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Paul Stamets

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“If you see somebody being abused or somebody being shamed, Extend the Hannah generosity and show people a better way of acting”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cornell University was particularly a good one. There is Mico Webb, which is extremely good, M-Y-K-O-W-E-B. Michael Webb is a really good one. And so there's a lot of mycologists out there that are genuinely really, really good people. But I've, in a sense, have tasked them with expectations, greater than some of which they can deliver. And I apologize for that, but time is short. It's so important that everybody gets aboard the Starship and try to do good.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mushroomreferences.com. I had several hundred peer reviewed articles that we link to or the abstracts that talk about the most recent research from mycellium. And it's a deep dive. Many physicians are unfamiliar. And because the public expects that there would be experts about everything on health, they're actually quite ignorant. And so I have found this has been a challenge. This is why I speak to a lot of academic conferences, a lot of medical conferences, is that there is a desperate need by these physicians to get on board and be familiarized with some of the latest research. But otherwise, fungi.com is a hub and we have a resource section on that website that links to many other nonprofits, lots of other resources, including”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's complicated like you, Tim. We get so many people wanting to contact us. I want to feed some of the researchers out there and people who want to get into some of the detailed research articles. We have a website that we populate called Mushroom References.com.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There were our names will be heralded in the future as a person who cared more about other people than they cared about themselves. That is truly a Christian, a Buddhist, a Zen-like attitude. And I think that it's time for people to take action. We need a revolution.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In the field of my call, I just want to say, in the field of my college, I have no other science that is underfunded, underappreciated, and yet has such an enormous elasticity of benefits. And if I was a Bill Gates or a Jeff Bezos, and I met these people, it's just not part of my DNA to pitch. And I look at them going, I could do so much benefit for hundreds of millions of people, but I can't even begin to talk about this because I don't want to pitch. But thankfully, my company is soaring and I have a great group, a community of individuals who believe in this, who see the results. And Michael Poland's book, and Fantastic Fungi, and you're in support, et cetera, helps spreads this message. But I'm 63 years of age.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it really speaks to the concept of seven generations and first peoples really have this so much as a pillar of their understanding and dealing with nature. We should give up this idea of making money in the short term and we should embrace the idea of creating sustainability and the long term. True conservatives should be conserving natural resources and thinking about downstream generations. Right now we have hungry, greedy people whose morals have been hijacked for whatever reason. And I think that this nature-loving movement with all of its strange characterizations really is based on something that's fundamentally good for the commons.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They have a listing of all the local mycological societies in Canada, United States, and Mexico. That's one, joining your B get involved in supporting, frankly, farmers in developing biodiverse landscapes. And the march to monoculture and the march to the industrialization of agriculture is sacrificing the very biodiverse networks that have evolved to help plants grow. When you add lots of fertilizers and insecticides, you defeat the natural systems of the mycelium that has engaged and help plants for hundreds of millions of years. When you have mycelium helping plants, you do not need external inputs as much as fertilizers, et cetera. And I think there are ecologically rational solutions to many of the problems that we face today.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Million amount for bee research at WSU, we have just begun to explore the role of these polypore mushrooms. There's hundreds of them to test. We've hit the home runs on our very first ones. We're extremely lucky. But the fact that it speaks to we can reduce these viruses 45,000 to one with one treatment. I mean, what antiviral drug will do that is a complex soup of constituents, the contrast is surprising. So supporting a nonprofits joining a mushroom society is the North American Mycological Association, which is a parent organization called NAMA. And their website is NAMICo.org, N-A-M-Y-C-O.org.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. The simplest thing that people can do is let wood rot. Give up this idea of Elizabethan yard that's highly manicured and managed. Nature likes fractal faces. Fractalization of nature at different orders of magnitude and gives all these niches to microorganisms and microbiodiversity that's critical for sustainability. So rather than letting hauling the wood off, let logs rot in your garden, in your yard, mushrooms will come up. That'll help feed the bees. It'll help build these fracturally intense environments that are really important for biodiversity. That's one. We have a campaign for supporting Washington State University at WSU.b's dot wsu.edu. We've raised over $3 million.