跟讀練習: Ozempic Explained Like You're 5 - 通過影片學習英語口語
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This is Ozempic, the drug that can make people lose this much weight with just one injection a week.
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But how does it actually work?
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Is it truly safe?
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And what happens when people stop taking it?
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To answer these questions, we first need to understand why losing weight is so difficult.
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The world has a fat problem, a massive, global, decades -long problem.
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More than a billion adults are now classified as obese, a number that has tripled since 1975.
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So the solution should be simple, right?
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Eat less?
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Move more?
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Problem solved?
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No. Because the moment you start eating less, your body says, we are under attack.
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Release the hunger.
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Your metabolism slows down.
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Your body starts treating every calorie like it's the last helicopter out of Saigon.
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Which is why so many people lose weight and then gain it all back.
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For decades, scientists knew the body was fighting back.
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They just couldn't figure out how to turn that signal off.
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Then the answer came from the last place anyone expected.
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A lizard.
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Introducing Dr. John Eng.
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Eng was an endocrinologist, a doctor who treats hormone -related problems in the body at a VA hospital in the Bronx with a very unusual interest.
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Venom.
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More specifically, the venom of the Gila monster.
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A large, slow, deeply unfortunate -looking lizard from the American Southwest that looks like it was assembled from leftover parts.
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John.
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What are you doing?
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This thing barely eats.
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Sometimes only a few times a year.
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And yet, somehow, its body stays stable.
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Maybe that is just what it does.
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Ain't no way.
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Something in that saliva is keeping it alive.
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So Eng studies the lizard's venom.
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And inside it, he finds something remarkable.
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A compound that behaves a lot like a human hormone called GLP -1.
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Now GLP -1 is basically the body's meal signal.
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You eat.
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Your gut sends a message to your brain.
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Food arrived.
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You can stop eating now.
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Then it sends another message to your pancreas.
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Sugar incoming.
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Release insulin.
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When that signal works properly, the body handles food without much drama.
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When it does not, everything starts getting messier.
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Appetite?
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Insulin response?
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Blood sugar?
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Weight?
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The whole system begins slipping out of balance.
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And Eng realizes something huge.
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What if you could replace that failing signal?
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That idea eventually leads to the first GLP -1 drug.
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For the first time, medicine is not just treating the consequences of metabolic disease.
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It is trying to restore one of the signals behind it.
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But there is one problem.
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The drug is clunky.
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Patients need to inject it twice a day.
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The effect fades quickly, so most of the world shrugs and moves on.
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Except for one company watching from Denmark.
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They look at the same drug everyone else dismisses and see something different.
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Introducing Novo Nordisk.
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They are a Danish company that has spent 50 years as the backbone of diabetic care.
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Insulin is their main solution.
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But it has limits.
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Insulin helps manage blood sugar and keep patients alive.
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Yet it does not fix the deeper signaling problem underneath where GLP -1 might.
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So Novo sets itself a brutal goal.
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Let's make it last for a week.
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That is the target.
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The molecule dissolves in minutes.
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Two minutes.
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How do you build a weekly drug out of something that dissolves quickly?
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That is the job.
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And this is where the nightmare begins.
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The moment natural GLP -1 enters the bloodstream, the body breaks it down almost immediately.
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So they change the molecular structure.
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Tweaking it for stability?
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It loses power.
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Making it more powerful, the body destroys it faster.
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Again and again and again.
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216 versions.
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None good enough.
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But now it's a good enough time for a quick ad break.
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You know what's weird?
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I'll spend three hours researching whether a $20 gadget is worth buying, but the moment I need to book a doctor's appointment, suddenly my brain goes, eh, tomorrow.
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Because then you have to call, wait on hold, play phone tag, and by the time someone finally answers, the next appointment is sometime after the heat death of the universe.
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That's why I've started using ZocDoc.
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It lets you search and compare local in -network doctors, read reviews from real patients, check actual appointment availability, and book online in just a few clicks.
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Appointments are often available within 24 to 72 hours, sometimes even the same day.
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And it's completely free to use.
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So if you've been putting off making that appointment like I used to.
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Click the link in the description or head to zocdoc .com slash crayoncapital.
