#021 - The Rebel’s 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!
Timeline
4:31 - How Jenny thought about helping her dad with cancer
10:53 - The Endocannabinoid System (ECS) and how it works
14:06 - Difference between THC & CBD
15:04 - Why strains matter?
19:03 - The “Entourage Effect” & full-spectrum vs broad spectrum vs isolate
21:45 - Will you show positive on a drug test with CBD?
22:28 - CBD and cooking
25:02 - How to hack menstrual cramps
29:20 - How to know if the dosing is right
33:00 - How to determine how to pick a CBD product
33:40 - Jenny’s favorite brands
38:30 - The difference between ingestion, inhalation, tinctures, and topicals
41:14 - What is Rick Simpson Oil?
43:27 - How cannabis works in terms of fighting cancer
45:56 - Medicinal mushrooms and why they are effective
48:30 - Jenny’s favorite mushrooms
53:27 - What Jenny would do if she were diagnosed with cancer
Other Resources
Institute for Integrative Nutrition (Become a Health Coach like Jenny)
Superbals - Helped with Jenny’s anxiety and sleep
Lazarus Naturals A brand Jenny’s dad uses
Wildflower A brand Jenny’s dad uses
Charlotte’s Web Other reputable 3rd party tested brand
Mary’s Medicinals Jenny likes for topicals
Foria - CBD suppositories (how Jenny hacks menstrual cramps)
Recommended Books
Still Writing - great book for assistance with writing