Occupation: Author Birth: July 17, 1955
Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated ….
Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population..
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!.
For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe..
If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them..
Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to….
In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farme….
Today, reishi stands out as one the most valuable of all polypore mushrooms in nature for the benefit of our health. Many naturopaths and doctors pre….
Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as “the dancing mushroom.” According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mou….
The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research..
Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer..
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation tha….
Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer ….
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration..
Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth sti….
Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental hea….
We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and understanding with the organisms ….
The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature..
I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we….
I believe nature is a force of good. Good is not only a concept, it is a spirit.
Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death..