“Maybe it is a epigenetic shift that happens through a mystical experience with the plants, through extended diets”.

The American family doctor Joe Tafur has found the way to translate the local metaphor into scientific language to explain the illness and the cure. Where shamans speak of negative energy accumulated or evil spirits, Joe refers to epigenetics: those elements that determine the expression of the genetic code in humans and are not immutable, unlike the DNA sequence. And much more in the following interview.