HSW 78 – Coffee and Medicinal Mushrooms with Mason Taylor

Have you ever thought about adding mushrooms into your coffee?!  I know it sounds like an unlikely combination but the compounds found within medicinal mushrooms can actually provide adrenal gland and nervous system support, which is important for anyone working 24/7.

In this episode with Mason Taylor, founder of Super Feast, an Australian based company that supplies medicinal mushrooms and adaptogenic herbs, we discuss:

  • How adding mushrooms to our coffee can make it healthy!
  • What type of mushrooms does he use, and how do they work?
  • The compounds found in mushrooms that provide a therapeutic effect.
  • What are adaptogens, and how they support our nervous system, immune system and organ function.
  • How to rebuild our core energy using jing herbs.
  • Using reishi mushrooms as a ritual to assist with sleep.

Links mentioned on the podcast:

Super Feast website

How to make your coffee healthy

30 Day Jing Challenge to restore energy

HSW 23: Adrenal Fatigue and Insufficiency with Naturopath Jules Galloway.

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Healthy Shift Worker Episode 23:

Thanks to our crazy, sleep-deprived lifestyle the adrenal glands of shift workers, which are responsible for pumping out our stress hormones adrenalin and cortisol, are notorious for becoming burnt out.

This is because we’re quite literally “biologically stressed” from having to work 24/7.

Get ready for a super entertaining and informative podcast as Naturopath Jules Galloway, (AKA the “Queen of the Adrenals”) explains exactly what is adrenal fatigue, how we can test for it, along with some great lifestyle and nutritional recommendations that are going to help to reduce some of the debilitating effects.

For more info on Jules visit – http://julesgalloway.com/