 There was a chlorine factory that was losing about 150,000 pounds of mercury every year before it was shut down. And so her situation to me really brought together the inflammation of a body, the inflammation of a social condition, the inflammation of a planet, and seeing how these things are completely inextricably linked. The linkage between the outside world and our internal body systems isn't just a metaphor. It's a real relationship that can have massive repercussions on our health.