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Seriously, it's a small click that makes taking care of your health a whole lot easier?
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Okay, back to Novo.
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The costs keep growing and the confidence shrinking.
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The problem is starting to look unsolvable.
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But then, what if we attach a fatty acid chain to it?
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A fatty acid?
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Why?
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Okay, think of the bloodstream like a nightclub.
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The body's enzymes are the bouncers.
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Anything foreign gets spotted and thrown out.
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Our drug?
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Kicked out in minutes.
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But albumin is a protein that naturally lives in the blood.
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The VIP who's never questioned?
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And the only thing that gets albumin's attention?
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Fatty acids.
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It's basically albumin's magnet.
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So if we attach a fatty acid to our drug, albumin pulls it in like a plus one.
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Suddenly it's not a stranger anymore.
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It's rolling in with the VIP.
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Bouncers wave it through.
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It stays in the system for a week.
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At last, on the 217 attempts, they have it.
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A lab -engineered version of the body's own signal, built to last 7 days instead of minutes.
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In 2017, the FDA approved it for type 2 diabetes.
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And they name it, Ozempic.
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It is a quiet launch.
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No headlines.
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Just another diabetes drug entering a crowded market.
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But doctors start noticing something strange.
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Did you change these patients' diets?
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Tell them to exercise or anything?
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Hmm, I don't think I did.
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Why, is something wrong?
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No, it's just they lost weight.
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Like, all of them.
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For most companies, this would be the dream.
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A diabetes drug that also makes people lose weight?
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That is a jackpot, not a side effect.
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But inside Novo, nobody is celebrating too loudly yet.
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Because weight loss drugs had a history.
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A very ugly one.
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The results were disappointing, dangerous, or both.
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Fen -Fen pulled in 1997?
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Meridia pulled in 2010?
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By the 2010s, much of medicine had reached an uncomfortable conclusion.
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Maybe obesity was too complicated for a drug to solve.
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But Novo doesn't flinch.
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They launch a major clinical trial to answer one question.
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Can this drug cause major weight loss in people who do not even have diabetes?
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Hi, I'm calling from Novo.
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I just wanted to check if the trial data has been reviewed yet.
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Yes.
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We finished going through it this morning.
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Patients lost an average of 15 % of their body weight.
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Some were closer to 20.
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Sorry, what?
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15 %?
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Average.
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Across the trial.
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Before this, the best FDA -approved weight loss drugs usually delivered around 5 to 8 percent weight loss on average.
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That was considered strong.
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This is not a slightly better obesity drug.
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This is in a completely different league.
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A weekly injection was now producing numbers people used to associate with surgery.
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So researchers and regulators check the data again and again.
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The methodology holds, the results hold.
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The weight loss is real.
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So by 2021, the FDA approved a higher dose version specifically for obesity, WEGAV.
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And just like that, the drug splits into two identities.
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Ozempic for diabetes, the stronger dose for weight loss.
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That is when the story leaves medicine and enters culture.
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Doctors start getting flooded with questions.
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Patients start asking for it by name
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because suddenly celebrities are looking smaller influencers are whispering about it and search traffic is exploding
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ozembek goes viral demand surges sales explode where by 2024 the
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drugs generated 26 billion dollars in revenue novo nordisk becomes one of the biggest pharmaceutical stories on earth
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But there is one problem.
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They cannot make enough.
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In 2022, the FDA placed Ozempic and Wegevee on its shortage list.
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And this is where the story gets ugly.
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Good afternoon.
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Welcome to Crayon Pharmacy?
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Picking up a prescription?
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Yes, Ozempic.
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I see it here.
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Just so you know, your insurance didn't cover it, so this would be out of pocket today.
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How much?
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Total is $1 ,200.
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Fine.
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Sorry, you have Ozempic?
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I'm here for another prescription.
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But I've been trying to get a refill for weeks.
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I see your refill request.
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Your insurance covered order is still pending.
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We're waiting on allocated stock for covered prescriptions.
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But there's one right there.
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This one has already been processed as a cash pay prescription, so if I can pay cash, I can get it today?
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I have type 2 diabetes.
