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“All mushrooms are medicinal.”
Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner, biochemist, author and mushroom expert Martin Powell discusses all things mushrooms, from how extracts are produced, to the secondary metabolites of various species, to how mushrooms produce vitamin D and why you should always cook your mushrooms.
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COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
[00:58] Welcoming Martin Powell
[02:03] How Martin became interested in mycology and medicinal mushrooms
[04:53] Identifying the correct mushrooms
[10:40] All mushrooms are medicinal
[13:58] How extracts are created
[18:11] Active constituents of mushrooms
[22:31] Do different parts of the mushroom have different components?
[24:34] Lovastatin comes from fungi
[26:01] What secondary metabolites do we need to be interested in?
[31:25] The importance of cooking mushrooms
[35:48] Writing the Medicinal Mushroom books
[37:24] Eat more mushrooms
[39:52] Mushrooms and Vitamin D
[41:29] Grifola frondosa: maitake mushrooms
[42:55] Choosing a quality mushroom product
[46:56] Thanking Martin and final remarks
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