Maitake can achieve humongous sizes, sometimes up to 50 pounds per specimen! Massive maitake can form annually from dying dendritic tree roots… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Nitric oxide production by immune cells is one of the key mechanisms that our bodies use to destroy diseased cells. Enhancement of… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
We evolved living in more sunlight than today. We make our own vitamin D when sunlight hits our skin cells. Many people… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms - such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake - are well-known… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function,… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
My team and I have discovered, over decades of study, that mushroom mycelium is a rich resource of new antimicrobial compounds, which work in… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
I believe nature is a force of good. Good is not only a concept, it is a spirit — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom. — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as 'the dancing mushroom.' According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Life exists throughout the cosmos and is a consequence of matter in the universe. — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
While reishi mushrooms have historically been prepared as teas or infusions, other modern preparations include capsules, tinctures, and fractionated extracts of mushrooms, mycelium, and… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
