[EPISODE 3]: MUSHROOMS as Medicine with Dr. Josh Levitt

On today's episode of What’s YOUR Medicine, we are headed out into the forest to explore the vast world beneath our feet, mushrooms! Now, the fungal kingdom is host to a plethora of species and genomes, each with there own medicinal (or in some cases harmful) properties.

Our Naturopathic Doctor guest today, Lindsay Chimileski, is here to guide us through each type of them, and how they can potentially help YOU in everyday life.We'll be exploring Edible mushrooms for cooking, medicinal ones for brain and immune system support, the Psychoactive, and finally the toxic ones to avoid.

So get comfortable, and keep listening, we've got a great show for you today.

[00:00] - Welcome! (and a gift for listeners)

[02:16] - Introduction to Mushrooms

[03:30] - A walk into the woods

[04:18]- A connected web beneath our feet

[09:38]- Geocaching and Letterboxing

[12:02]- Plant Blindness

[15:00] - Mushrooms found at the supermarket

[17:02]- A warning about Agaritine

[18:47]- Harvesting and Forage Baskets

[20:25]- Spore Prints

[24:10]- A story from school

[26:25]- Natural Medicine and Science

[27:56]- Cooking Mushrooms

[30:29]- Sponsor break

[30:52]- Medicinal Mushrooms

[31:48]-Lion's Mane

[36:37]- "Doctrine of Signatures"

[37:48]- Reishi

[44:52]- Artist Conk

[45:24]- Chaga

[49:28]- Oyster

[52:38]- A Controversial Issue... "Fruiting Bodies."

[57:34]- Psychoactive Mushrooms

[60:04]- Toxic Mushrooms

[60:06]- A Santa Claus mushroom????

[60:10]- How to get started

[60:13]- Wrapping it all up

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And you can find our guest Lindsay's Instagram,right here: https://www.instagram.com/thebotanicaldocta/

Along with her website, here: www.thebotanicaldocta.com

[EPISODE 2]: VIRUSES as Medicine with Dr. Josh Levitt and Paul Turner, PhD

Today's episode of What’s YOUR Medicine is all about VIRUSES… and how my guest Paul Turner of Yale, alongside his team, are flipping the script and harnessing them to kill even the most drug resistant bacteria known today!

I know, it sounds like science fiction, and most of us think of viruses as a bad thing (and they certainly can be!) But, Dr. Turner's pioneering work in the field is making that vision of using them to our benefit a reality, and he's here to talk about it, coming up!

So If combating bacteria with viruses as a means to help people get OUT of pain when their options have become limited... keep listening!

Natural Medicine For Arthritis with Dr. Josh Levitt

This episode of What’s YOUR Medicine is all about joint pain…and more importantly, how to get rid of it! There are millions of people with arthritis, osteoarthritis, degenerative joint disease, degenerative discs, and other painful joint problems...for which mainstream medicine has two main options: drugs and surgery.

But, there is lots of scientific evidence and decades of clinical experience that proves that joint pain can be fixed without drugs and without surgery. If you have trouble with your knees, hips, spine, shoulders, hands, or feet... this episode is for you!

[00:00] - Welcome! (and a gift for listeners)

[02:47] - Introduction to Natural Medicine for Arthritis

[03:20] - "Bone on Bone" and other painful things

[04:00]- Why mainstream medicine is so bad at joint pain

[06:30]- A crazy (and common) story.

[09:00]- An even crazier story about a pain in the neck!

[12:15] - Where I came from and how I got here.

[18:45]- The PAIN MATRIX

[20:00]- Injury

[22:45]- Inflammation

[25:55]- Pop Quiz!

[27:00]- Muscle Tension

[28:30]- Fibrosis- and a story about two meaty steaks!

[29:30]- Sponsor break

[30:00]- Different problems --> Same Solution?!

[33:30]- Food as medicine for joint pain

[36:45]- Lifestyle as medicine

[39:30]- This is AWESOME!

[40:50]- Supplements as medicine

[42:15]- My top 6 nutritional/herbal medicines for joint pain

[45:00]- Movement as medicine

[46:45]- The SURF protocol (Stretching exercises, Unlocking techniques, Resistance training, Functional movements)

[50:00]- Why didn't my doctor tell me about all this?

[51:00]- What's up next on What's YOUR Medicine?

Thanks so much for watching/listening! I'd love for you to follow this show on YouTube...you can do that here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJr7KrQTlpNEbEmvmbKyxGnGr3dYXK3Co&si=7drJEuCD5nHfK3pm

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