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

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

Related links:

The Sarasota Airbnb we talk about in the opening

Raw Elements <== 10% off all Raw Elements products - Apply the code TUHP at checkout (free shipping over $100)

Sunwarrior <== 20% off all Sunwarrior products & free shipping over $50 (US only)

Four Sigmatic's website <== 15% off all shrooms (free shipping over $100)

Follow Tero Isokauppila on Instagram

Listen to Tero Isokauppila previously on TUHP (episode #15)

Listen to Meghan Telpner previously on TUHP (episode #91 & #25)

Listen to Josh Gitalis previously on TUHP (episode #80 & #4)

Tim Ferriss (books)

Shawn Stevenson - Sleep Smarter (book)

Related episodes:

272: Tero Isokauppila – The True Origin Of Christmas

241: Dr. Aviva Romm – The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution • Permission To Pause • Embracing Adaptogens

225: Focus Friday – Understanding Adaptogens

180: Julie Daniluk – Performance Enhancement • Your Adrenals Love Sea Salt • Stimulants vs. Adaptogens

113: Joy Coelho & Jay Denman – JingSlingers • Tonic Herbs vs Adaptogens • The Ultimate Sleep Inducing Elixir

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