Delicious, Deadly and Mind-Expanding Mushrooms with Paul Stamets | Body of Wonder podcast

Paul Stamets and Andrew Weil have been enamored with wild mushrooms for decades -- and for good reason. Mushrooms have the potential to be delicious, deadly, and even mind-expanding. Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of vast underground mycelial (or fungal) networks that inhabit every soil on earth.

Our guest is Paul Stamets, mycologist, medical researcher, and author, who has dedicated his life to the scientific discoveries and applications of mushroom’s superpowers. Paul has performed novel research in many fields including medicine, biosecurity, and toxic environment restoration.

In this episode, Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Victoria Maizes speak with Paul about how certain mushroom species can improve health. Paul shares his research in immunology and the promising response some fungi strains may have against devastating viruses that harm bees, livestock, and humans. We learn some surprising practical tips, like why you may not want to eat the common button mushrooms found in grocery stores. We also discuss the recent research behind psilocybin or “magic mushrooms” in mental health disorders.

Body of Wonder is hosted by Dr. Victoria Maizes and Dr. Weil, and produced by the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. View other Body of Wonder episodes here: https://azcim.org/podcast

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Provided by the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. https://awcim.arizona.edu/

In the new series, Body of Wonder, Dr. Weil and internationally recognized integrative leader, author, and women’s health expert, Dr. Victoria Maizes will discuss integrative medicine with thought-provoking researchers, authors, and doctors. For two decades, Weil and Maizes have led a training program at the University of Arizona. Today, 2,000 healthcare practitioners have completed the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine and continue to apply the knowledge in their care of patients across the world, develop clinical research, author medical textbooks, and more.

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