EFR 443: Why Mushrooms Are the Missing Dietary Link for Disease Prevention, Improved Cognition, and Boosting Your Immune System with Jeff Chilton

Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning

Chase Chewning

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

5.0 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Chilton is the founder of Nammex, the leading supplier of organic mushroom extract ingredients to supplement companies. A pioneer and trailblazer in his field, Jeff was a key player in bringing medicinal mushrooms to the US market, and has dedicated over 40 years to unlocking its many health benefits.

He studied ethnomycology at the University of Washington in the late 1960s and went to work for Ostrom Mushroom Farms in Olympia, Washington in 1973. Over the next ten years, Jeff worked his way up to Grower and ultimately Production Manager.

In 1983, Jeff co-authored the highly-acclaimed book on small-scale mushroom cultivation, The Mushroom Cultivator. Throughout the 1980s, he operated a mushroom spawn business in British Columbia.

Finally, Jeff founded Nammex in 1989. Contributing to the reputation of the company as a leader in the mushroom industry were Jeff's numerous trips to China. During his visits, he built valuable relationships while attending conferences and visiting research facilities and mushroom farms around the country.

Aside from his work at Nammex, Jeff, along with his son Skye, offer a product line of high-grade mushroom supplements at Real Mushrooms.

To Jeff, mushrooms are a forgotten food, or what he calls "the missing dietary link" for many in the West. He encourages everyone to include mushrooms in their diet, in whole or supplement form, to experience their often-overlooked holistic health benefits.

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Key Highlights

What should we be looking for in mushrooms or mushroom-derived products when looking to supplement our diet?
Jeff explains why more species of mushroom in a single product does not make it better than a product with fewer species.
Chase and Jeff discuss the benefits of the four mushrooms that Chase consumes on a daily basis

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0:00.0	My name is Jeff Chilton. I'm a child of the 60s. I was born in the Pacific Northwest an area of where there's lots of mushrooms growing studied mushrooms at university, grew mushrooms commercially on large-scale farm for 10 years.
0:15.0	And what I want you all to understand is mushrooms are a wonderful food,
0:21.0	a forgotten food, sometimes what I call the missing dietary link, please put mushrooms into your diet.
0:27.0	If you want to go a little deeper, you can supplement with mushrooms, but this is something that we're missing in our diet in the West.
0:35.0	They've known about this for years and years and in Asia.
0:39.0	So put mushrooms into your diet, make it part of your life, and I think you'll live a healthier life because of it.
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1:45.0	Welcome back everyone.
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1:51.0	from people who are putting a purpose to their passion and truly living a life ever forward.
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2:04.0	I am your host Chase Chuning.
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