Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines
Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi
by Nicholas P. Money
Narrated by Nicholas P. Money
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Pub Date Mar 19 2024 | Archive Date Mar 19 2024
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Description
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 listeners 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 takes listeners 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.
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Advance Praise
“An amazing tour of the world of fungi—a realm that is more entwined with the lives of humans than we realize.”—Alanna Collen, author of 10% Human
“A scintillating account of our inseparable relationships with fungi, both within and outside the body. Money’s compelling blend of social history and the latest mycological research, told with his signature wry wit, will leave you both astonished and squirming.”—Alison Pouliot, author of Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms
Available Editions
| EDITION | Audiobook, Unabridged |
| ISBN | 9798855506921 |
| PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
| DURATION | 7 Hours, 24 Minutes |
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