amplia seu vocabulário e melhora a pronúncia em inglês.
Gramática & Expressões em Contexto
No discurso do Dr. Lau, várias estruturas gramaticais e expressões são proeminentes. Aqui estão algumas delas:
- Phrasal Verbs: Frases como "put off" demonstram como verbos compostos são utilizados na fala cotidiana e são cruciais para a fluência.
- Condições: O uso de "if" em situações hipotéticas ressalta a importância de expressões condicionais na comunicação em inglês.
- Tempo verbal: A combinação de passado e presente, como em "had osteopenia", ilustra como relatar experiências passadas pode enriquecer seu discurso.
- Vocabulário técnico: Palavras como "osteopenia" e "densidade óssea" são essenciais na discussão sobre saúde e são úteis para expandir seu leque vocabular.
Essas estruturas são particularmente importantes para praticantes de shadowing, pois ajudam a contextualizar o aprendizado e a melhorar a pronúncia em inglês.
Armadilhas Comuns de Pronúncia
Durante o vídeo, algumas palavras e expressões podem apresentar dificuldades especiais na pronúncia. Aqui estão algumas delas:
- “Mobility”: A ênfase nas sílabas pode ser difícil; pratique a divisão em silabas: mo-bi-li-ty.
- “Osteopenia”: Cuidado ao pronunciar este termo técnico; o som de “oste” pode ser complicado. Pratique a palavra lentamente.
- “Strength”: Essa palavra pode ser desafiadora devido à combinação de sons; enfatize o "str" e o "ng" para evitar confusões.
Utilize técnicas de shadow speech para aperfeiçoar sua pronúncia. Ouvir e repetir permitirá que você internalize a correta articulação desses termos. Incentivamos o uso de shadowing em inglês para facilitar a identificação e correção de erros de pronúncia.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.
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