In today's episode, I speak with Professor John McGrath a psychiatrist who has been interested in discovering the causes of serious mental illness.

He is director of the Queensland Center for Mental Health Research and Professor at the Queensland Brain Institute. He is one of Australia's most recognized psychiatric researchers and was awarded the John Cade Fellowship by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council.

In 2016, John McGrath was awarded a Niels Bohr Professorship at the National Research Foundation of Denmark. Internationally, he is known for his innovative research into mental health factor epidemiology, and his ability to exploit findings from epidemiology to discover neuroscience.

We talk about:

More than 20 years of experience in research on mental disorders

What is Schizophrenia?

Symptoms of Schizophrenia

Panic Disorder and Schizophrenia

Marijuana and increased risk of schizophrenia

44% increase with low vitamin D

Change personality?

The connection between dopamine and schizophrenia

D Vitamin Dosage

Personality traits and mental illnesses

Inheritance and or environment

Michael Holick

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Can one improve certain conditions of cancer using diet and fasting? In this episode, Thomas Seyfried, a cancer researcher and professor of biology at Boston College, discusses a controversial view of cancer as a mitochondrial metabolic disease.

We talk about::

Cancer is not genetic

What have they found out?

How does their method work in practice?

How long should one fast?

Is this something everyone should do?

With more

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Can mushrooms help with stress, colds and creative thoughts as well as help bees toward an ever-increasing epidemic? Paul Stamets is one of the world's foremost in fungal research and has a total of 18 patents within the use of different types of fungi.

Paul has won numerous awards and his person is also a role in Star Trek: Discovery! I could write paragraph after paragraph about everything this man has done, but I choose to write a little about how his lectures at TED and at the Colosseum have influenced how I think about fungi.

I have always thought of mushrooms as either something I have in the food or have to avoid as dangerous in the forest. That a fungus could help against "common" diseases was completely new to me and that at the same time it can help bees from living 4 days to 9 days was completely unknown!

Can really a fungus I take for granted and part of nature be a part of an ever increasing environmental problem and can it really help me when I need it? After listening to Paul, I am in any case convinced that I will become more familiar with mushrooms and at the same time he had a great impact on my new podcast project on the environment, sustainability and innovation :)

We talk about:

Interest in mushrooms at 5 year old

The forbidden fruit

100 employees

paradigm shift

Magic mushrooms (Psilocybin) once or twice a year

A leader who is strong but kind

The massive bee death and how it can be saved

18 patents

Pompous and selfish

Had never happened without the use of Psilocybin

Fungus against colds or flu

Bootstrap mushrooms

Mushrooms against stress Lionsmane

Mushroomreference

Fungi.com

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