In today’s episode I talk about my adventures traveling around the world finding plants with undiscovered molecules in them, potentially revolutionizing how we take care of our bodies. There is a Hawaiian plant called Hinahina, also known as “The Ghost Plant,” which helps with asthma and other lung ailments. This plant gets its name because it often will be seen in one spot, and then be completely gone when people come back to find it again. I tell my story about how I, along with my colleagues, got stuck in a Hawaiian forest before I was able to find the Hinahina plant. 30 species of plants go extinct every single day, which means potential remedies for our health are lost.

Hawaii, The Ghost Plant 2:16
Looking for the plant 5:36
Getting stuck 11:37
Finding the plant 21:24
Does wearing masks actually work with Covid? 23:55
What’s the best multivitamin to take? 25:22

“There have been a lot of clinical studies studying 600,000 people. One group took a multivitamin, the other group didn’t, and they tracked them for 20 years. And they found that the multi group versus the control group, there was no difference at all between incidences of heart attack, stroke, cancer, other health maladies. Exactly the same.” 26:15