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Paul Stamets
American
Scientist
Born:
Jul 17
,
1955
Health
Mushrooms
Nature
People
Years
You
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From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
Paul Stamets
Food
Matter
Plant
Mushrooms
Bacteria
Find
Never
Never Underestimate
New
Underestimate
Dead
Cleverness
The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research.
Paul Stamets
Opportunities
Research
Mushrooms
Offer
Where
Connection
Unique
Medical
Medical Research
Medicinal
Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served several purposes: killing contaminants, softening the flesh, and extracting the rich soluble polysaccharides.
Paul Stamets
Water
Rich
Tea
Mushrooms
Our
Several
Ancestors
Purposes
Soothing
Make
Flesh
Boiling
Served
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
People
Cause
Birds
Viruses
Bats
Earthquakes
Immune
Impact
Disasters
Massive
Also
Pigs
Fallout
Survivors
Oil
Harbor
Radioactive
Floods
Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.
Paul Stamets
Cancer
First
Mushrooms
Sold
Variety
Preventing
Studied
Were
Tasty
Stores
Commonly
Grocery
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
Health
Food
Nature
Game
Stress
Increase
Our
Systems
Immune
Support
Contaminated
Get
Diseases
Pollution
Assault
Need
Numbers
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
Few
Field
Mushroom
Our
Ancestors
Outcomes
Properties
Through
Remarkable
Observable
Edible
Candidates
Just
For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.
Paul Stamets
Old
Mushroom
Studied
Unusual
Sought
Years
Forests
North
North America
America
Native
Europe
Many
Growth
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
Health
Nature
Mushroom
Mushrooms
Our
Several
Ancestors
Miniature
Thousands
Factories
Combination
Talents
Identified
Scientists
Improve
Modern
Unique
Species
Pharmaceutical
Dozen
Life exists throughout the cosmos and is a consequence of matter in the universe.
Paul Stamets
Life
Matter
Universe
Cosmos
Throughout
Exists
Consequence
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
Lion
Mushroom
Mushrooms
Drawn
Compounds
Properties
Potential
Vast
Attention
Particular
Array
Provide
Notable
Researchers
Many
Medicinal
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
Long
Mushroom
Mushrooms
Wild
Once
Rarely
More
Colored
Stem
Stems
Smaller
However
Up
Forest
Than
Shoot
Often
Golden
Cap
Farmers
Caps
Grown
Twice
Wide
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
Lion
Benefits
Smart
First
Mushroom
Our
Safe
Edible
May
Aging
Appears
Population
Cognitive
Fungus
We evolved living in more sunlight than today. We make our own vitamin D when sunlight hits our skin cells. Many people living in the northern hemisphere, however, suffer from lower levels of vitamin D during the fall, winter and spring.
Paul Stamets
Today
Winter
People
Spring
Fall
Own
Skin
Living
Our
Evolved
Sunlight
More
Make
However
Than
Hits
Northern
Cells
Lower
Many
Hemisphere
Suffer
Levels
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
Nature
Mushrooms
Hidden
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Some
Potential
New
Majority
Although
Within
Still
Been
Years
Discovering
Modern
Them
Used
Originate
Medicines
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.
Paul Stamets
Habitat
Vanguard
Restoration
Grand
Planet
Species
Some people think I'm a mycological heretic, some people think I'm a mycological revolutionary, and some just think I'm crazy.
Paul Stamets
Crazy
People
Some People
Think
Some
Revolutionary
Just
Heretic
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