Hey everybody welcome to another episode of the Genius Life. I'm your host Max Lugovir.

In this episode of the show I'm super stoked to introduce you guys to my very good friend

Tero Isokalpala. Tero is a Finnish foraging expert. He is the founder of ForSigmatic which

is a very popular medicinal mushroom company. One of the smartest guys I know on Kakao and

he is a self-experimenter in the same vein as me and I'm sure many of you.

And I've been a fan of mushrooms my whole life. From the big portabellos that my family

and I would throw on the grill every summer, trenches, salt, pepper and extra virgin olive

oil to the raw sliced mushrooms I'd drop into a salad. They have a flavor and texture

that are at once highly amenable to whatever they're being eaten with but also retain a

delectable taste all of their own and the research on the health benefits of mushrooms

is just as compelling. Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of a large family of organisms from

the fungi kingdom. Some might call them fungi, I call them fungi. This kingdom is distinct

from the animal kingdom and the plant kingdom. That's right, mushrooms are not plants. The

fungi kingdom however is just as wide and diverse. Get this, there are 22,000 mushroom

species that we know of but it's estimated that there are likely 140,000 distinct species

on earth. Of the known mushrooms about 5% are of either culinary or medicinal use to

us humans but if that proportion holds true for the vast number of unexplored mushrooms

well what that implies is that there are 6,000 shrooms out there that could provide us

benefit. Now this is astonishing when you consider the fact that many of our most valuable

medications are fungal in origin. Mushrooms are nutritious, they contain a wide array of

nutrients and those are just the culinary mushrooms but we're going to talk about in

this episode of the show are medicinal mushrooms. Now Taro has a company that he's created called

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