Straight-Up Wellness

110: Jeff Chilton on Fabulous Fungi


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In this episode, Jeff Chilton talks about the benefits of medicinal mushrooms:

* Nutritional benefits of mushrooms
* Fungi kingdom
* How mushrooms grow
* Natural cycle of decomposition
* Formation of medicinal mushrooms
* Mushroom hunting
* Caloric value of mushrooms
* Type of carbohydrates in mushrooms
* Feeding the microbiome
* Mushrooms for immune support
* Species of medicinal mushrooms
* Connection to Chinese medicine
* Medicinal vs edible mushrooms
* Buying medicinal mushrooms at the grocery store
* Mushroom cooking tips
* Amino acid profile of mushrooms
* Importance of buying organic mushrooms
* Mushroom supplements
* How mushroom supplements work in the body
* What to look out for in mushroom supplements
* Hidden starches in mushroom supplements
* Tasting for authenticity
* Choosing a quality mushroom supplement
* Polysaccharides
* Iodine starch test
* Lion's Mane mushroom
* Caterpillar Fungus
* The Mushroom of Immortality
* Adding mushrooms to your diet
...more
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