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Hello on Kimberly King and welcome to the mother's market radio show, a show dedicated to the Truth, Beauty and Goodness of the human condition. On today's show, there's no substitute for a healthy sharp mind, and today we'll let you know how to keep your brain in tip-top shape, plus later we'll tell you what's going on around town.

But first up, as we age, our brains need added stimulation to keep them firing on all cylinders, and today we're going to discover new ways we can help our brain function here to help us is mushroom wisdom VP of education and research, Mark kale. Mark has been involved in the natural products industry for over 30 years, including retail manufacturing, formulating and private practice. You studied a variety of traditional healing approaches, including eastern and western herbalism, natural medicine, nutrition and shamanism. Mark brings an eclectic perspective to the conversation with an emphasis on education and a truly holistic orientation, and we welcome him to the mother's market radio show. Mark, how are you?

I'm doing great.

It's good to be here.

Thanks, it's great to have you. Why don't you fill our audience in a little bit on your mission and your work... We get to the show's topic.

Yeah, actually that's a good question. What my mission is... My mission is to re-orient. I think the way we look at health and healing, to move it away from really the healing process and bring the process to health, and I would say even take it further. I use a phrase called radiant health.

I think many of us settle for walking around in a fog, not living our optimal lives, not fulfilling our fullest physical and mental, and I would... Sopra cells and things.

So to me, it's about letting go a lot of the toxins to trash the burdens, the stagnation, opening things up, nourishing the body and spirit in such a way that we can really be the best... You know me, I can be, you can be the best you you can be. So my mission really is to get us to start looking at health and healing in a completely different manner, not waiting for the things to break down, not waiting for disease, not even focusing on disease, but focusing on how I can be the best me, and like that well, today we are talking about brain health until... Let's start by asking you, please tell us a little bit about the issues and the difficulties related to brain health.

Yeah, the brain is complicated in a number of different ways, one is it sits in this little protective black barrier called the blood-brain barrier, and it doesn't like a lot of things to get into, it is designed to protect it, it's got the guards up, so to get into the brain and to effect it is actually a fairly tricky process, and unfortunately, there are certain toxins that have been put out there, particularly the pesticides and things that we use in our yard just to kill bugs in our house, we use in our fields. They cross the blood-brain barrier and they're very toxic to this nervous system, and that's exactly what they're designed to do as far as the bugs and critters out there that they're trying to kill, what the brain is also a very complicated process because it's got billions upon billions upon billions of connections, there are all these little cells and each cell can have up to 10000 different connections, there are, I don't know, some like 100 different... 100 billion cells in our brain, each one with 10000 connections near Mahi, I don't even know what the math would be on that the interconnectedness of just 100 trillion or more interconnections that are going on in the brain.

So that makes it very, very difficult because it's so interactive, so connected just within itself, and that doesn't even include all the connections that it has to... Everything's going in the body. We now know there is a relationship between the good bacteria in our digestive tract and brain health, now we know there's a close correlation between cardiovascular health and brain health, there are cells in our brain called Glia cells, which they used to think were just kind of there they didn't have any purpose, and now we find out they're part of the immune system, particularly the Munster for the brain, so the brain is a very complicated, very interactive system, and obviously very affected by thoughts, what we do, choices we make on how we go about looking at things moods, those dramatically can affect our brain, depression actually increases inflammatory processes in our brain, anxiety, you can do the same thing, they can call us disconnection, they can call tangles in our brain, literally like nuts and happening in our brain. neurons can die, connections can become poor. You need to write neurotransmitters doing the right thing and then turn it off when they need to turn off, so there are a lot of process that are going on and the symbol factors, we just don't know a lot about the brains. Certainly neuroscientists get up there and talk for a while, but we know less than what we don't know, and that makes the only what the brain a very complicated process, and you're right, it is fascinating to see how do you untangle that brain and how to retrain the Arbor, I suppose. So I think this is a great topic. What are some of the supplements that may be helpful in maintaining brain health, there are no more things to do, gigas, probably the most popular and widely used one in this country, doing anything about Gino though, as Gino really is more of a cardiovascular herb than it is a brain herb, and the reason it's beneficial and supportive for the brain is because it increases and improves blood throat to the brain, so Gina's gonna work for people with the brain, if they have poor substandard blood flow to the brain, signs of that would be people tend have cold hands and cold feet, poor peripheral circulation, you're probably also then gonna have poor circulation to the brain, so Gino is not something that's gonna be particularly useful for most people unless they know they have that poor circuitry process. The other thing about getting to is it takes a while for it to work, it takes about a month or so really to get the benefits, I'm not trying to poo working because as a cardiovascular or it's incredible, it's great for that arterial health, which is really important for cardiovascular health and in the long run, for brain health, so it is good, but again, it's really for probably an older person without very good circulation, there's an IR-Betty Herb though, I would call it kind of the Indian Janata speak is called bacup. This is an IR Bachata, mean science of life. Traditional healing process has been going on in India for thousands of years, very old medicine, and bacup has long been used for the brain, lots of study supported at improving memory recall, just helping overall brain health and vitality, very safe to use. Good long-term tonic. We've talked before about the value of spices, Rosemary, incredible for the brain. Again, just smelling Rose Mary will open up your brain, help you with memory if anybody's gonna be studying or even reading for a very long period of time, keep a little Rosemary plant to Rosemary arable side, you can just take a whiff every now and then, and I'll wake up your brain.

