143: Tero Isokauppila - Medicinal Mushrooms Have The Power To Regulate Your Immunity, Boost Your Brain, And Improve Your Gut Health
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Tero Isokauppila is the president of Four Sigmatic. He's a natural health expert with a passion for shrooms, medicinal herbs, nutrition, and biz development.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why Four Sigma Foods is now Four Sigmatic
- What life was like growing up on a farm
- Focusing on the things you can control
- Reishi and chaga mushroom are adaptogens
- Increasing your stress buffer with adaptogens
- The history of human beings and mushrooms
- How medicinal mushrooms help regulate your immune system
- Can medicinal mushrooms down regulate an overactive immune system (autoimmunity)?
- How to incorporate medical mushrooms into your healthy routine
- How long does it take to notice the benefits of shrooms?
- Does Tero take different medicinal mushrooms depending on the season or time of day?
- Culinary mushrooms vs. medical mushrooms
- Mushrooms as a meat substitute
- Beware of portobello and button mushrooms from the grocery store
- Are medicinal mushrooms a good source of macronutrients, vitamins, and minerals?
- You can get vitamin D from fungi
- Dry medicinal mushrooms in the sun to boost their vitamin D content
- Don't measure your foraging success by how much you harvest
- How to tone down the bitter taste of reishi mushroom
- Using chaga tea when making rice or as the base of your next smoothie
- Boost your brain with lion's mane
- Cordyceps is essentially a parasitic fungus
- The link between gut health and reishi mushroom
- Help regulate your blood sugar with shrooms
- How Tero winds down at the end of the day (evening routine)
- Ending the workday with gas still in the tank
- The power of breathing deeply
Related links:
The Sarasota Airbnb we talk about in the opening
Sunwarrior <== 20% off all Sunwarrior products & free shipping over $50 (US only)
Four Sigmatic's website <== 15% off all shrooms (free shipping over $100)
Follow Tero Isokauppila on Instagram
Listen to Tero Isokauppila previously on TUHP (episode #15)
Listen to Meghan Telpner previously on TUHP (episode #91 & #25)
Listen to Josh Gitalis previously on TUHP (episode #80 & #4)
Shawn Stevenson - Sleep Smarter (book)
Related episodes:
272: Tero Isokauppila – The True Origin Of Christmas
241: Dr. Aviva Romm – The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution • Permission To Pause • Embracing Adaptogens
225: Focus Friday – Understanding Adaptogens
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Ultimate Health Podcast episode 143. |
| 0:04.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Hello and |
| 0:13.2 | welcome to The Ultimate Health Podcast episode 143. Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here each and every week to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:19.2 | This week our featured guest is Terro Isocopilla. He's a return guest, the President of Four |
| 0:25.1 | Sigmatic, a natural health expert with a passion for shrooms, medicinal herbs, nutrition, and business |
| 0:31.4 | development. |
| 0:32.6 | We're excited to be recording this opening from sunny Florida. |
| 0:35.7 | We're on a week and a half vacation right now, |
| 0:38.0 | fitting a little bit of work in, but trying to relax, |
| 0:41.1 | get down to the beach and get some sun, |
| 0:43.4 | and it's just been fantastic so far. |
| 0:45.9 | Yeah, it's amazing what the sun can do for the soul. |
| 0:48.3 | And if you guys have been following us along on Instagram, |
| 0:50.9 | you probably saw that Jesse and I found the most perfect Airbnb for us. |
| 0:55.2 | We got hooked up with an organic mattress, filtered water, |
| 0:59.6 | her kitchen was laced with super foods and herbs. we were just having the time of our life |
| 1:04.8 | so hopefully you guys check that out at Altama Health Podcast on Instagram and it's just |
| 1:09.2 | amazing what you can attract when you are of a certain mindset you're just going to find the places in the world |
| 1:15.5 | that meet your standards. |
| 1:17.0 | So we had the best time and we do have a link to where we stayed in our show note so you |
| 1:21.7 | guys can go and check that out. |
| 1:23.4 | So we've been getting some incredible reviews as always and I'm going to read this week's review |
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