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Feed Your Head

2010

What causes mental illness? Are we, indeed, what we eat? Psychiatrists Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond met in Saskatchewan in 1951, and embarked on a quest to find what psychiatry said didn't exist: a cure for schizophrenia. Hoffer and Osmond set out to prove that the symptoms of schizophrenia could be controlled with healthy, unprocessed food and large doses of vitamins. 60 years later, it looks like they may have been right.

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The Key to Fighting Future Pandemics? Old-Growth Forests, Says Mushroom Guru Paul Stamets

“When we cut down the old-growth forests, we are potentially losing genomic libraries that could have a strain of fungi that could have enormous implications for human biosecurity, and moreover, habitat health,” says mycologist Paul Stamets.

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The Steve Irwin of Mushrooms: Paul Stamets Works to Save Rare Ancient Fungus to Protect Us From Pandemics

Now, the famous mushroom scientist wants to create a research station on a remote island to protect old-growth forests containing a rare type of ancient fungus which he believes could protect people against COVID-19, or even future pandemics.

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Paul Stamets on Mushrooms He Would Recommend to Actively Include in Permaculture Plots

Part VI of Paul Stamets interview with Daniel Wahl Paul offers a series of examples of mushrooms that have traditionally been cultivated for their healing properties. He speaks about the Earth based knowledge of medicine women of the past who supported us during our evolutionary journey.

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Deep Dive: Fomitopsis Officinalis Agarikon

Our habitats provide us with innate immunity. . As habitats are destroyed, zoonotic diseases can emanate from stressed ecosystems to us. .

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Paul Stamets - Q&A at TEDMED 2011

The mushroom researcher answers questions about the beginnings of fungi science and how mushrooms and mycelium are helpful to maintaining human health and habitats.

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Dear Mother Mycelium with Paul Stamets

This week on Semaine, meet Paul Stamets. Mould has saved us once, and could do so again. Paul knows this more than any. The godfather of fungi, his three decades in mycology trace a search that dates back 650 million years (Paul loves to deadpan that fungi are “our ancestors”).

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Mushrooms as Medicine with Paul Stamets at Exponential Medicine

Leading mycologist Paul Stamets shares his work exploring the diverse role medicinal mushrooms may have in activating our immune systems and helping treat cancer, to new data supporting the role of fungi in biosecurity and the health of the bees that pollinate our planet.

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Diet and Nutrition