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The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research.
- Paul Stamets
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Chaga mycelium is relatively easy to grow by using methods already practiced elsewhere in the mushroom industry. Its mycelium is initially an off-whitish color, deepening with age.
- Paul Stamets
#Age
#Color
#Easy
#Grow
#Industry
Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms - such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake - are well-known for these properties, but the lion's mane mushroom, in particular, has drawn the attention of researchers for its notable nerve-regenerative properties.
- Paul Stamets
#Attention
#Lion
#Mushrooms
#Potential
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.
- Paul Stamets
#Ancestors
#Health
#Nature
#Unique
I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react to change, and collectively have the long-term health of the host environment in mind.
- Paul Stamets
#Believe
#Change
#Health
#Mind
#Nature
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.
- Paul Stamets
#Death
#Health
#Impact
#Oil
#People
Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.
- Paul Stamets
#Ancestors
#Field
#Remarkable
#Through
Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.
- Paul Stamets
#Brain
#Growth
#Immune
#Mushrooms
#Nerve
Lion's mane mushrooms are not your classic-looking cap-and-stem variety. These globular-shaped mushrooms sport cascading teeth-like spines rather than the more common gills.
- Paul Stamets
#Lion
#More
#Mushrooms
#Variety
#Your
Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as 'the dancing mushroom.' According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.
- Paul Stamets
#Celebrate
#Discovery
#Group
#Legend
Turkey tail mushrooms have been used to treat various maladies for hundreds of years in Asia, Europe, and by indigenous peoples in North America. Records of turkey tail brewed as medicinal tea date from the early 15th century, during the Ming Dynasty in China.
- Paul Stamets
#America
#Europe
#Indigenous
#Tea
#Treat
If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.
- Paul Stamets
#Eating
#Know
#Think
#Twice
#Where
The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are still discovering new potential medicines hidden within them.
- Paul Stamets
#Hidden
#Majority
#Nature
#New
#Potential
In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once.
- Paul Stamets
#Cap
#Golden
#Long
#Mushrooms
#Wild
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.
- Paul Stamets
#Found
#Like
#Looks
#Mushrooms
#See
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
- Paul Stamets
#Dead
#Food
#Never Underestimate
#Plant
Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun.
- Paul Stamets
#Friendly
#Mushrooms
#Own
#Summer
#Sun
Lion's mane may be our first 'smart' mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.
- Paul Stamets
#Aging
#First
#Lion
#Safe
#Smart
Life exists throughout the cosmos and is a consequence of matter in the universe.
- Paul Stamets
#Cosmos
#Exists
#Life
#Matter
#Universe
Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.
- Paul Stamets
#Environmental
#Health
#Reputation
#Stand
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.
- Paul Stamets
#Grand
#Habitat
#Planet
#Restoration
Today, reishi stands out as one the most valuable of all polypore mushrooms in nature for the benefit of our health. Many naturopaths and doctors prefer organically-grown reishi from pristine environments because they are more pure.
- Paul Stamets
#Health
#Mushrooms
#Nature
#Pure
#Today
Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase.
- Paul Stamets
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#Game
#Health
#Nature
#Support
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