Show 1374: Marvelous Medicinal Mushrooms (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week, we talk with 4th-generation herbalist, research scientist and mycologist, Dr. Christopher Hobbs. He extolls the benefits of mushrooms not only as nutritious foods, but also as important components of natural medicine. What should you know about marvelous medicinal mushrooms? You may want to listen through your local public radio station or get the […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharm pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	Heelers around the world have long used mushrooms for their medicinal properties.
0:20.0	Are Americans catching up?
0:22.0	This is the people's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. Many mushrooms are used for food as well as medicine, but Americans have been
0:39.1	cautious about eating anything beyond cultivated white button mushrooms.
0:44.5	Mushroom experts are called mycologists.
0:46.7	They've been studying race eat, lions made in cortiseps mushrooms for their pharmacological
0:51.7	activity on the immune system.
0:54.4	Our guest today is a fourth generation herbalist as well as a mycologist and research scientist.
1:00.2	He provides the inside story on Shrooms.
1:02.8	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Headlines, holiday picnics, weddings and other summertime
1:21.7	gatherings seem to have contributed to a rise in COVID-19 cases.
1:27.0	Although levels are far below where they were at the height of the pandemic,
1:31.0	the CDC reports that cases have been increasing in 38 states.
1:36.8	Many cases are attributed to new variants, especially KP3 and LB. 1 mutations in these strains make them more transmissible.
1:47.0	Since hospitals no longer report COVID-19 admissions, we don't have good data on that aspect.
1:54.8	SARS COV2 remains a leading cause of death, though.
1:58.7	Between early May and early June, more than 1,600 people died from this infection.
2:04.4	Public health experts urge people experiencing respiratory symptoms
2:09.2	to stay home so they can avoid spreading the infection.
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