Big Trees, Masks And Singing, Capturing Holiday Scents, Unseen Body. Dec 17, 2021, Part 2
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The Human Body and the Natural World
Before medical school, i fell in love with the natural world and obsessively learned everything i could about every species of plant, animal fungus. Each did seem like a species in a new environment. And i really was became obsessively interested in learning absltutely everything the human body as i had about the natural world. I think it really crystallized for me when we zoom out from examining an individual species and individual organism to look at how they relate to each other. That same perspective came to me about the human body... seeing the different body parts from the ecological perspective helped me understand how the body works"
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