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I've been on this for two years.
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I really need this.
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Is there a problem?
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You're all set.
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Thank you for waiting.
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Your medication and receipt are in the bag.
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Have a wonderful day.
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regarding your situation we can fill the temporary medication your doctor
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sent in you've got to be kidding me I'm sorry for the inconvenience
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but until your insurance covered refill clears there's nothing I can release today except the temporary medication
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and that is the dangerous part
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if the official system will not give people the drug someone else in the gray market will.
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Clinics offering the alternatives at a fraction of the market price.
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$200 a month instead of $1 ,200.
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No wait list.
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No insurance battle.
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A quick online form and a vial arrives at your door.
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It sounded perfect for desperate patients.
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Until it wasn't.
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By 2023, Faco Zempic has entered the American drug supply chain, manufactured to look real, distributed through channels that bypass safety checks,
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sold into a market desperate for the miracle.
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Some patients received the wrong dose or the wrong substance, leading to some being hospitalized.
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But even the real drug wasn't perfect.
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Nausea.
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Vomiting.
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Sometimes bad enough that patients quit in the first month.
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Doctors started noticing muscle loss alongside the fat.
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And the worst part?
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I stopped taking it six months ago.
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I've gained almost everything back.
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That's not uncommon.
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So is this a cure or a subscription?
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The drug didn't cure anything.
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It managed it.
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Stopped paying.
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The hunger comes back.
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The body remembers.
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But we had been here before.
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Novo Nordisk failed 216 attempts.
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Every dead end eventually wasn't.
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So the scientists went back to work.
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Next generation drugs already in trials, Preserving muscle, lasting a month instead of a week.
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Showing signals in alcohol cravings, opioid addiction, even brain disease.
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What started in a lizard's venom was turning out to be something much larger.
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By 2025, the chaos had settled.
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Supply caught up.
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The gray market collapsed.
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And quietly, without anyone declaring it, the conversation had moved on.
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If hunger could be rewritten, what else could?
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As Brian Johnson said, we might be the first generation, that doesn't die.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 242 個句子、1820 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 12:28。 說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 146 個詞，很適合跟讀。 只有 79% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| diabetes 名詞 | /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/ | 糖尿病 |
| acid 名詞 | /ˈæsɪd/ | 酸 |
| prescription 名詞 | /pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/ | 藥方 /藥方, 處方 /處方 |
| insulin 名詞 | /ˈɪnsəlɪn/ | 胰島素 /胰島素 |
| venom 名詞 | /ˈvɛnəm/ | 毒液, 毒 |
| dose 名詞 | /ˈdəʊ̯s/ | 劑量 /劑量, (一)劑 /劑 |
| medication 名詞 | /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/ | 藥物 /藥物 |
| hunger 名詞 | /ˈhʌŋɡɚ/ | 飢餓 /飢餓 |
| approve 動詞 | /əˈpɹuːv/ | 批准, 贊成 /贊成 |
| obesity 名詞 | /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/ | 肥胖, 肥胖症 |
| temporary 形容詞 | /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/ | 暫時 /暫時 |
| gray 形容詞 | /ɡɹeɪ/ | 灰色 |
| muscle 名詞 | /ˈmʌs.əl/ | 肌肉, 筋肉 |
| solve 動詞 | /sɒlv/ | 解決 /解決 |
| ugly 形容詞 | /ˈʌɡli/ | 難看 /難看, 醜 /醜 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 釋義 |
|---|---|
| come back 動詞 | 回來 /回來, 返回 |
| figure out 動詞 | 弄清楚 |
| go through 動詞 | 通過 /通過 |
| pick up 動詞 | 拾取, 撿 /撿 |
| put off 動詞 | 推遲 /推遲, 順延 /順延 |
| slow down 動詞 | 減速 /減速, 放慢 |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 22 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I've, I'm, wasn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: prescription /pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/, medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, injection /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, obesity /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/
如何用這段影片練習
- 先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
- 用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 diabetes, acid, prescription 這類單詞。
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作 | you've been putting · I've been trying |
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | has tripled · has spent · I've started |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | are now classified · was assembled · has been reviewed |
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。