In Search of Balance Page #3

its component parts

as if the whole was

just the sum of its part

so we can take

any single part out,

you know, get the same

effect as a whole.

Such processes do not

really occur in nature.

One of the first

ones was Descartes

which basically said you cannot

study nature in its complexity,

you have to study

in its parts,

and that's when the

transdisciplinary nature

of knowledge

was divided

into commodities

or disciplines.

The second

influence was Darwin.

Darwin, although he came up

with the Theory of Evolution,

he emphasized the

survival of the fittest,

which means competition,

the cones that are successful

competitors make it,

when it turns out

that in nature

there is much more

complementarity

and collaboration and

covariation than competition.

The traditional

linear model,

the pharmaceutical

company model is,

let's identify

one probiotic,

they would be put into this

extremely complicated system

which is equally

complicated to our brain

and that will

cure disease.

In the modern system's view not

the right way of looking at it.

We see now that we don't

live in a linear world

that A causes B causes C.

What in fact we live in

is a complex network.

It's a complex system

where everything is related

to everything else,

it's that kind of thinking,

the science of complex systems

are adaptive complex systems

that determine our future.

What you need for a complex

problem is a complex solution.

One of the things that

we have done is that

was really important to us

was we started a garden;

when we got the house that

was one of the first things

that we did and started

growing our own food.

It's kind of something

that's become more integrated

into our lives, it tends

to drive a lot of things,

like we look at some of the

food in the grocery store now

and just go,

I don't want that.

You know, I want

tomatoes from my garden.

I started really thinking

about how I eat and what I eat

and started

to refine that.

I grew up outside of Buffalo

and a friend of mine

who grew up there too she

calls it 'The Land of Meat.'

A meal is meat with

other things around it.

Have salad as a meal, you like

having a side dish as a meal.

It was harder to avoid it

than it was to just take it in.

You grow up, you

don't question it,

when you get married

and meat has some bad

effects on your body.

My life then was really

very much about my work

and eating as conveniently

as possible.

Food is emotional and it's part

of, I don't know, who you are.

That was the running down.

Gotten down to

where I am about -

around 210 or so

and that keeps me going.

My blood sugar level has

been in the normal range now

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