Hello, this is Evan Brand. Welcome to the podcast. I'm a functional medicine practitioner operating worldwide. I love my job. Super grateful that you're here with me. We're going to chat about mushrooms today with a really awesome guy. I've seen him around. He did the rounds a few years ago on like every podcast ever, Ben Greenfield's podcast and Dave Asprey and a lot of my podcasting friends, he went on all their shows

and took us a while to get together, but we're here.

And Jeff Chilton, he's been a pioneer in the medical mushroom industry since it began working

for a large commercial mushroom farm in 1973, and his company, NAMEX, is the largest medicinal

mushroom raw material supplier in the U.S.

So this guy's in the big leagues.

He co-authored the Mushroom Cultivator Book back in the 80s,

and he switched from growing mushrooms for food to selling them as nutritional supplements.

And his son also is super into mushrooms mushrooms and they run the company together.

So we're going to dive in.

We're going to talk about different type of mushrooms.

We're going to talk about how do you get into mushrooms?

I mean, come on, right?

Like you're not just going to start, hey, I'm going to start growing and selling mushrooms.

Nobody does that unless they had a good experience with mushrooms.

So of course, I want to ask him about that.

And then talk about what can you do to incorporate mushrooms into your life. I've been using them for many, many years, but turns out I've been using the wrong kind, the wrong brand,

and I've been basically buying fairy dust. So hopefully we'll be able to help you not buy fairy dust

anymore if you're into mushrooms as much as me. And if you're not, you should be because

they have huge potential for helping regulate the immune system, boost the immune system, and are

definitely an adjunct therapy to many other things we do in the functional medicine world.

So let's dive into the show and then real quick, if you want to reach out clinically, I do

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