204: Magic Mushroom Medicine
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We´ve been talking about the Future of Food and what our main food sources will be as the population increases, are mushrooms one of them? Are they important and can they benefit our health and well being when used as more than a staple food?
On this week´s Yoga Talk Show, you will meet Jeff Chilton and we will discover the surprising nutritional facts and health benefits of mushrooms. Who knew that they are not just a pizza topping!
Jeff Chilton studied ethno-mycology at the University of Washington and began working on a commercial mushroom farm in 1973—and mushrooms have been the focus of his career ever since. During the next 10 years he became the production manager, responsible for the cultivation of over 2 million pounds of agaricus mushrooms per year. He was also involved in the research and development of shiitake, oyster and enoki mushrooms which resulted in the earliest US fresh shiitake sales in 1978.
His current company, Nammex, was founded in 1989 and produces source material for medicinal-grade nutritional formulas.
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Listen & Learn:
- Why you should be eating shiitake mushrooms regularly
- Why mushroom mycelium (rather than fruiting body) is not a great source for food or nutrition
- How poor quality supplements can be high in grains and starch
- Beta-glucans can make up to 25-60% of mushrooms (or almost none at all)
- Why "made in USA" is the worst choice
- How to test your product with iodine
- Whar are Triterpenes
- Why the majority of all mushrooms are grown in China—and certainly the best ones
- How to grow your mushrooms in dark spaces, light spaces, tree cuttings, and more
Yoga Practice Tip of the Week:
- Flexibility Training
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| 0:00.0 | I've been training yoga teachers now for over 10 years, over 2,000 graduates in over 40 countries |
| 0:05.6 | and throughout that experience a couple of things that I've learned, well a lot of things that I've learned, |
| 0:09.6 | but one of the big takeaways is that about 3 to 5% of graduates walk away from my courses |
| 0:15.4 | really happy but wanting more. When I say more they want more in terms of |
| 0:19.5 | business skills they want more in terms of in-depth applied anatomy, leadership, public speaking. |
| 0:25.0 | Basically, they want to figure out how to make a career out of yoga. |
| 0:28.0 | The majority of people are not looking for that, but a very small percentage really want to go all the way and they kind of want to do what |
| 0:34.7 | I've done which is make a career and a lifestyle and a livelihood with yoga and for that you need |
| 0:39.8 | more education. A 200 hour program just isn't enough. |
| 0:43.8 | So for that reason I've created this six month yoga teachers college program. |
| 0:47.7 | It's based here in Barcelona and there's two in-person immersion. |
| 0:51.1 | There's 24 e-learning modules that you do in conjunction with a |
| 0:55.1 | one-on-one mentor and then our last part of the program is an apprenticeship and |
| 0:59.7 | placement program it's a very intensive course It's designed for people who are extremely serious about |
| 1:06.0 | their practice and their career and I couldn't be more excited about it. We are now open |
| 1:11.8 | for applications. The application process is quite rigorous, so do be prepared to fill up quite a bit of information. You and I will talk on the phone. Make sure it's the right choice for you. We invest a ton of time and |
| 1:23.5 | resources into you so we want to make sure that you're all in as well. If you're |
| 1:28.1 | interested please go to yoga teachers college.com it's yoga teachers college.com you can learn more about how the schedule works about the |
| 1:36.2 | dates and the commitment and see if it's the right thing for you. Thanks so much. |
| 1:40.5 | Enjoy the show. If you walk into your average supermarket, there is about 80 to 85% package |
| 1:51.2 | processed foods, which are usually corn or wheat or somehow grain. percent packaged |
| 1:54.9 | processed foods which are usually corn or wheat or somehow grain-based and they're not that interesting |
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