Mushrooms for Health and Performance with Tero Isokauppila
Tero Isokauppila is the mushroom guy. The founder of Four Sigmatic, he grew up foraging for mushrooms and other wild fruits and vegetables on a farm that’s been in his family since the 1600s. It’s his mission to bring the ancient wisdom he’s gathered over the years to the modern age in accessible, enjoyable ways, and he’s doing just that with life-enhancing products ranging from plant-based proteins to mushroom coffees.
We finally found time to sit down and chat about Tero’s unconventional upbringing, the story behind Four Sigmatic, and a variety of applications for different mushrooms in the fitness and nutrition space. Tero is a remarkable storyteller—you can just picture him running free on his farm as he tells the story of how he learned the value of natural medicine and found a way to share it with a global community.
The line between work and fun when you do what you love (7:00)
Tero’s naturalist upbringing (12:30)
Predicting the trends in nutrition (16:30)
The path to Four Sigmatic profitability, and how Tero chose mushrooms as a product (19:00)
How breathing impacts your VO2 max and your baseline (26:00)
The rule of three, and the relationship between volume and intensity (30:20)
Buckets of Chinese herbs, and which ones help athletes (36:30)
Why is reishi so awesome? (40:30)
Want to look good? Focus on longevity (45:00)
Tero rants about marathons (48:00)
What Emilia’s like on cordyceps and how Tero would train for a marathon (55:45)
The carnivore diet controversy (1:00:00)
Lion’s mane vs. other nootropics (1:06:30)
The immunity stack for traveling in the time of coronavirus (1:10:00)
In This Episode
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Quicksilver Scientific’s QuintEssential Amps
Where to Find Tero
Facebook | Instagram | Website | Four Sigmatic
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