[Essay]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

Thank you for introducing me to Paul Stamet's work.
....his story of mushrooms taking over the ant brain is facinating. It makes you wonder what their agenda is when they get us to "see god".

I have to admit, I'm seriously wondering...;
...in addition to enjoying my best laugh of the day.
Thanks, Michaelangelica....

[Mike C]

Originally Posted by Ganoderma

i never knew Flammulina velutipes was used for intelligence. it is eaten a lot here!!! cheap as anything too! everyone eats it...people here i would say are "smart" but totaly lack comon sense lol.

i have not read Wasson that much, just snippets. but i have to say i have 3 people i really look up to in the science world. Steve Irwin, Richard Shultz, and this crazy Stamets fella. all world class leaders in their feilds if you ask me! the thing i liek about all of these guys is they make a big public "stink" in the RIGHT direction, and prove everything they beleive in with real science....love it!

I like the FV mushrooms as well.
However, I never have eaten the cultivated FV's that are different physically from the wild ones.
The wild ones grow on the inside of dead elm trees that are shedding their bark .
I found about a quarter bushel at one site.
That was the first time I ate them.
Another common name for them is 'winter mushrooms '.

Mike C

[Michaelangelica]

How do you write the music for "Twilight Zone"? (What ever happened to that great show?)
Do do do do, do, do, do ?

The research could provide not only a source of new drugs, but a way to "listen to what fungi are saying" to organisms around them.
. . .
Many fungi have a wealth of genes encoding for far more natural products than they actually produce, says Cichewicz.
The explanation is thought to be that when fungi do not need certain compounds, they inhibit the transcription of the DNA that codes for the proteins that make them, preventing their biosynthesis.
. . .
To show their idea in action, the researchers took a culture of Cladosporium cladosporioides, a tidal pool fungus, and treated it separately with 5-azacytidine and suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid. Both treatments, says Cichewicz, dramatically changed the natural product output of the fungus, with two completely new natural products being isolated.
. . .
The results also have important implications for research into fungi and other microorganisms, explains Cichewicz. Natural products are the means by which fungi 'communicate' with organisms around them, so we are in essence, he says, 'discovering chemical means for listening to what fungi are saying'.

Royal Society of Chemistry, the largest organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences

Silent fungus metabolism awakened for source of new drugs
Mushrooms "talk"?
Change the environment and different genes are immediately expressed or turned on?

[Mike C]

Freezestar:

I should have replied in my previous post that that was a truly remarkable experiment with those oyster mushrooms.
That is like a miracle for disposing of a waste product.

Mike C

[freeztar]

Originally Posted by Mike C

Freezestar:

I should have replied in my previous post that that was a truly remarkable experiment with those oyster mushrooms.
That is like a miracle for disposing of a waste product.

Mike C

I agree Mike. What is so surprising to me is that very few people know about this. I imagine much more money is spent on bacterial remediation than fungal remediation. This should be in use right now, but as far as I know, it's still in the research realm.

[Mike C]

Originally Posted by freeztar

I agree Mike. What is so surprising to me is that very few people know about this. I imagine much more money is spent on bacterial remediation than fungal remediation. This should be in use right now, but as far as I know, it's still in the research realm.

BTW, I misspelled your 'user name'. Sorry

Mike C

[Ganoderma]

a nice part with using oyster mushrooms for clean up is there is no risk of spills, contamination or infection of native areas of some kind of foreign bacteria....and seen as oysters eats DEAD things and are already world wide, it would really put a big dent in the local ecosystem i wouldnt think.

[freeztar]

Here's a video with Paul Stamets talking about 6 ways that fungi can help our world:

TED | Talks | Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world (video)