Aging Quote by Paul Stamets

Lion's mane may be our first 'smart' mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

— Paul Stamets

Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms - such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake - are well-known for these…

— Paul Stamets

Lion's mane mushrooms are not your classic-looking cap-and-stem variety. These globular-shaped mushrooms sport cascading teeth-like spines rather than the more common gills.

— 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

Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but…

— William Alcott

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that…

— Paul Stamets

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

— Paul Stamets

Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that's why you giggle the first hour.

— Bill Hicks

“Due to their soft bodies and ephemeral nature, it is unlikely that biological evidence of mushrooms will even be discovered in the archaeological record.…

— John Rush

I'm obsessed with mushrooms, they're beautiful.

— Angela Scanlon

“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