Channel: Paul Stamets

Category: Education

Tags: mushroomsbcpaul stametscanadafungihealthagarikonmycologystametsmycoverse

Description: Paul Stamets discusses Agarikon, Fomitopsis officinalis, a long living polypore mushroom native to old growth forests of the PNW of North America. Journeying far up Desolation Sound of British Columbia to a sacred First Nations site where Agarikon also grows, Paul discusses the co-occurrence of Agarikon with this sacred First Nations pictographic site. Is the presence of Agarikon and this site inter-related or simply a coincidence? We may never know as Europeans brought diseases (especially pox and flu viruses) that ravaged First Nations, resulting in the loss of ancestral knowledge. Now is the time to renew our connections to Nature, respect indigenous peoples and use science to protect future generations. #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #old growth forests #polypores #forests #agarikon @fungiperfecti @hostdefense @joerogan @michaelpollan @drweil