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Tero Isokauppila - Medicinal Mushrooms Have The Power To Regulate Your Immunity, Boost Your Brain, And Improve Your Gut Health

Episode 143

Tero Isokauppila is the president of Four Sigmatic. He's a natural health expert with a passion for shrooms, medicinal herbs, nutrition, and biz development.

In this episode, we discuss:

Why Four Sigma Foods is now Four Sigmatic
What life was like growing up on a farm
Focusing on the things you can control
Reishi and chaga mushroom are adaptogens
Increasing your stress buffer with adaptogens
The history of human beings and mushrooms
How medicinal mushrooms help regulate your immune system
Can medicinal mushrooms down regulate an overactive immune system (autoimmunity)?
How to incorporate medical mushrooms into your healthy routine
How long does it take to notice the benefits of shrooms?
Does Tero take different medicinal mushrooms depending on the season or time of day?
Culinary mushrooms vs. medical mushrooms
Mushrooms as a meat substitute
Beware of portobello and button mushrooms from the grocery store
Are medicinal mushrooms a good source of macronutrients, vitamins, and minerals?
You can get vitamin D from fungi
Dry medicinal mushrooms in the sun to boost their vitamin D content
Don't measure your foraging success by how much you harvest
How to tone down the bitter taste of reishi mushroom
Using chaga tea when making rice or as the base of your next smoothie
Boost your brain with lion's mane
Cordyceps is essentially a parasitic fungus
The link between gut health and reishi mushroom
Help regulate your blood sugar with shrooms
How Tero winds down at the end of the day (evening routine)
Ending the workday with gas still in the tank
The power of breathing deeply

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Tero Isokauppila - Medicinal Mushrooms Have The Power To Regulate Your Immunity, Boost Your Brain, And Improve Your Gut Health