Mushrooms for Health
What you'll learn
- Choose the right mushroom to supplement your healthcare program.
Requirements
- A basic understanding of how the body functions will be helpful in this course.
Description
Mushroom Madness is sweeping the nation. In this course you will begin to learn why so many people are excited about much of the new research being done with fungi. Learn everything from the life cycle of basic mushrooms to the medicinal qualities of Shiitake mushrooms to how mushrooms are being used to save the world!
This info will:
- Help you improve your health
- Encourage you to be more confident about an often misunderstood or even feared part of nature
- Allow you to impress your friends, peers, and family with astonishing facts
In this course you will learn about all of the following:
- What is a Mushroom
- The parts of a mushroom
- The life cycle of a mushroom
- The types of mushrooms
- Medicinal benefits of the following mushrooms
- Agarikon
- Chaga
- Cordyceps
- Lion's Mane
- Maitake
- Portobello
- Reishi
- Shiitake
- Turkey tail
- Plus many other fun and amazing facts about mushrooms
As an independent mycologist, I have learned many exciting things about mushrooms and the fungi kingdom. Since I'm also a certified herbalist, my main interest has always been their healing benefits.
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Who this course is for:
- Anyone curious about the benefits of mushrooms.
Course content
Medicinal Mushrooms Introduction4 lectures • 14min
- IntroductionPreview02:04
- What is a Mushroom?Preview02:36
- The Life Cycle of MushroomsPreview03:14
- The Types of Mushrooms?Preview05:55
Getting into the specifics of a few different mushrooms10 lectures • 53min
Other fun and very useful mushroom knowledge4 lectures • 8min
Instructor
![Derek Weaver](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 69 Reviews
- 238 Students
- 2 Courses
Derek Weaver is a certified Herbalist through the School of Natural Healing, and has been working with health food store clientele for 9 years with great success.
His loss of health insurance after college led him in search of another viable solution to healthcare. After many years of researching, a new powerful passion developed around natural modalities of healing which further propelled the desire to understand the human body, nature, and existence in general.
Countless individuals seek his guidance every week at the well known Good Earth Natural Food store in Indianapolis, IN.