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#469: Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America
The Tim Ferriss Show
Are There Any Success Stories?
One of the compelling reasons to say preserve rain forest and all sorts of different ego systems is for the medicinal value that might be contained. So in your experience, have you seen any tribes who have been able to take some of this knowledge and monotize it for their benefit? Have you seen any success stories? A sidenote, this could be a total urban legend. I heard that the way that viagra was identified for male enhancement, a rectile de function, whatever you want to call it, was that they had called it a fail for blood pressure or whatever the primary outcome measure was for the study. And they asked the subjects, these elderly folks, to return their supplies...
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