"Ethnobotany is the study of the relationship between humans and plants." - Kerry Hughes

Meet Kerry Hughes, ethnobotanist and author, and an inspiring member of Nootropics Depot's scientific advisory board. Kerry joins the podcast to discuss her background and passions as an ethnobotanist, and to share practical tips for connecting with the healing power of plants in our everyday lives, through supplements, food, incense, and spending time in nature.

Chapters

0:00 Introducing Kerry Hughes, Ethnobotanist

1:17 What is an Ethnobotanist?

3:08 Taking Erinamax, Tiger Milk + Cognance from the ND Catalogue

4:21 Popping Pills - Ethnobotany style

5:55 Effectiveness of Quick-Dissolve Cognance vs. Cognizance capsules

10:14 The Lack of Bitter Compounds in Our Foods

12:18 Bitter Sensors in Our Digestive Tract

18:03 Madronho

20:41 Herbaviore - ??

23:30 Bitter Compounds Regulate Blood Sugar - GLP1 Agonism

25:35 Biodiversity - We Don’t Save What We Don’t Value

27:45 California - LA Fires, Climate Crisis, Land Management

28:13 Cattle Grass

31:38 Gulf of Mexico - Hating on Swamps

35:25 Rewilding

37:05 Effects of Erinamax and Cognance

38:15 Experiential Accounts of Supplements

44:50 Being Mindful of Safety with Extracts - Purity

46:17 The Dose is the Poison

51:25 What’s In Your Garden?

51:45 The Squarest Ethnobotanist You’ll Ever Meet

55:55 Biodiversity

58:40 Regenerative Certification

1:01:55 Natural Wineries

1:02:17 Wild Yeast in Geuze and Lambiek

1:03:42 Plants are Sentient Beings

1:05:15 A World without Opiates

1:07:25 Use of plants, music, nature

1:10:25 Connection - Essential for Human Health