Lucidum Medicinals and the Future of Functional Fungi with Dr. Anna Sitkoff

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Dr. Anna Sitkoff’s path into naturopathic medicine and herbal therapeutics was forged by deeply personal motivations. Growing up in a household where chronic illness was a constant presence—her parents both experiencing persistent health challenges—Anna became acutely aware of the limitations of conventional healthcare. Her curiosity naturally led her toward nutrition, which she formally studied. But it was during her time apprenticing with an herbalist in college that Anna’s understanding of the body’s healing capabilities expanded beyond diet alone.

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0:00.0	Make sure that you're eating enough protein.
0:03.3	Really, though.
0:04.6	Like, aim for one gram of protein per pound of body weight.
0:09.4	And it seems like a lot and it might be a full-time job.
0:12.9	But that's like a great place to start as far as like feeling good in your body.
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0:25.2	unravel the intricacies of thriving businesses.
0:28.1	I'm your host, Onika Jackson, and I'm on a mission to uncover the stories, strategies,
0:32.9	and secrets that have propelled entrepreneurs and business leaders to success.
0:41.0	It is a great pleasure to have Anna Sitkaf on the show today telling us about naturopathic
0:47.4	medicine and specifically medicinal mushrooms. And Anna, I was reflecting on I had my rise mushroom
0:53.4	coffee this morning as I do every day.
0:55.8	It's replaced my coffee habit and gives me a lot of energy.
0:59.2	And I just feel really great when I start my day that way.
1:03.1	And I'm really excited to dive deeper into this whole world of medicine and how we can really heal ourselves using nature instead of just using,
1:13.7	you know, all the drugs that are compounded in labs. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited to be here and talk
1:19.4	to you about that. Yeah. Well, let's talk about how you chose this as your pass. Yeah. It was all
1:26.3	very, very linear, really, since I was a young kid. So I grew up with two
1:32.1	parents who had chronic illness. My dad had chronic lymphocytic leukemia. My mom had and has
1:37.1	chronic Lyme disease. And they were always, in addition to their allopathic doctors, so their
1:42.3	MDs, they were also seeing naturopathic
1:45.5	doctors, homeopaths, acupuncturists, Chinese medical doctors, just they were really getting
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