AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
The Color Green in Nature Is a Metaphor
Green is a metaphor that lends itself to all sorts of artistic rendering. The color green in nature, you know, is chlorophyl. And chlorophyl is the transduct transducer of energy of the environment into the energy of the organism. When our environment is disturbed, we are disturbed. Our genes are disturbed, they fight back as an alarm reaction called inflammation. So for me, the immune system was a connector. It was a point of entry into this broader discussion, into the mind, body, green connuction. Now we even our thoughts, attitudes and beliefs are signals that are sent to our genes that cause epigenitic modulation of their function. Iif people don't