Hello boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris and welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris show where it is my job to interview and deconstruct world class performers from all different fields. My guest today super exciting long time in the making.

Dr Mark Plotkin you can find him on Twitter at doc mark Plotkin PLOTKIN is an ethno botanist who serves as president of the Amazon Conservation team. You can find that at Amazon team.org which is partnered with 55 tribes to map and improve management and protection of 80 million acres of ancestral rainforests.

Educated at Harvard Yale and Tufts Plotkin has spent much of the past four decades studying the shamans and healing plants of tropical America from Mexico to Argentina. Although much of his work focuses on the rainforests of the northeast Amazon. He is best known to the general public as the author of the book Tales of a Shamans Apprentice, one of the most popular books about the rainforest ever published. His new book, published by Oxford Press, is the Amazon subtitle what everyone needs to know.

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