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2:34 Recycling. Think fungi, the decomposers of nature.
4:33 Fungus kingdom 6x more than plants, over 1.5M species
5:18 The fungi, are present in every birth and every death
6:04 Do I know enough to eat this mushroom?
7:35 Fungi are the digestive tracks of the forest
8:06 Saprobes the yeasts and molds used Cheese, beer, wine, bread, bourbon, penicillin
8:20 Saprobes recycle oil, petroleum waste, create life
10:05 Mushroom and mycelium distinction
10:30 Mycelium the communicating web of the forest
11:35 Trees feed and care for one another using mycelium
13:35 Paul Stamets an amateur’s beginnings
15:59 Fungi life began 4.5B years ago, from the stars
17:29 Fungi inherited the earth
18:05 Humans are descendants of mycelium
21:50 Fungi stabilize carbon in soil, sustain life
24:57 Stoned ape hypothesis – Psilocybin mushrooms
33:42 Lingzhi or Reishi – helps immunity, “immortality mushroom”
34:58 Patent on Entomopathogenic Fungi – natural pesticide
36:52 Fungi as antibiotic medicine we only scraped the surface
38:31 How medicinal mushrooms are thought to work
40:40 Mushrooms can fight Viral pandemics
43:19 Lion’s mane mushroom could be an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s
44:10 Psilocybin enhances and preserves neurogenesis
46:55 Mayan culture was very mycophile
47:41 Psychedelic studies in the 50’s and 60’s
49:38 Psilocybin so much more than a party drug
51:00 Movement to marginalize the medical research of psychedelics
54:02 Psilocybin to treat Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
55:05 Psilocybin studies to treat anxiety for Prostate & Kidney cancer
1:01:40 Psilocybin helps people with severe anxiety feel better for months
1:01:50 Psilocybin treatment involves only 1-3 pills.
1:05:32 Turkey tails mushroom study on breast cancer
1:11:31 Fungus antiviral properties fight viruses in insects, such as bees
1:12:40 Mushrooms may create entirely new class of materials
1:13:28 We need a paradigm shift in our perception, interdependence explained.