Medicinal Uses of Mushrooms with Jeff Chilton
MEDICINAL USES OF MUSHROOMS WITH JEFF CHILTON
Our guest on this episode of The Live Well Podcast, Jeff Chilton, was SO much fun to talk to! Jeff is one of the original people who brought medicinal mushrooms to the US market and is a trailblazer in the field. He is a wealth of knowledge and his passion about the medicinal and nutritional benefits of mushrooms is so contagious!
I loved speaking with Jeff because he really knows his stuff. He studied ethnomycology at the University of Washington in the late 1960s and started working on a commercial mushroom farm in Washington in 1973. In the late seventies, he was a founder of Mycomedia, which held 4 mushroom conferences in the Pacific Northwest. These educational conferences brought together educators and experts in mushroom identification, ethnomycology, and mushroom cultivation. During this period Jeff co-authored the highly acclaimed book, The Mushroom Cultivator, which was published in 1983. In the 1980’s he operated a mushroom spawn business, and in 1989 he started Nammex, a business that introduced medicinal mushrooms to the US nutritional supplement industry. Jeff traveled extensively in China during the 1990’s, attending conferences and visiting research facilities and mushroom farms. In 1997 he organized the first organic mushroom production seminar in China. Jeff’s company, Nammex was the first to offer a complete line of Certified Organic mushroom extracts to the US nutritional supplement industry.
Jeff now works with his son cultivating and delivering high-grade mushroom supplements at their company, Real Mushrooms.
During the episode, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the nutritional benefits and medicinal uses of mushrooms from someone who has spent their life studying this information. We also discuss things you should think about when you're choosing a mushroom supplement or adding them to your cooking or recipes. Enjoy!
Learn more by visiting:
Nammex: www.nammex.com
Real Mushrooms: www.realmushrooms.com
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SHOW NOTES:
0:00 - Introduction
2:44 - Let's talk about Jeff and his background
3:15 - Jeff's field of study
4:06 - Jeff's first job
5:13 - Mushroom hunting
6:26 - Every mushroom is different
7:27 - Nutritional benefits
8:05 - What Jeff calls mushroom
11:13 - Mushroom diseases
12:03 - What does "button" mean?
14:09 - Mushroom tips
16:58 - Medicinal uses
18:05 - What really is a mushroom?
18:18 - How do they grow?
25:15 - What are Beta-glucans?
26:26 - What happens when we ingest beta-glucans?
27:40 - Mushrooms as preventive medicine
31:38 - Let’s talk about alpha-glucans
34:10 - How Jeff’s study exposed how companies sell “mushroom” products
35:14 - The cool thing about ergosterol
36:10 - Vitamin D2 and D3
37:46 - Mushroom D2 for sale as a plant-based alternative
38:37 - Jeff’s favorite way to ingest mushrooms
38:53 - Tea or water extraction
41:22 - What Jeff suggests to people when it comes to mushroom intake
45:02 - What you need to check before buying mushroom supplements
51:05 - Where to find Jeff and his products
Nammex: www.nammex.com
Real Mushrooms: www.realmushrooms.com
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