# MAHA Living Ep. 11: Medicinal Mushrooms

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327)
Published: 2026-05-28T01:30:20+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/maha-living-ep-11-medicinal-mushrooms/
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Jordan and Nate dive into one of Jordan's all time favorite subjects: medicinal mushrooms. Not the psychedelic kind, not the ones in your stir fry, but the powerhouse fungi that have been quietly ignored by Western medicine for centuries while Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions have leaned on them for thousands of years. The guys break down the heavy hitters: turkey tail, chaga, lion's mane, cordyceps, and reishi. They cover why you can't just toss a lion's mane into an omelet and expect results, why you need heat or alcohol extraction to actually unlock the bioactive compounds, and the wild fact that humans share up to 50 percent of our DNA with fungi. You'll hear Paul Stamets' story about putting his stage four mother on turkey tail capsules, why cordyceps may have helped the Chinese women's running team smash world records in 1993, how lion's mane can stimulate nerve regrowth where Western medicine throws up its hands, and why chaga has Jordan whispering about pineal glands and third eyes. They wrap with the three main ways to take them: tinctures, capsules, and powders. Get them in your body somehow.

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