Sage has been used throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region and other parts of the world. A great powerful brain tonic in a common space. Taree, powerful as far as this anti-inflammatory actions, and many of the things that cause the degradation in the brain are either caused by inflammation related to inflammatory process in the brain, so trick is very, very important for brain health, not necessarily a supplement, but I would include it in here because it's such a powerful. Food is blueberries. A couple of blueberries will do wonders, not just for your brain, but for cardiovascular health, heart health, cancer, preventative, but the flavonoids that are in blueberries are very, very useful, protective for the brain, and that's really... We need to reward it. We wanna protect our brain so that when we get the 65 or 75, we haven't degraded it, it's not been broken down, it hasn't been attacked by free radicals and inflammation over the years, so it's a very much a preventative remedy, and then there's a new one at least a new one to us here in the west called Green propolis is a particular type of propolis roles is what the bees line their hives with, this green propolis comes from the southeast corner, Brazil and has shown to have a very neuroprotective meaning, brain-protective neuron, protecting action to it.

So these are all things that I think are really useful and wonderful to use long-term to just protect the brain so it stays functioning properly, stays at peak health, it doesn't create lots of problems and issues and things for it, but then there are things you can to supplement the brain on a day-to-day basis, a seal, carnitine, positio, serine, GPC, these are all things that I nourish, the processes, and then there are transmitters, those chemicals that are responsible for communication with the brain. I think those are all really, really important.

And again, not necessarily a supplement, but you gotta manage your stress levels, so important for brain health, clarity of thought, memory, long-term brain health, find some way to reduce your stress levels, I'm a big fan of the power of breathing, learning to breathe from your diaphragm. If you learn to do that, you can lower your stress levels and one, two or three breasts, it's free, it's available to you at any time. You can be sitting in traffic here in Southern California, just take a couple of big dirham breasts and just relax and let all that stress go, but obviously there are lots of other lifestyle choices you can make that can help that.

Exercise, I say too, but yeah, I like that. Breathing of a 15-year-old son, and I keep saying, breathe, it's gonna be okay. But I know in Southern California with traffic and everything, it does, we all stress out.

When I've heard a new mushroom, it's called Lion's Mane, that has demonstrated some intriguing potential for brain health... What is that?

Yeah, lineman is a mushroom that probably most of us aren't familiar with, it was consumed the food in Asia where it grows naturally, it's a very unusual looking much, Rosie encourage everybody to go online, look up line is, man, I actually look up lines mushroom. 'cause you don't want a picture of a lot of pictures of lines, make you wanna look at lines in mushroom, it's a white spiny mushroom, it is edible as a seafood kind of flavor to it, it's fun to cook with it, if you ever get a chance to do that, okay.

But it's a traditional mushroom that's been used again as a food, but in traditional Chinese medicine, they use it as a chiton and she is life force energy. It's what animates us, it allows us to move to think, to process, to metabolize, that's what the Chinese called Chi.

So linesman was said to enhance that overall CHE, it was also really wonderful remedy to... For chronic digestive issues, so it's not for, Okay, I ate a little too much for lunch, I need to take a little... Line is, man, I'm gonna fix that.

