Mushroom Hunting For Kids with Melany Kahn

The opioid epidemic continues to devastate families and communities across America, leaving researchers and clinicians desperately searching for new treatment approaches. What if a compound found in mushrooms could help break the cycle of addiction? In this riveting conversation, ...  Show more

Today we travel to Lithuania to explore Dzūkija National Park and experience nugrybauti which is a lithuanian word that means to get lost in the woods while looking for mushrooms. We sit down with Tomas Baltušis, an avid mushroom hunter to take us on a gastronomic and fungal dive ...  Show more

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On today's podcast episode, I had an eye-opening conversation with Jeff Chilton about the world of medicinal mushrooms, and how to know that you're getting a good quality product. Jeff shares the benefits of reishi, lion's mane, chaga, and other mushrooms for brain health, imm ...

Why are some mushrooms delicious, some make you high, and some kill you? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice discover the weird world of mushrooms, psilocybin, and mycelia with mycologist Bryn Dentinger. 

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Can mushrooms take over your mind? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen explore the weird world of fungi with fun-guy fungus expert and ecologist, Merlin Sheldrake. Could inactive spores survive space?

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