We’re talking mushrooms with mushroom legend, Jeff Chilton. Jeff has spent close to 50 years in the mushroom industry and is a true wealth of knowledge when it comes to fungi. Jeff and I discuss medicinal mushrooms, edible mushrooms, magic mushrooms and what to specifically look for when sourcing mushrooms.
About Jeff
Jeff Chilton studied Ethno-mycology at the University of Washington in the late sixties and in 1973
began a 10 year career as a large scale commercial mushroom grower. Jeff is the co-author of The
Mushroom Cultivator, published in 1983. In 1989 Jeff established Nammex, the first company to
supply medicinal mushroom extracts to the Nutritional Supplement industry. In 1997 he organized
the first organic certification workshop for mushroom production in China.
Jeff is a founding member of the World Society for Mushroom Biology and Mushroom Products in
1994 and a Member of the International Society for Mushroom Science. Nammex extracts are
used by many supplement and food companies and are noted for their high quality based on
scientific analysis of the active compounds.
- Ethnomycology
- Find Jeff at Nammex.com
- Most mushrooms in US circulation come from China
- Mycelium grain vs Fruiting Bodies
- Beta-Glucans vs Alpha Glucan (starches) = Mushroom Quality
- Higher beta-glucan = Better Mushroom product
- The gut has beta gluten receptors that translate their benefits
- Reishi and Turkey Tail have the highest amounts of Beta Glucans
- Triterpenoids in Reishi
- Lion’s Mane
- Medicinal vs Edible Mushrooms
- Iodine Test to tell if you’ve got good product (36 mins)
- Psilocybin Mushrooms
