The meeting participants learned that the lack of biodiversity in childhood and adulthood is associated with an increase in autoimmune diseases. For the formation of a stable immune system, it is important for a person to interact daily with a diverse natural environment — plants, soil and ecosystems, which provides a natural training of the immune system. 

It was also noted that patients in hospitals with views of green areas recover faster, require fewer painkillers, and spend less time in the hospital.

The speaker stressed that nutrition also requires revision, taking into account the biochemistry of plants. Proper food preparation is crucial because many common foods — flax, soy, and legumes — contain anti-nutritional substances that can be harmful if processed improperly. Therefore, heat treatment and pre-soaking are necessary.

The One Health concept states that human health is inseparable from the health of animals, plants and ecosystems. Thus, clover phytoestrogens can affect sheep reproduction, and the pet microbiome can affect people's mental state. It is important to consider not only an individual, but also his "personal biocenosis" — the environment with which he interacts on a daily basis.

Based on this, it is necessary to develop skills in interacting with living systems: to recognize plants, understand their properties, grow and apply them in practice. The key meta-skills of the future include the ability to be part of a biocenosis, build symbiotic (win—win) relationships, and understand the processes of metabiosis, the metabolism between organisms.

Photos from the event can be found in the album.