Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.

I'm Cody Gough. And today you learn about how plants could help us solve the

superbug crisis with renowned medical ethnobotonous Dr. Cassandra Quave.

You'll also learn about how Japanese engineers achieve a ridiculously fast world record for

internet speed. Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Medicins don't just come from laboratories and that includes some of the best medicines.

Plants are the basis for a lot of life-saving and health-improving medicines.

And in fact, new medicinal plants could help us save millions of lives every year by helping us fight the superbug crisis.

See right now, antibiotic resistance microbes cause untreatable infections that lead to the loss of 700,000 lives every year.

And that number is projected to increase to 10 million a year by 2050. And today's guest is a leading medical ethnobotonist

who is working on ways to stop this from happening. Dr. Cassandra Quave is on a

quest to find nature's next medicines.

And she's doing that by working with researchers around the world on figuring out how certain

plants fight infections and which of their compounds could be used in new treatments.

I interviewed her with my esteemed colleague Ashley Hamer,

and I kicked off our conversation by admitting that I thought we made medicines in the lab.

So I had to ask, why is nature? I thought we made medicines in the lab.

So I had to ask, why is nature the best place

to look for medicines?

Yeah, well, I mean, I think it's fascinating

because so many of our current medicines

were originally discovered in nature.

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