021. Rebels Apothecary: The Healing Magic of Cannabis, CBD, & Medicinal Mushrooms - Jenny Sansouci

Jenny Sansouci is the author and writer of Rebels Apothecary: A Practical Guide To The Healing Magic Of Cannabis, CBD, and Mushrooms. I first discovered Jenny years ago, as she’s a health coach and thought leader in the wellness community, and the host of the extremely popular blog Healthy Crush.Jenny’s new book was not written because she has a fascination with cannabis and medicinal mushrooms. The book wrote itself when Jenny discovered her father was diagnosed in 2017 with Stage IV pancreatic cancer. For those of you that don’t know, that is essentially a death sentence. However, being a fearless health coach with years and years of knowledge, Jenny went deep, and began devouring everything she could about cancer, specifically pancreatic cancer. Over and over again, Jenny kept stumbling across cannabis, CBD, and medicinal mushrooms in her research. Jenny made suggestions to her father and he was totally onboard. One of the interesting things in our conversation, was I learned Jenny took an “additive” approach to her father’s cancer, versus subtracting or taking things out of his diet. In congruence with chemotherapy, Jenny’s father added cannabis, CBD, and medicinal mushrooms to help augment his recovery. Her father not only improved in terms of his cancer lessening (as shown on doctor’s visits and scans), but also his mood and appetite drastically improved, as well as eliminating his nausea. This type of approach with our clients or people we care for is a valuable lesson. Many times we want to put people on a “keto diet” and introduce fasting and all types of restrictions, which as we know can be very difficult on a person on top of all the stress they are experiencing. So this additive approach can be very effective, and was a huge lightbulb moment for me as a coach. This is an amazing episode; Jenny talks about the different strains of CBD and their effects, how to pick a CBD and why, how to cook with CBD/cannabis, how to hack menstrual cramps, her favorite brands, the most powerful medicinal mushrooms for cancer, and much more. Enjoy!Timeline4:31 - how Jenny thought about helping her dad with cancer10:53 - The Endocannabinoid System (ECS) and how it works14:06 - Difference between THC & CBD15:04 - Why strains matter?19:03 - The “Entourage Effect” & full-spectrum vs broad spectrum vs isolate21:45 - Will you show positive on a drug test with CBD?22:28 - CBD and cooking25:02 - How to hack menstrual cramps29:20 - How to know if the dosing is right33:00 - How to determine how to pick a CBD product33:40 - Jenny’s favorite brands38:30 - The difference between ingestion, inhalation, tinctures, and topicals41:14 - What is Rick Simpson Oil?43:27 - How cannabis works in terms of fighting cancer45:56 - Medicinal mushrooms and why they are effective48:30 - Jenny’s favorite mushrooms53:27 - What Jenny would do if she were diagnosed with cancerFor one on one life or health coaching, contact me at https://www.joelevancoaching.com