Another fantastic way to introduce mushrooms to your diet while getting rid of your Amazon packaging and/or clearing your garden is to buy a mycelium kit and grow some at home. Winecaps, shitakes, and oysters are ridiculously easy to grow in the UK, and once you have them established, you can feed yourself for years.
I made a soup this week where the stock was dehydrated mushrooms cooked in chicken stock, then pulverized with the immersion blender. Then fresh mushrooms were sautéed and sliced for texture. This was incredibly flavorful as compared to my version made with just fresh mushrooms.
Fungi, the most fascinating kingdom of all, are responsible for plant and animal kingdom health and are the primary drivers of functional farming systems, which should be the basis for functional medicine to achieve planetary and personal health for all.
Mushrooms are great, and so is a big, fat, juicy steak. Having a big, fat, juicy steak with mushrooms cooked in butter is heaven.
Mushrooms as Cancer Treatment
Over 20 years ago, my grandmother had cancer and went on a special diet (researched by my aunt) that involved taking a mushrooms extract. She went into remission, with the help of cancer specialists, and survived. 20 years later, there is a boom in the market for and sale of medicinal mushrooms. To do that, they need to try and replicate how mushrooms are intelligently designed to function in nature. This includes growing them on various organisms in labs and factories.
That is why, although I know they have the potential to be medicinal, I will not just consume any mushrooms product that has claims of treating an illness without researching the company. Mushrooms are smarter than human greed or ambition and obviously powerful over the human mind. They even have command over certain cancers. Why would I attempt to use them for psychedelic purposes? That’s not smart.
These drugs are naturally occurring psychedelic compounds found in certain mushrooms. It’s been studied for its potential therapeutic effects, particularly in treating depression and anxiety. Energy is not produced by plants. It is harvested from the sun. Because of the nature of energy, it is never produced but always harvested or wasted. A better word for wasted actual is dispersed.
I am currently eating a fabulous soup with salmon belly, fennel, sweet onion, bok choy, orange and yellow peppers, and foraged amber jelly fungus. It is a great starter forage as there are no toxic lookalikes, and it grows throughout the winter, which is a great reason to go out for a walk.
At almost 45, I’ve just discovered mushrooming as a pleasant hobby. Walk out in the woods a few days after a rain and see what you can find. Make spore prints! Dye a bit of yarn! Go with somebody who you trust to know about mushrooms, and maybe you’ll be eating chanterelles, hedgehogs, or blewits for dinner. Mmmm!
We overestimate our brains because the intelligence of a network of fungi or a colony of ants is the same way our brain works. We are not as intelligent as we think we are.