272: Tero Isokauppila - The True Origin Of Christmas
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Tero Isokauppila (IG: @iamtero) is the founder of Four Sigmatic, a nature-centric Finnish-American company specializing in functional mushrooms, superfoods, and adaptogens. He's the author of Healing Mushrooms and Santa Sold Shrooms.
Tero was born in Finland and was the 13th generation to grew up on the family farm. There, he foraged for mushrooms and other wild foods while learning about nature at an early age.
Tero has a strong personal interest in health and wellness, which includes activities like making raw chocolate and practicing yin yoga. He's taken up a unique practice of napping on a nail mat, which is a modern form of acupressure and helps to energize his busy life.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The true story behind Christmas
- The connection between winter solstice and Christmas
- Santa was a Sami shaman
- Sami traditions vs. current traditions
- What is amanita muscaria?
- Mushrooms & vitamin D
- How Santa went down the "chimney"
- Tripping off yellow snow
- Psychedelics can be healing
- Beneficial Sami traditions
- Immune stimulants vs. adaptogens
- The power of chaga
- Tero's approach to goal setting
- Capture the moment
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Related links:
Tero Isokauppila - Santa Sold Shrooms (book)
Follow Tero Isokauppila on Instagram Tero Isokauppila - Healing Mushrooms (book)
Listen to Tero Isokauppila previously on TUHP (episode #15 & #143)
Four Sigmatic <== 15% off all Four Sigmatic products (free shipping on orders $100 or more)
Follow Four Sigmatic on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Mushroom Academy - free online course
Matthew Salton - Santa Is A Pyschedelic Mushroom (New York Times)
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| 0:00.0 | One of the things that we can learn from the Sami people is obviously gathering as a family |
| 0:04.6 | is really important or with your loved ones if you can visit your family meeting up with people |
| 0:09.4 | who are important in your life. Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:26.0 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:30.0 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:35.0 | And today we have an incredible guest on the show, |
| 0:37.1 | Terro Isocapilla. |
| 0:38.6 | This is his third time on the show. |
| 0:40.4 | He's the founder of Four Sigmaic, |
| 0:42.2 | a nature-centric Finnish-American company, |
| 0:44.7 | specializing in functional mushrooms, super foods, and adaptogens. |
| 0:48.6 | He was born in Finland and was the 13th generation to grow up on the family farm. |
| 0:52.6 | Dairy for mushrooms and other wild foods |
| 0:54.8 | while learning about nature at an early age. |
| 0:57.4 | He has a strong interest in health and wellness, |
| 0:59.4 | which includes activities like making raw chocolate |
| 1:02.0 | and practicing yin yoga. |
| 1:03.7 | He's taken up a unique practice in napping on a nail mat, |
| 1:06.9 | which is a modern form of acupressure and helps to energize his busy life. |
| 1:10.9 | Each time terror is on the show, it's always a great conversation and it's always on |
| 1:14.7 | mushrooms. |
| 1:15.7 | And today's conversation is a little bit different because we're talking about his new book, |
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