Beyond Darwin: Bruce Lipton on the Cocoon Before the Butterfly

Epigenetics, and why you are not your genes. This is Part 1 of our two-part conversation with cell biologist Bruce Lipton, author of "The Biology of Belief."

What if the chaos all around us isn't the end of the world, but the cocoon before the butterfly? Bruce Lipton has spent his career showing that our genes do not run the show the way we were taught. The environment does. And that changes what is possible for our health, our beliefs, and who we can still become.

In Part 1, you'll explore:

- The stem cell experiment that shows a cell's fate is written by its environment, not its DNA

- Why, in Bruce's words, "there is no gene that causes cancer," and where dis-ease actually begins

- How the first seven years of life program the beliefs we spend adulthood running on

- The caterpillar, the cocoon, and what has to dissolve before something new can take form

CHAPTERS

0:00 There is no gene that causes cancer

0:34 Welcome, and meet Bruce Lipton

2:40 The microscope and the "little people"

4:36 You are a community of 50 trillion cells