The Mushroom Hour Podcast

Functional and medicinal mushrooms are terms used to describe mushrooms with health benefits, however, their meaning differs depending on context, tradition and regulation. For centuries mushrooms have been valued in both culinary, and traditional medicine practices. Ancient cultures, from Traditional Chinese Medicine to Indigenous healing systems, have long used mushrooms

The mushroom biologist, Paul Stamets, talks about the antimicrobial properties of fungi, how they can be used as potent insecticides and how they may help boost the human immune system.