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Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi
Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi
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September 25, 2024The hidden role of fungi inside and all around us.
From beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic molds that cause disease, we are constantly navigating a world filled with fungi. Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines explores the amazing ways fungi interact with our bodies, showing how our health and well-being depend on an immense ecosystem of yeasts and molds inside and all around us.
Nicholas Money takes readers on a guided tour of a marvelous unseen realm, describing how our immune systems are engaged in continuous conversation with the teeming mycobiome inside the body, and how we can fall prey to serious and even life-threatening infections when this peaceful coexistence is disturbed. He also sheds light on our complicated relationship with fungi outside the body, from wild mushrooms and cultivated molds that have been staples of the human diet for millennia to the controversial experimentation with magic mushrooms in the treatment of depression.
Drawing on the latest advances in mycology, Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines reveals what scientists are learning about the importance of fungi to our lives, from their vital role in supporting the ecosystems on which we depend to their emerging uses in lifesaving medicine.
Nicholas Money is a mycologist and professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of popular science books that celebrate the diversity of the microbial world.
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Alberta Rose Theatre
Alberta Rose Theatre3000 NE Alberta StPortland, ORMolds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi
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