Well hello friends, welcome to another episode of the Genius Life.

I'm your host Max Lugovir, a filmmaker, health and science journalist in the author of

The New York Times Best Selling Book Genius Foods.

In this episode of the show, I'm super excited to welcome Tero Isso Kaupala.

Tero is the author of Healing Mushrooms, a practical and culinary guide to using mushrooms

for whole body health.

He's the founder of Forsegmatic, a popular medicinal mushroom company, and he's also one

of my good friends.

This is his second appearance on my podcast, and I brought him back to celebrate the launch

of his new book, Santa Sold Shrooms.

When Tero told me a few months ago about his latest research obsession, which ultimately

played out in the form of a children's holiday book, my jaw was on the floor.

I thought it was the coolest story ever.

I mean, imagine, good old St. Nick having psychedelic origins.

Now with the holiday season fast approaching, this is going to be one mind-bender of an episode,

and we plunge right into it.

So over the next 45 minutes, you're going to learn to sign to Santa Claus that you definitely

did not hear about in school.

Now please guys, it would really mean the world to me if you'd consider sharing this podcast

on social media.

You can take a screen grab of the app that you use to listen to the show and tag both

Tero and I along with your favorite quote from this episode, and that really helps spread

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