How to Enhance Your Immunity, Regain A Sense of Calm And Boost Neurogenesis Using Medicinal Mushrooms With Neil Thenier

In this episode, all about mushrooms, Angela talks with Neil Thenier founder of Wild Kingdom Extracts and mushroom forager. They discuss the medicinal properties of mushrooms, how they can be used to help you relax and boost your immune system. Neil shares great content on the properties of individual mushroom varieties and how they can support and boost functions in the body. Neil also explains the role of pine pollen to modulate and bring balance along with how mushroom blends can be used regularly to maintain health and modulate the body.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Mushrooms were the gateway for me in understanding how to positively interact with the ecosystem and be a part of it rather than just showing up and taking from a place Mushrooms work really well with other homoeopathic medicines. Mushrooms have a synergetic effect when taken together. Chaga mushrooms are great anti-inflammatory and full of anti-oxidants.   Mushrooms don’t have subtle flavours so beginning slowly and building can be the best way to start taking them. Reishi mushrooms have a long history in Chinese medicine and is known for its properties supporting longevity. You can take Reishi extract at night time to aid good sleep Lion’s Mane mushrooms have been proven to improve REM sleep and there is positive research on the benefits of taking Lion’s Mane extract. It’s important to track yourself and how you are feeling when taking any mushroom extracts. Pine pollen can modulate testosterone in both men and women, it is rich in naturally occurring DHA. It can modulate according to what the body needs restoring balance. In the same way, mushrooms can help us they also help the environments they grow in. If you open yourself to the ecosystem then you can access your own ecosystem more fully.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Mushrooms are still very new in the Western World’ ‘Turkey tail is an immune-supporting mushroom’ ‘Mushrooms have plant intelligence that regulates what’s going on in the body’   VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization High Performance website  Wild Kingdom Extracts   ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster   Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group