Mushrooms claim to be the key to saving humanity
American mycologist
The Fungal Evangelist Who Would Save the Bees --Issue 90: Something Green --Nautilus
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How Psilocybin Can Save the Environment --Issue 90: Something Green --Nautilus
http://nautil.us/issue/90/something-green/how-psilocybin-can-save-the-environment
Mr. Sheldlake has been acquainted with Mr. Stamets since he was a teenager. At that time, severe stuttering (stuttering) disease is Mr. Sutamettsu that has been plagued with, but the magic mushrooms from experience that stuttering was healed by the ingestion of, seems to have adapted to be completely absorbed in the study of fungi.
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One day, when Sheldlake visits Stamets' research facility, named 'Starship Agaricon ' after 'Star Trek,' Stamets is just making mushroom-based reagents for bees. I was in the middle.
Bees support one-third of the world's agriculture by helping pollinate crops, but in recent years the number has dropped sharply due to colony collapse disorder , and one of the factors is said to be mites. Mites inhale the body fluids of honeybees and worsen their health, but especially honeybees, Varroa destructor, carry various deadly viral infections, which may lead to a drastic decrease in honeybees. ..
Stamets, who was working on research to use the power of mushrooms to solve this problem, focused on the fact that 'fungal extracts have antiviral properties' and added hoof fungus and ganoderma lucidum extracts to sugar water. Developed food. When I actually gave it to honeybees, the infection rate of Chidilebane virus , which deforms the wings of bees, was reduced to 1/79 , and the infection rate of Lake Sinai virus , which is widespread in Western honeybees, was 40,000. It has been reduced to 1/5000 .
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Since the virus is one of the problems that bees have, it is unknown whether Stamets' research will solve the colony collapse disorder, but the bees developed by Stamets and others are fed with mushroom-derived food. In the months following its announcement, the device 'Bee Mushroomed Feeder' was flooded with hundreds of thousands of orders, and production was temporarily unable to keep up.
Research is being conducted not only to help honeybees that support the ecosystem using mushrooms, but also to help improve the global environment more directly. According to the Sutamettsu he said, in the Washington Mason group, the causative agent of water pollution, such as E. coli, pesticides, nitrates and phosphorus that you are included in the waste water oyster mushroom project to be broken down into is are underway thing with.
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In this way, a method for removing contaminants by using the fungi, which means the mushroom from 'myco' and means to improve the environment, 'remediation', ' Mycoremediation it is called.' Mr. Stamets is also an advocate of ' Mycofiltration, ' a technology that filters Escherichia coli and heavy metals using the sponge-like fine mycelium of mushrooms.
Mr. Stamets believes that mushrooms can be used not only in the environmental field. In recent years, there have been reports of applications in the medical field, such as research results showing that psilocybin contained in magic mushrooms has the function of restarting brain circuits . Mr. Stamets, who is also paying attention to psilocybin, said in a lecture at the event held in 2017, 'Since psilocybin is effective for various symptoms such as Alzheimer's disease, it can be taken as easily as vitamin in the future. It should be like that. '
'Many people don't understand the importance of biodiversity,' Stametz said in an interview with Nautilus when asked about the appeal of mushrooms, saying he still trips twice a year with magic mushrooms as of 2020. It hurts, but once you have the experience of becoming one with nature, you will have deep wisdom and gratitude. '' If psilocybin is incorporated into our health care, many Einsteins will suffer from Alzheimer's disease every day. You can prevent it from being lost. '
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