What Ancients Cultures Have To Teach Us About Being Human And Happy with Wade Davis
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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This episode is brought to you by Gut Food, Cozy Earth, InsideTracker, and Rupa Health.
Many of us are feeling a crisis of meaning; feeling we’ve lost our way amongst the stressors and distractions of modern life. We are more isolated, divided, and sick than ever before. Personally, I always turn to nature when I’m feeling lost. And in traveling, talking to interesting people, and learning about the world, I’ve found that ancient cultures and their relationships to nature can teach us volumes when it comes to rediscovering connection, health, and meaning.
Today, I’m excited to share a conversation I had with Wade Davis, all about culture, the depth of the natural world, belief systems, ethnobotany, psychedelics, and more. Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of 23 books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, and he was the winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top nonfiction prize in the English language. His latest book is Magdalena: River of Dreams. Wade’s many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the NGS.
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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):
- Wade’s early experiences that first got him interested in anthropology (5:56 / 3:24)
- Why western culture is actually an anomaly, not the norm (7:57 / 5:23)
- Our misguided understanding of the purpose of culture (18:00 / 15:50)
- Why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world (20:40 / 18:57)
- The nature of life (22:48 / 20:50)
- Human commonalities among all cultural expressions (27:30 / 23:08)
- The value of language and storytelling (29:36 / 24:28)
- Why biologically, the concept of race is utter fiction (31:27 / 27:06)
- Psychedelics and our relationship to nature and plant medicines (37:27 / 33:20)
- Communicating with plants (1:01:22 / 39:35)
Learn more about Wade Davis at daviswade.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy the old Victorian idea that we went from the savage to the barbarian to the civilized of the strand of London that European society |
| 0:10.3 | He said at the apex of the pyramid going down to the so-called primitives as well has been absolutely debunked by modern science |
| 0:19.2 | In my practice, I always look at the gut first when someone's guts messed up |
| 0:23.3 | It can impact their overall health their mood energy levels skin digestion and everything in between |
| 0:28.9 | I always thought I did a pretty good job at taking care of my own gut |
| 0:32.0 | But when I got really sick a few years ago from mold poisoning a root canal gone wrong |
| 0:36.1 | In antibiotic and a few other insults |
| 0:38.2 | I realized that I had a lot of gut healing to do. I talked to S.Berson gut health read a ton of new research on the microbiome |
| 0:44.6 | And figured out a way to heal my body using three critical things |
| 0:49.1 | Prebiotics, probiotics and polyphenols. I created a multi-bidemen for the gut and you can't keep that information yourself |
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| 1:07.0 | Support the growth of beneficial gut bacteria |
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| 1:28.0 | Now I don't think there's anything better than waking up feeling super rested relaxed and energized and when we get high quality sleep |
| 1:33.4 | This is the norm but without it our simple day-to-day tasks can feel impossible and our health suffers and that's why I'm always looking for ways to upgrade my sleep routine and the bamboo sheet set from |
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