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In pharmaceuticals, with a greater bio shield of defense with less toxicity and more utility in a sustainable way. And that, I think, is paradigm shifting.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who we are and where we've come from So I've open sourced at all the developing countries, but Europe and Eurasia. Not Asia, not South America, not Mexico, not Africa. In order for a solution to be Effective has got to be practiced in order for it to be practiced. It's got to be commercially successful. In order for it to be commercially successful, it's got to go to market with some protection of your idea. But the fact though that these patents are issuing is, and I've made mistakes, and my colleges out there whose eyes roll, but I'm very happy to have received several rewards, one of which from the Mycological Society of America for bringing more students into the field of mycology than anyone in history. They were kind of schizophrenic about me because I'm a psychedelic researcher, not trained, and I bring in all these students into their classrooms that want to save the world. And they said, Paul, you created a huge problem. We want to study yeast, and these students want to save the world. What do we do? So I think this is something that is actionable solutions. And I think I can make the argument, and this is very provocative, that I can make the argument that natural products can be more powerful.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Eurasia. When I first got the first patent award, for five seconds, I was excited, literally. And then it became horribly demoralized. I said, you've got to be kidding. There's no prior art. No one, they did the patent offices, they have massive search engines in every language, Chinese, French, Japanese, English, German, and there's not a single mention anywhere out there that bees benefit from mycellium immunologically let alone reducing the viruses that are being vectored by mites. The fact that I'm the one who discovered this is horribly depressing. It means that we're truly Neanderthals with nuclear weapons. And people talk about climate change and how biodiversity is a bunch of liberal scientists. Are you friggin kidding? This is so fundamental.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What can we do? This is actionable ecological solutions, this paradigm shifting, that's scalable, ecologically rational, economically sustainable. Again, all these fungi grow in every forest of the world. And we all grew up in the Winnie the Pooh, and everybody missed this. Now I've been issued now 10 patents.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Disease. There's a plurality of fungi in such diverse populations that create a matrix of defense. We have found that these individual species now, we've tested five different polypor mushrooms, they're all active to different degrees. What we have not reported in a scientific article that we submitted is that we have one result that's over 100 million times reduction of these viruses with one treatment. Many of these viruses, herpes viruses are known as onco viruses that cause cancer. Lots of them cause inflammation that destabilizes the immune system. This is something I think is so critically important. Everyone's talking about bad news, and we are in the sixth X, the sixth grade extinction known on this planet. We have 8.3 million species. We're losing more than 30,000 a year. Do the math in 100 years, that's more than a third of the biodiversity is unraveling all around.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The mycelium not only controls the microbiomes and are deterministic in the downstream evolution of ecosystems, but they also control the immunological health of the animal inhabitants, because the very same extracts that reduce viruses that harm birds, bird flu, H5N1, H3N1, and pigs that harm people, pox viruses, herpes viruses, birds, pigs, people, bees. This speaks to something I think that is very deeply profound and understanding that within nature, these mycel networks are everywhere. Every tree is infused with mycelium, every vegetable you eat is infused with fungi. This is part of the mutualistic relationship that we have with these fungi that increases the host offense and resistance against”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“At 1%. Now, all beekeepers feed sugar water to their bees. Is 50% sugar 50% water? So one milliliter per hundred, one unit per 100, 1%, we give it to the bees. And then seven to 12 days later, those viruses are reduced by thousands of times. In the article that we submitted, we reduced the Lake Sinai virus by more than 45,000 times. The deformed wing virus by more than 800 times with one dose and it doubles the lifespan of bees. Think of the implications of this. This means that I think I have a window now in understanding something fundamental to the foundation of nature.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Said, listen, Steve, please just give me a half an hour. It's going to sound crazy to you at first, but let me talk to you about this. About 15 minutes, and he said, stop, go nowhere else. We want to work with you. So the end result of this is we tested this on 532 beehives in Southern California two years ago. We've done seven tests now, an outdoor beehives. We have found something, I think, that's extraordinary breakthrough. With our mycellial extracts of these polypore mushrooms, these wood conks that look like they're called hoof-shaped mushrooms that grow on trees. Everyone's seen them. With the mycelium that's extracted in water and ethanol, the very same extracts that we use in the bio shield biodefense program, we gave it to the bees and we've submitted an article to a renowned scientific journal. And from one dose,”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I