It's not gonna work like that for that you... Something like digestive bitters, but for long-term people who have chronic issues with the digestive track linesman is a really wonderful traditional remedy for that digestive health over a long period of time. What happened now is for some reason, and I still can't figure out today, why some researcher decided, Hey, I wanna try Lion's Mane for brain health, and it was based on some research that occurred in 1983, researchers took a woman who had a full-blown... I'm sorry, full-blown dementia and Alzheimer's, and what they did is they actually pumped the substance called nerve growth factor, which is a naturally occurring chemical that our brain and central nervous system produces, is the repair mechanism to prepare a signal for us are a nervous system.

So they pump this nerve growth factor directly into the brain of a patient with albums with really full onset dementia, and what they found is that they were able to, for the first time, I think, reverse the development of Alzheimer's disease.

And tell me again, what did they pump it when they come to a nerve growth factor, or This is a naturally occurring something that the brain produces, just not necessarily enough of it to reach these levels, and when you get older, we may not be producing as much of it.

The problem with that is, first of all, nerve growth is never... Growth factor is very, very expensive. I think it runs something like 100000 a month if you wanna use it, so obviously, you can't really use it, it's not an affordable revenue, we're not gonna find it on the shelf and mothers or anything, so what they wanted to do is find something that would actually stimulate that nerve growth factor.

The other problem with pumping it into the brain is you have to drill a hole into the school, you gotta pump their growth factor directly into it, eventually that hole is gonna get infected and that infection will end up killing the person, so again, they needed to find something that would cross that blood-brain barrier, that would get it beyond the brain's protective barrier, get into the brain and stimulate nerve growth factor, and again, for some reason, some researcher just said, Hey, let's try this mushroom called Line S Main and see if it does this.

Loan, behold, that's what they found, they found that lion's mane is able to cross the blood-brain barrier, get into the brain and stimulate this nerve growth factor, which has this really profound impact as far as what happens with the brain, as far as how the brain ages and then as far as that buildup amyloid plaque, which is very, very important in the process.

Wow.

Oh my gosh, that's interesting. Wow, what we can talk about, we're gonna continue this conversation right now, we have to take a quick break, but stay with us more from Mark Taylor in just a moment.

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And now back to our interview with Mark Taylor, and we're talking about brain health, and this has been so interesting, Mark, we kind of left off talking about Lion's Mane mushrooms, let's talk about the research, it was actually a growing body of research have been done on it, to show that it actually has this effect in the body, it's one thing to do this lab study to a rat study show that actually Staats nerve growth factor, that it has these things in elaborating these non-clinical settings.

It's another thing to go out and actually do it and place in a clinical setting, use it on real people, using on people who have been diagnosed with dementia or showing signs of it. And that's one of the nice things about it. In the last few years have been five or six studies on lines Maine in a particular extraction of lines main called Amelia-33-99, which is much stronger, much more effective for IT, but initially the studies used line's main either in a soup and of all things, they made a cookie out of it. Lines man cookie. So I don't know what that would taste like, but it's a seafood cookie, I just a little kind of strange, but they found that when they gave it to people who were older, having some memory issues and things like that, but it basically enhance and improve their overall quality of life. Umm, the next thing was, I was to try to find something that would take it to the next level, and that's where they found a series of compounds in the Lion's Mane mushroom, one called Harrison and the other called actually am-Elon.

And these are the compounds that seem to be most biologically active and they develop the product called Melo and 3399, and they've now done, or we've now done three clinical trials on it for Alzheimer's and dementia, we see improvements in memory, mood, balance, perception, wandering was even studied in one of them, a quality of life, Functional Independence were all improved differently, and Functional Independence is basically... All those things we take for granted.

Knowing my truth, brush is my truth brush, and this is how I use it, my car keys are my car keys, how to time, I choose how to dress myself, all those types of things improve really dramatically when they were given the Amelia, really nice to have this natural remedy that is extraordinarily safe, long history of use in traditional Chinese medicine, that now has some really amazing and really promising research on it for brain health, prevention treatment. Memory, memory recall. I even like it. I think it has an overall memory and Hampton quality to it for anybody and everybody, we have not done any studies on it today, but I can say for myself, every time I take it, I'm a Le quicker, a little sharper. I can remember what was the name of that person or they... That show or who was in, whatever it was, those things just come back to me a lot quicker, and I'm aware of placebo effect, so I gave it to probably 30 or 40 people, all under the age of 40, M would have dementia, Alzheimer's at that point. And everybody said the same thing within the first one to three days, they just felt little sharper quicker, we're on the ball, so I think it has some potential for the general public as well, but really, really important for this disease, which you call Alzheimer's.

