Mind Body Plants

Adam Verwey is a founder and managing director at Future Super, Australia's first 100% fossil fuel-free superannuation fund.

Welcome to the Mind Body Plants podcast where we explore the science and philosophy of the human mind and body, and ways that we as individuals can create a healthy and sustainable future for earth and for ourselves.

Tom Earls is a beekeeper and educator in Surf Coast, Victoria, and founder of Coastal Nectar.

Jeff Chilton, raised in the pacific north-west, studied ethno-mycology in the late 1960s. In 1989 he founded Nammex, a business that introduced medicinal mushrooms to the nutritional supplement industry in the United States. Nammex extracts are used by many supplement companies and are noted for their high quality based on scientific analysis of the active compounds.

In this episode, I sit down with 4 x author, two-time natural bodybuilding champion, and plant-based advocate, Robert Cheeke to discuss a game-changing approach to peak performance; Plant-based Nutrition.

Tom Simak is the host of The Plant Paradigm Podcast. In this episode, we discuss how our diet impacts the health of our health and the planet.

Mason Taylor is a qualified Herbalist and Founder of SuperFeast and The SuperFeast Podcast. Mason explores the philosophy behind cultivating health with the use of certain tonic herbs and medicinal mushrooms.

Peter Hunt AM is an Investor and Engaged Philanthropist, Founder Greenhill Australia, Women’s Community Shelters, and Mind Medicine Australia. This episode is a discussion surrounding the significance of context in which psychedelic medicine is used, exploring the scientific evidence, and psychological phenomena.

Dr. Matthew Nagra ND is a Naturopathic Doctor who is a passionate advocate for evidence-based nutrition. He adopted a plant-exclusive diet when he had health problems during his childhood and subsequently improved nearly every health concern he had. Matthew is incredibly knowledgeable within the scientific literature. Through social media, public speaking, his volunteer work with Nutritionfacts.org, and his clinical practice, he aims to educate people to help them gain control of their health through nutrition and lifestyle.

This episode is jam-packed with information. Matthew talks us through nutritional concerns of the carnivorous diets like saturated fat. How much is too much? What is LDL? He also dispels some of the many myths surrounding the inadequacy of a plant-exclusive diet from iron and calcium to vitamin D3 and K2, as well as omega 3 fatty acids (ALA/EPA/DHA) and phytates, lectins, and oxalates.

Meditation; for some it's an endeavour, for some it's a fashion. For me, and for most, it's understanding the fundamental nature of being human.

Psychedelics comes from the Greek words "psyche" meaning "mind" or "consciousness" and "delos" meaning "clear, visible". In other words, psychedelics means mind-revealing or mind-manifesting.

Both psychedelics and meditation exert huge changes in consciousness, perception and cognition. What is strikingly similar about these two seemingly different modalities is that of the alterations in self-referential processing regions of the brain.

The Default Mode Network, or the DMN, is a network of brain regions that primarily includes the medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, and the inferior parietal lobe, and is responsible for self-reference; referring to traits and descriptions of oneself, theory of mind; thinking about the thoughts of others and what they are thinking, mental imagery, emotion's of one's self, reflecting on one's emotional state and also what is called the autobiographical self.

Links:

Mind Body Plants

Mind Medicine Australia

Mind Medicine (Podcast)

Research noted in this podcast:

Psilocybin-assisted mindfulness training modulates self-consciousness and brain default mode network connectivity with lasting effects

Psychedelics, Meditation, and Self-Consciousness

Psilocybin-occasioned mystical-type experience in combination with meditation and other spiritual practices produces enduring positive changes in psychological functioning and in trait measures of prosocial attitudes and behaviors

Depression, Mindfulness, and Psilocybin: Possible Complementary Effects of Mindfulness Meditation and Psilocybin in the Treatment of Depression. A Review