Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi 1st Edition Money

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0691236313
• ISBN-13: 9780691236315
• Author: Nicholas P. Money

The hidden role of fungi inside and all around us From beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic molds that cause disease, we are constantly navigating a world filled with fungi. Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines explores the amazing ways fungi interact with our bodies, showing how our health and well-being depend on an immense ecosystem of yeasts and molds inside and all around us. Nicholas Money takes readers on a guided tour of a marvelous unseen realm, describing how our immune systems are engaged in continuous conversation with the teeming mycobiome inside the body, and how we can fall prey to serious and even life-threatening infections when this peaceful coexistence is disturbed. He also sheds light on our 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 the treatment of depression. Drawing on the latest advances in mycology, Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines reveals what scientists are learning about the importance of fungi to our lives, from their vital role in supporting the ecosystems on which we depend to their emerging uses in lifesaving medicine.

Table contents:

1. Interacting: Encounters with Fungi from Birth to Death

Part I: Inward
2. Touching: Fungi on the Skin
3. Breathing: Spores in the Lungs
4. Spreading: Opportunists in the Brain
5. Digestion: Yeasts in the Gut

Part II: Outward
6. Nourishing: Molds and Mushrooms in Our Diets
7. Treating: Medicines from Fungi
8. Poisoning: Toxins in Mushrooms and Molds
9. Dreaming: Using Mushrooms to Treat Depression
10. Recycling: The Global Mycobiome

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