First and foremost, because we really don't have treatment for it, Western medicine can maybe slow it down a little bit, maybe help with quality of life a little bit, but even then it's really a shot in the dark whether it's gonna be effective or not, so to have a natural remedy that the clinical research is showing such extraordinarily promise for such a serious... In such a difficult to imbalance, I think is really, really important, and people need to think about this early rather than later, because Alzheimer's disease is not a disease that you catch us, not like a flu bug or anything like that. Studies are really clear that Alzheimer starts developing in the brain decades before, so 30, 40 years before it actually shows itself, Alzheimer's or related actions are happening in the brain. So again, this is definitely a case of the sooner you start taking this to better, if you know you're at high risk, if you run in the family, definitely do it because you know there is a genetic element to Alzheimer's and dementia. But in my mind, this is such a difficult, ugly, hard disease, once it gets fully manifested, to me, this is one of those things it's announced on prevention where the Pandits is an ounce, prevention is worth five tons of cure is because once it shows itself, once it rears its ugly head, it's extraordinarily difficult to treat, whether it's naturally or with pharmaceutical medicines, so in my mind, prevent it, do everything you possibly can, and I need a lot... 339 really fits into that. quite promising, ly, you answered a couple of my questions as you were speaking, and that is, at what point... Yes. Do you start taking it? If it does run in your family and announce a prevention is worth, that cures, are there any side effects to this... It is an herb. Right, right.

Yeah, it's a mushroom. It's very safe, it's a food, again, that's been consumed for a very, very long time, we know of no negative side effects, it's a very, very, very mild blood thinner, so if someone is on blood Penny medications, just be aware, be attentive to that, but it's not nearly as blood then in as things like Gino or Vitamin C and things are so it tends to be extraordinarily safe, okay.

The one caveat would add is Lion's Mane the mushroom, as I talked about before, because it's a digestive CHE enhancer because it increases our digestive system, you don't wanna take it at the same time you're taking a pharmaceutical, 'cause it may increase absorption or those pharmaceuticals that being said, you do wanna take it with your natural remedies because it may enhance the absorption of those, and those are things you do on a hamster to... So just be careful what you take it with, okay. And make sure you're talking to somebody while you're doing that...

Wow, this is great information. So you've talked a little bit about the research on the 3399.How long has it been around?

Yeah, well, the lines men much has been around a long time as a food medicinally though this is a fairly new medicinal substance, particularly as it relates to the brain, one of the intro stories with it, and I think kind of a sad story that's associated with it, apparently, a pharmaceutical company got interested in linesman a couple of decades ago for possible use with Alzheimer's and dementia, apparently they did a ton of research, show some real positive results with it. Well, what do they need to do? They need to create some sort of synthetic version that they can patent and they can only have... And they couldn't come up with anything that was as powerful as the lions man and the Amelia product, so they just basically dumped all their research, they just locked it away, they won't let anybody have it, and this is something that they knew for several decades and to me, it's kind of shameful that you have this research out there and available, it could have a profound impact on people's lives, but you don't wanna hand it out because you can't commercialize it in a suitable way, you have it... Why not share it?

Right, but the research on the brain really is over the last eight to 10 years, so it's a really new process, new discoveries, and we're finding really new and intriguing things about it on a yearly basis, so beyond just an... Just Alzheimer's and dementia.

The other actions that the Lion's Mane mushrooms have demonstrated his son sounds like another super... Just the super food, a super... Absolutely, and this is where we're discovering new things because they're starting to explore other avenues, and there have been now two studies on it for sleep apnea, on improvements of overall sleep quality, showing oxygen levels stay more consistent, showing that they wake up fewer times.

