Surprising Uses for Fungi You May Not Know

The thing I love the most about fungus, is it shows how interconnected all of nature is. It's a great tool when teaching young children science. A few mushroom kits, that can grow fist sized mushrooms in a week, and the kids can even watch it happen (Children are often way too impatient to wait for an entire growing season for vegetables), it fascinates them. One child even took the substrate block home with her after harvest, and did a few of her own little experiments. She continued misting it with water and take caring of it, until it produced a second and eventually a 3rd crop of mushrooms! Children are natural scientists, you just have to let them go.

Speaking from personal experience, the description of anxiety as hyper-consciousness is ABSOLUTELY correct. I impatiently await any sort of opportunity to legally try psilocybin.

Those hallucinogenic shrooms Hank talked about have also been clinically shown to cure severe cluster headaches, which are extremely similar to migraines. Even at very low doses. Like, below the dose needed to trip.

The “all but one patients lost feelings of depression” hit me hard.

I'm glad that we're finally realizing that the war on drugs was incredibly stupid, who knows the amount of people in the past who just needed a heroic dose of shrooms but instead turned to alcohol to cope with their probems.

Yay for Oregon for legalizing psilocybin for clinical use! Oddly, partly in thanks to the Dr Bronner's soap guy.

Can attest to this. Was extremely depressed, for years. Spent 3 yrs alone and disabled. Worked hard through physical therapy and got back to work and still suicidal. Did one large dose of mushrooms 2 yrs ago and have not had any depression since. Good and bad days yes. But no depression.

Jumping on the psilocybin is good train, it has extremely promising medicinal uses with few if any noted long term problems, unlike opioids which are highly addictive and extremely dangerous but have definite short term benefits. But they usually over prescribed so a lot of people get addicted.

Since we're getting our coffee nerd on I'll mention that the foul bitter tasting Robusta is also generally higher in caffeine.

My very first Golden Teacher magic mushrooms showed up today! It has been about a month since I germinated my spores, and I found the first little caps started growing from the mycelium! I cant wait to see how they work!

"if you didn't think dirt could carry disease, it can" tetanus: enters the chat

I still can’t believe that psilocybin shrooms are still illegal. I also understand it should definitely have a limit and should start out in the medical field. There is so much research affirming microdosing but the majority of people who haven’t tried shrooms just think that if you take any amount you’ll trip balls 🙄

Consider the amount of "smartshops" (that sells psilocybin) we have here in Amsterdam. It's not illegal everywhere. But we have weird drug related laws here. Mushrooms are illegal, but truffels aren't.

I occasionally enjoy a small amount of Psilocybin in my Saturday morning coffee which i find a great way to start the weekend but in all my time using it I've never hallucinated, even with an accidental over dose.I just feel happy and relaxed. It's really fantastic for those of us that can't afford therapy as well

Your consistency and quality of content never disappoints! ❤️

You forgot that some can turn you giant like Mario has been.

Wouldn't it be possible to simulate the growing conditions (Weather, Soil composition, Moister, as well as chemical atmosphere) to lab grow the Coffee Beans? i suppose you could also transplant them in area's that will mimic the conditions they live in if necessary the Ozark Mountains for example are moist enough and provide areas of shade or I suppose you could grow in a greenhouse to regulate temperature and humidity levels

The dosings involved are considered to be micro dosages and are non-likely to produce any kind hallucinatory effects visually or auditory.

i am 46 and have only recently began to experiment with psychedelics during lockdown, ketamine, Psilocybin and DMT. I have found it to have opened my eyes to who and what I am and my own conscious state as well as help me with compassion and understanding of others. States I would have never understood without those amazing compounds.

Amazing video. You never stop delivering high-quality researched videos. Thanks. And the moral of the story is that mono-cultures (only growing coffee beans) is a really bad idea. If one fungus/insects finds the weakness in one plant - all plants in that field dies with it. Variety creates resilience.