Episode 3

MUSHROOMS as Medicine

Published on: 18th October, 2023

[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

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

And let's hang out on Instagram! You can reach me here: https://www.instagram.com/drjoshlevitt/

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

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

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What's YOUR Medicine?
with Dr. Joshua Levitt
These days, when most people think about “medicine”, they think of doctors, surgeons, hospitals, pharmacies, and prescriptions. This might surprise you, but as a naturopathic doctor…I actually agree. Drugs and surgery ARE medicine for sure. But, medicine CAN and SHOULD be much much more than that. Food is medicine. Herbs are medicine. Movement is medicine. Prayer is medicine. Art, music, storytelling… there really is medicine everywhere…if you open yourself up to finding it.
On this show, I’ll be talking to experts in every one of those areas: the physicians, the surgeons, the scientists…but also the artists, the dreamers, and the healers. I’ll be talking to them about their medicine…with the goal of helping you find yours.


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Joshua Levitt

Whether it’s his depth of knowledge, wisdom of experience, down to earth professionalism, kindness and compassion, perpetual curiosity--Dr. Josh checks all the boxes that you could ever want in a physician...and in a podcast host. On this show, you'll quickly learn why he is widely known and admired for his medical expertise and his casual charismatic style.