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Science On Tap
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From beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic molds that cause disease, we are constantly navigating a world filled with fungi. Health and well-being depend on an immense ecosystem of yeasts and molds inside and all around.
Come on a guided tour of a marvelously unseen realm, describing how immune systems are engaged in continuous conversation with the teeming mycobiome inside the body and how people can fall prey to serious and even life-threatening infections when this peaceful coexistence is disturbed. The speaker also sheds light on the 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 treating depression.
Drawing on the latest advances in mycology, Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines reveal what scientists are learning about the importance of fungi to lives, from their vital role in supporting the ecosystems on which everyone depends to their emerging uses in lifesaving medicine.
Nicholas Money is a mycologist and professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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