180: Medicinal Mushroom Superfoods

This week’s yoga talk show explores medicinal mushrooms; not the hallucinogenic kind, the type that boost your immune system! Tero Isokauppila, co-founder of Four Sigma Foods, a medicinal mushroom superfood and super drink company, shares with you the health benefits of Reishi, Chaga, Shiitake, Cordyceps and Maitake.

What You'll Learn:

• How mushrooms can boost your immune system


• How water soluble soluble polysaccharides act to modulate your immune system


• How fat soluble triterpenes can balance your hormones


• Why many supplements are made with mycelium - not the actual mushroom fruiting bodies


• Why China is leading the way for medicinal mushrooms both with cultivation and extraction

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

• Do healthy store-bought salad dressings exist?

Links & References from the Show:

• Four Sigma Foods

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