Need to Know
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Who is this course for?Everyone -
Course length (start & watch when you want)1.15 hours of video content -
ExtrasLifetime access · Certificate of completion
Meet your course instructor
Robert Rogers | Ethnobotanist, Master Herbalist, Mushroom Mentor
Robert Dale Rogers has been an herbalist for over fifty years and is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alberta, where he is presently an assistant clinical professor in Family Medicine. He is also an adjunct professor in Graduate Studies at York University in Toronto, and presently teaches plant and mushroom medicine, aromatherapy and flower essences in the Earth Spirit Medicine faculty at the Northern Star College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Robert is past chair of the Alberta Natural Health Agricultural Network and Community Health Council of Capital Health. He is a Fellow of the International College of Nutrition, past chair of the North American Mycological Association, and previously on the editorial board of the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms. He regularly posts articles of interest in Fungi magazine. The author of 52 books on medicinal plants and fungi of the boreal forest, Robert authored the must-have book The Fungal Pharmacy: The Complete Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms and Lichens of North America. Another of his acclaimed books: A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle, was released in June 2015 by North Atlantic Books, and it documents the tenth generation passing down of over sixty traditional indigenous boreal plants and their medicinal benefit. Robert was honoured as an Herbal Elder of Canada in 2015. Today, Robert guest lectures and conducts walks throughout North America on plant and mushroom medicine, and continues to release must-have books on Mushrooms.
Course description
Join Medical Herbalist and Mushroom Expert Robert Rogers for a fascinating class about contemporary research on a variety of medicinal mushrooms including lion’s mane, reishi, chaga, cordyceps, and psilocybin species.
Learn about:
• The therapeutic uses of medicinal mushrooms;
• Recent human studies on Lion’s Man, Reishi, Chaga, Cordyceps, Turkey Tail, and Psilocybe species;
• The efficacy of fruiting body vs. myceliated grain;
• Compounds found in nearly all medicinal mushrooms, including chitin, beta-glucans, ergothioneine, vitamin D, triterpenes, etc;
• How to find credible information about medicinal mushrooms;
• Robert’s clinical experiences of working with medicinal mushrooms.