š§ Ethnobotany and Medical Discoveries with Dr. Paul Alan Cox
We chat about foods of the Blue Zones and how cyanobacteria are linked to neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and Alzheimerās disease.
From the discovery of an HIV/AIDS drug candidate to uncovering the secrets behind a neurotoxin responsible for neurodegenerative diseases, we have a lot to share this week on the show! Our guest is Dr. Paul Alan Cox, ethnobotanist and Executive Director of the Brain Chemistry Labs in Jackson, Wyoming, where he and his colleagues are searching for new treatments for ALS and Alzheimerās disease. Dr. Cox has lived for years in remote island villages, searching for new medicines. He was named one of TIME magazineās eleven āHeroes of Medicineā for his discovery of a new HIV/AIDS drug candidate. He was also awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, sometimes known as the Nobel Prize for the Environment. Visit this website to learn more: https://brainchemistrylabs.org/
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About Paul
Dr. Paul Alan Cox has lived for years in remote island villages searching for new medicines. He was named one of TIME magazineās eleven āHeroes of Medicineā for his discovery of a new HIV/AIDS drug candidate. He was also awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, sometimes known as the Nobel Prize of the Environment. Seacology, the island conservation not-for-profit he founded, has set aside over 1.5 million acres of rain forest and coral reef in 69 countries around the world.
Cox was both a Danforth Fellow and a National Science Foundation Fellow at Harvard where he received his Ph.D. He was then appointed as a Miller Fellow at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley. After serving as professor and dean at Brigham Young University he became the first King Carl XVI Gustaf Professor of Environmental Science in Sweden.
He serves as the Executive Director of the Brain Chemistry Labs in Jackson, Wyoming, where he and his colleagues are searching for new treatments for ALS and Alzheimerās disease.
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