180: Medicinal Mushroom Superfoods
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week’s yoga talk show explores medicinal mushrooms; not the hallucinogenic kind, the type that boost your immune system! Tero Isokauppila, co-founder of Four Sigma Foods, a medicinal mushroom superfood and super drink company, shares with you the health benefits of Reishi, Chaga, Shiitake, Cordyceps and Maitake.
What You'll Learn:
- How mushrooms can boost your immune system
- How water soluble soluble polysaccharides act to modulate your immune system
- How fat soluble triterpenes can balance your hormones
- Why many supplements are made with mycelium - not the actual mushroom fruiting bodies
- Why China is leading the way for medicinal mushrooms both with cultivation and extraction
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Do healthy store-bought salad dressings exist?
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| 1:23.4 | In this week's yoga talk show I meet with the co-founder of |
| 1:30.9 | Four Sigma Food which is one of the premier manufacturers of medicinal |
| 1:35.8 | mushrooms in these really cool form where they're in a beverage and they dissolve |
| 1:40.5 | really easily and they've added some really natural flavors like |
| 1:43.8 | Stevia and Anise that make them extremely palatable they actually taste |
| 1:47.8 | really good. I've had a really bad history with mushrooms. They never agreed with me. I thought they didn't work for my |
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