Functional & Medicinal Mushrooms, Nootropics, and Smart Drugs: Tero Isokauppila

Tero Isokauppila is the founder and President of Four Sigmatic, a natural superfoods company specialising in mushroom-based drink powders.

Tero grew up in Finland and later earned a degree in Chemistry and a Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition at Cornell University. In 2012, he founded Four Sigmatic, and is a subject matter expert on all things pertaining to mushrooms, superfoods, and natural health.

He was chosen as one of the world’s TOP 50 Food Activists by the Academy of Culinary Nutrition and has been featured in Vogue, Time, Forbes, W Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, BuzzFeed, and Bon Appétit, and has been a featured speaker at Summit Series, Wanderlust, WME-IMG, and Soho House.

He is also an author of several books like Healing Mushrooms: A Practical and Culinary Guide to Using Mushrooms for Whole Body Health and his newest book Healing Adaptogens: The Definitive Guide to Using Super Herbs and Mushrooms for Your Body’s Restoration, Defence, and Performance.

Join us as we explore:

  • The incredible power of mushrooms to not only heal cancer and autoimmune disease but improve gut health as well as returning the body back to its natural healing states due to its adaptogen effects.
  • What is an adaptogen, how they work and why they must be present in all of our daily lives.
  • The different types of functional and medicinal mushrooms and what they do for your body, brain, beauty, performance and mood.
  • Tero’s story of starting Four Sigmatic, and how it has brought the medicinal power of mushrooms to millions of people worldwide.
  • How mushrooms provide the nutrients and tools for the body to create resilience against stress and anxiety.
  • Why we all need to pay more attention to our mycobiome!
  • The king and queen of medicinal mushrooms.

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