Andrew Huberman· PhD
And what we generally see with plant materials is they have alkaloids within those plants and those alkyoids um have helped define really our chemical neurotransmitter systems. Nicotine perfect example. It's an alkyoid. We have an entire acetylolineric nervous system and which is the exclusive nervous system in insects. But nicotine binds to nicotinic acetylolinergic receptors. That whole system was defined by nicotine.