Rehmannia Dean Thomas – The Power of Taoist Tonic Herbalism, Mushrooms & How Modulating The 3 Treasures Can Improve Your Health!

Check out and purchase my individual health protocols here >> We had a fun conversation with Rehmannia Dean Thomas from Shaman Shack Herbs today and we really enjoyed what he's up to. Rehmannia is really into Taoist tonic herbalism. I personally think that herbs and in particular mushrooms are the missing food group. I've heard it said that the human body needs medicine or it will perish. It WILL get it one way or another. It'll either get it from the bitter alkaloids or even better from immune modulating mushrooms and herbs or from pharmaceutical medications. But either way, the human body cannot live without medicine of some kind. By now we all understand that drugs and medications are extremely damaging to the body. There is no such thing as "side effects" of drugs. This is a phrase made up by the pharmaceutical industry to make people think that these effects are not that big of a deal. Nothing could be further from the truth. I can't tell you to get off your medications that's something you'll have to work with your doctor on but personally I'm not a fan of what this industry is doing. You should see what they're doing with the chemotherapy drugs these days. It's sickening. This missing food group that you'll never see on the food pyramid is medicinal herbs and medicinal mushrooms. Like David Wolfe says you don't have to take the top 30 herbs or mushrooms, you just need to know what the top 5 are and take those. From the research that I've done the king of all mushrooms is Chaga and the queen is Reishi. They are the top 2 mushrooms on the planet and I believe everybody should be making teas, elixirs, decoctions and even tinctures with them on a daily basis. If you get really fancy you could even create a dual extraction from these mushrooms. In any event Rehmannia talks about how the triple treasures, chi (qi), jing and shen. We discussed how they're different and even how they relate to the 7 chakra systems of the body and how they correlate to the Ayurvedic doshas of the human body. We also talked about how to incorporate herbs and mushrooms into your diet and how to work with substances like reishi mushroom and how that can affect your shen. It's truly a lifetime of study. Perhaps the thing that I was most excited about was the herbal 10 week course he's put together at http://www.gateoflife.org. I think learning more about how to work with these herbs, what they do for the body and how to make them taste amazing with different recipes, is critical. We must have a knowledge and an understanding of why these are so great for our health and longevity. This is like vegetable juicing but on steroids. I highly suggest you learn more about herbs and how to use mushrooms to radically increase your immune system and improve your health. We hope you enjoy this interview with Rehmannia Dean Thomas and please don't forget to share this show with your friends using any of the social media links on this website! :) Show Notes For This Episode: *