have a waking dream. And his waking dream hit me like a lightning bolt. I said, oh my God, I woke up. I think I know how to save the beast. And so I first called a very good friend of mine, Lee Stein. I said, listen, I have this waking dream. It shook me to the liqueur. He said, stop everything you're doing. Focus on this. This is too important. So I called the University of California Davis. It's never a good idea to start a conversation with another scientist that you've not met with the words, I had a dream. That conversation went nowhere. It's like a crazy person, goodbye. So I called up Washington State University. I was at TED. I think at the TED that you spoke at. And I was at TED and I went out and I was given Steve Shepherd's name from Washington State University. He's a chair of entomology in Pullman, Washington. Washington State University is an agricultural science college.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In the research I've done, I look at what's called the delignification of wood, how fungi gobble up wood and break it down. And I recognize PKumaric acid as a chemical constituent that was present in breaking down wood. That's why you see my ciliated wood smells fragrant and odiferous. There's a lot of outgassing of mycoflavonoids, phenol, phenolic compounds that are going into, and that's why after a rain in the woods, the wood smells so good. That's the outgassing of mycellium. All these scent trails are being created to entice us and insects and other animals to follow scent trails and part of the outcasting of the mycelium. Okay, I had all those four experiences and then I go to sleep.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then the bees leave hive and they don't come back. So imagine if you were again a cattle rancher, a sheep rancher, you're losing more than 50% of your, it's psychologically damaging as well as economically damaging. And people just give up. So I had these experiences and then I saw in this journal that when they looked at the honey and the abandoned beehives, it lacked a certain chemical called p-cumaric acid. P-cumaric acid is the chemical trigger that governs the detoxification pathway in bees. It's called the cytochrome P450 pathway. All animals use it. We have emotionally in our liver. It's how we break down toxins. Without p-cumaric acid, they found these bees hundreds of pounds of honey, no bees in the beehive. It lacks its essential nutrient, peaumaric acid. I'm not a chemist, but I'd seen pumaric acid before.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“gone or gone it's not like there's a whole bunch of dead bees laying in front of the beehive they're gone they fly away it turns out that the bees are there there's a deformed wing virus which is the number one virus of concern that's been identified by researchers almost a dozen papers have been published in the past three years identifying the deform wing virus as the virus that is the most debilitating to the bees it not only reduces the tensile strength of their wings, but they're deformed. They can't fly at all. We see bees on a flower. It's the last days of their life. Bees used to go out to get pollen for nine days, and now they're going out for four days. So they can't bring enough pollen back to the hive.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Michael factor number two Hall gets involved in the bio shield program, discovers that polypore mushrooms have antiviral properties and many patents have issued now. I have more patents on this. People can look them up. And so that was another experience I had. Number three, getting rid of the carpenter ransom in my house using entomopathogenic fungus relating that insects are vectors of disease. And then moving forward I'm looking at the research articles and implos, which is an open source online journal, a scientific journal, is on the cover of the PLOS was a big article on the discovery that St. McConney collapse happens. Most people don't know this, is that you got your beehives on Monday, everything is fine. You go out there on Thursday and they're all”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Harrow Swift Magazine 1988. I published this in 1994 in Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, one of my books. And I speculated, oh, the bees are going after the sugar-rich exudates because mycellium is producing these polysaccharides that are sweet and they're fragrant. And maybe that's why the bees are going there. Okay, that's one. I'm going to give you a microfactorial equation. So that's the first mico factor. Factor number one, policies, bees subtracted the wood chips in his garden. I forgot about it.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“1984 mushroom going in my garden. It's a wood chip mushroom that grows on wood chips, produces mushrooms up to five pounds per specimen. People can look it up. And I had these wood chips permeated with mycellium, and I had two beehives. And one day in July I come out and I see the bees all over my wood chips. I look really closely. They're moving the wood chips to the side. It's like you pushing a semi truck to the side. Some of these wood chips are really big to expose the mycellium. And I looked very carefully and from dawn to dusk for 40 days, there's a continuous convoy of bees to the my wood chips of a garden giant, mycellium, in my garden, traveling about 800 to 1,000 feet. And so I went out there, I photographed that. Thank God I found the photographs. There were codochrome 64 slides and sweltering heat two years ago. I found them up in an attic. But I published this in...”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm self employed. I can risk to be wrong. But the more I speculate, the more I test, the more I do research, you know, that's what it takes. It takes efforts to see if something will work. And so I failed a lot of times, and the failure is the price of tuition I've paid to learn a new lesson. All that being said, this is what happened.