Show 1285: The Plant Hunter’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Cassandra Quave is an explorer and an ethnobotanist uncovering potential ways that plants can benefit human health. She has a particular interest in multi-antibiotic resistant infections. Not only do these pose a grave risk for people around the world; her professional interest is also personal. When she was three years old, she suffered a post-surgical […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.0	Physicians love laboratory-based drug development.
0:17.0	What if we also embrace the healing power of plants?
0:21.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden.
0:27.0	Dr. Cassandra Quave is known as the plant hunter. As an ethnobotanist, she's been searching for plants that offer anti-infected properties. What is she discovered?
0:44.8	Can we learn valuable lessons from the traditional knowledge held by communities around the
0:49.3	world? They've been using plants medicinally for centuries.
0:53.0	Are there ways to compensate native healers for their intellectual property?
0:58.0	What does ethnobotony have to offer in our fight against COVID-19 and other viral infections.
1:04.3	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, the Plant Hunter, a scientist's quest for nature's next
1:10.5	medicines. Next Medicins. In The People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:17.0	Paxlevid is an antiviral drug prescribed to older people with COVID-19.
1:22.0	When the drug was first tested and found a prescribed to older people with COVID-19.
1:23.0	When the drug was first tested and found effective,
1:25.8	the dominant strain of the coronavirus was Delta.
1:29.5	How well does this medication work against the omicron variant that currently
1:33.8	dominates? Israeli researchers recently published a study bringing these
1:38.5	data up to date. The investigators surveyed the data on over 100,000 patients utilizing Klalet Health Services,
1:47.0	while the Omicron variant soared.
1:50.0	More than 40,000 Israelis with COVID-19 infections were at least 65 years old.
1:57.1	The scientists looked at COVID hospitalizations and deaths in this age group.
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