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Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Episode 101: Dr. George Diggs

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

Sports, Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Hybridathlete, Ultra, Endurance, Ultramarathon, Running, Run

4.7615 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, Dr. George Diggs joined the show. George holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is Professor of Biology at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He is a specialist in the systematics of the plant genera Comarostaphylis and Arctostaphylos. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcasts with your host's Dr. Sean Baker and Zach Bitter.

0:07.0

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0:15.0

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0:43.9

Now, on to the next topic.

0:48.1

No worries.

0:48.9

Good to see you again, Sean.

0:49.9

Yeah, George.

0:50.6

It's nice to see you.

0:51.6

Zach, we're recording now.

0:53.4

Yeah, Zach, I got to meet George at the recent... Carnivore convention we had Carnivry kind of Amber put on, and I'd seen one of his presentations. Oh, probably about a year ago, I watched a video that you did, I think it was at Ancestral Health and talking about plant evolution. And your background, if I'm out in a second, you do kind of plant

1:12.8

evolutionary biology. Is that more or less? Or what is the exact title? Yes, I am a plant

1:19.4

evolutionary biologist. So early in my career, I spent a lot of time in the tropics, central and

1:26.0

South America, looking for new species of plants and studying plant evolution, doing field work.

1:31.3

And then in more recent years, I've done a lot of research on Texas plants and been some writing on that.

1:40.3

And then shifting over into evolution and human health, kind of with the plant link there, because of all the plant toxins.

1:50.0

I'm particularly interested in plant toxins, plant chemical defense.

1:54.7

Yeah, George, let me, because I'm just remember I took a botany class in college, and that's about it for me.

2:00.7

I mean, we were learning about the monocots and the diacots and the monocots were older and stuff

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