Jeff discusses mushrooms and mushroom supplements on the Optimal Performance Podcast with Ryan Munsey of Natural Stacks.
In it Jeff and Ryan discuss the following:
- what most people don't know about medicinal mushroom products
- why beta-glucans are a key quality measurement of any mushroom product
- how mushroom supplements are different than mushrooms as food
- how to test your mushroom product for the presence of starch
- why polysaccharides tests are completely meaningless
- the economics around mushroom growing and why U.S. companies can't grow mushrooms for use in supplements