I believe it not in the study, they actually measured snoring, the number of times you snore and the volume of the snoring... I can't imagine someone is sitting around all night watching a graph of someone's storing, but that's what they did and they found that the melon 33-99... And again, I wanna emphasize, it's the Melo E-33-99, not just a simple lions man that is having these... That is being used in these clinical studies showing these benefits and having these effects, but it had a really profound impact on sleep apnea, and the sleep apnea is much more common, much more widespread than I thought, it could be much more for fondly impact. And I think most people think sleep apnea, so you snort a little bit, that type of thing, but literally you're talking about cutting off oxygen to your brain for periods of time, which can be deadly sleep apnea up in so kill us, but then interferes with overall health interferes with the brain function, overall energy levels, immune function, so sleep apnea has a far-reaching impact on the body, the newest research though, is research that... Literally, I get goose bumps when I actually see it. We've now done a number of case studies with schizophrenic using the amyloid, in fact, Expo West, we had a researcher come over from Japan who was a researcher who worked with these individuals and Usama o339 for schizophrenic. And just one case study. A mentioned example. This is a young man, I was young at the time. He was diagnosed, I think around the age of 18, 35 years, he lived his life as a schizophrenic, hearing voices, seeing things, not able to function, not able to interact, sleeping in a good part of the day. He was drinking something like two and a half, three gals of water day, it was kind of his addictive behavior, just really no life... Really never left his room. Barely left his bed. Just a dreadful existence, and this researcher put him on the Amala and literally in the matter of two months, he started getting active, started getting motivated and started looking forward to the day, I started interacting and started going to the community center. Just an amazing, amazing story. And I saw an interview with him, and when you see him interview, it's incredible, he's animated, he's making jokes, and he's talking about helpful fondly, this was impacting on his life, but if you saw him... Even though he's speaking in Japanese, you don't know what... I need to know what he's saying. Because he's just alive. He's involved, he's looking forward to tomorrow. There are things he wants to do, one amazing, powerful, powerful gift they gave to him, and again, who would have thought this little simple edible mushroom would have an impact again on a really serious disorder, Alzheimer's dementia, not really treatable schizophrenia. They don't really treat it, particularly while some of the medications for skits or for any literally can kill you, there's actually a disease named after the side effects that are associated with the drugs that are used to treat schizophrenia, so the options out there are not particularly good and to have something that's extraordinarily safe and work in a very quick manner to me is just amazing, and he's now talked a of other psychiatrists to start using it. So we now have 10 case studies, all confirming amazing benefits. In this case was schizophrenic, and now a handful or so with people with varying degrees of anxiety and depression as well, our brains are so fascinating, and so it's almost as like the awakening where this schizophrenic person was in another world in a fog, and then all of a sudden with this amla, it just woke him up in a way.

But our brains, it must be so fascinating with all kinds of... With the Alzheimer's, with the dementia, with, I don't know. With the migraine studies too, I don't know if it's touched yet, not anything with migraines, yet migraines are a slight different situation 'cause they're caused by so many different things, stress migraines, some things are, I think, set off by foods. They are inflammatory processes. Certainly, I think it would be a useful remedy for people to use over long run, 'cause while we think of migraine just associated with the pain, but if that pain is going on, there's other things that are happening in the brain, particularly inflammation, which is damaging, which is messing up the works in the brain, so anything we can do when there's any sort of brain damage, I think that's really useful, also physical traumas where there's nerve damage associated with it. We hear a lot about football players and brain injuries, I think this would be an incredible remedy for football players, they get on... Anybody who's been a car accident at Expo West, I talked to a number of people who had had falls or banged into something that serious concussions, definitely then a wonderful and promising remedy in that regard.

I've used it with a couple of people who have had peripheral nerve damage either from surgeries or injuries, and Watts a slow process, they see a gradual improvement over time, one case study or one specific individual had had a nerve separate in His hand, and doctors basically said Hey, learn to write with your other hand. There's nothing we can do about it. It's never gonna get any better. He went on the Amala in the space of about six to eight months. He's now writing and doing most of what he could have done before with this, and so any sort of nerve injury, a nerve trauma, I think it shows some promise there as well.

Wow. Well, very, This is promising information and I think all around... I think we have a lot to look forward to.

Thank you very much for your time, Mark, and some great advice. And again, we appreciate your time. Get more information with Mark and on his website, mushroom wisdom dot com. And what did you say your the... There's another website called bio update dot org, which has a bunch of medicinal mushroom research, and then my personal website is path, the radiant health dot com, and I write on basically radiant health and health and Eli in general.

Perfect. Well, you can learn more about all of those. Thank you for sharing today, and we look forward to having you on to our next visit, Hankyu.

Always a pleasure.

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