Age Quote by Paul Stamets

Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom.

— Paul Stamets

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

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

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

— Janet Erskine Stuart

If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.

— Paul Stamets

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

— George Polya

“The growth patterns of mushrooms are difficult to view since they come and go so quickly, appearing and disappearing overnight as if by magic.…

— John Rush

From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!

— Paul Stamets

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

Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional…

— Paul Stamets

“The most common and least expensive mushrooms—white button mushrooms—showed these strong benefits. If that’s not enough great news about mushrooms, there’s more.”

— Joel Fuhrman

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

— Tom Colicchio