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Flower and they get the pollen on them, they also spread the viruses to the pollen they leave. And so when the wild bees come, they become infected. So this is a direct threat to worldwide food biosecurity. The loss of bees is such an important issue and interestingly it's the number one bridge issue between liberals and conservatives. So I like to tell people, you go, Thanksgiving dinner, you don't want to talk about Hillary or Trump, talk about the importance of bees. There's a number one issue that brings liberals and conservatives together because everyone recognizes the importance of bees as it is for food biosecurity. So my friend Louis came to me and I started studying this subject and I had five experiences in Rowe that led me to an epiphany. And no matter what my critics say, I've been wrong sometimes. I'm not right all the time. So I accept that. But I push the envelope because I don't have to worry about tenure.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And 80% of the pollination services that we benefit from bees pollinating are actually coming from wild bees, not the honey bee, which is apus malefera, which produces huge colonies. The wild bees are oftentimes called solitary bees. They're very small groups of a dozen bees or two dozen bees are ground dwellers. And those bees provide over 80% of the services that are benefiting agriculture. So the honeybees demand we have about 2 million hives in the United States. The average loss right now is over 50% nationally, a few hot spots, but those hotspots then emanate out and epidemics become pandemics. And so now we have evolved into a viral pandemic of these viruses spreading throughout the world. And it was just discovered in the past two or three years that these bees that are infected with these viruses when they visit us.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Scientists at the USDA has not seen a virus free bee more than 10 years. What has happened now is a virus is being spread by the virula mite and the varroa mite was controlled by a mitocyte that was used to control chicks on cattle called amatras. Now amatraz is not legal to use by beekeepers but they use it. They were soaking their bee hives with this amatraz, this toxic tick mitocyt and they're drenching it twice per year to control the mites and now they're up to eight times per year within 10 years. The mites have developed a resistance. The mites are like having a pancake on your back. They attach themselves. They're extremely hard to dislodge. And now 27 viruses have been identified being vectored by mites. What the big surprise is all the wild bees now have these viruses.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, bees are dying because of a confluence of variables, lass habitat, neonix, pesticide exposure, factory farming. It's not natural for bees to put on trucks and travel a thousand miles to the almond orches of California. They all are concentrated. They spread diseases amongst themselves. And then they disperse. And so that's a great scenario for diseases to be spread. But by far the biggest one that's been identified in the scientific literature is the varroa mite. And the varroa mite was introduced in 1987. It came from Asia. Varroa destructor. That's Latin. It injects a whole slew of viruses into the bees. Now all bees in the world have these viruses working with the USDA, Dr. J. Evans, and he was a USDA virologist who's widely published and a senior”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In the course of looking at the situation with bees, I started looking at it and there's many co-factors. Now, health or disease in my mind is a series of coefficient variables, factors which are strung together at the end of the equation means health or disease. So there is not a single cause for colony collapse. It's a perfect storm of unfortunately bad things that have been happening to the bees. Habitat loss is one. Neonicotinoids, we already know they've been banned in Europe, ironically from a study that Bear and Syngenta sponsored, thinking that neonyx would not be toxic and they found out they were toxic.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well I had a series of events and these events when you string them together led to me to an epiphany and that I am a controversial mycologist. I have been trained academically in mycology as an undergraduate student, but I married a woman 11 years older than me who had three kids, 12, 14, and 16 when I was 22. I couldn't afford to move my kids to other cities to go to graduate school. I got accepted into several graduate schools, but I couldn't afford to move. So I started this little mail order business and packed 30,000 boxes before I had a single employee. Now I have over 100 employees. So it's a real testimonial to stamina and good luck and also the extension of generosity by some very kind people who came to my rescue a few times over my life.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think of it if you were having cattle or sheep at your ranch and you lost 75% of your sheep or cattle, that is devastating. What's also devastating to beekeepers 35% or more of our food is directly dependent upon bee pollination. 70% is indirect. Many people don't realize that most of our dairy products are dependent upon bee pollination because alfalfa and hay is dependent upon bees. All the almonds that you consume, every almond that you consume was visited by a bee on that flower. And so the almond industry specifically needs honeybees in particular. And so Louis came to me and said, Paul, there's a huge problem with colony collapse and bees are dying. What can you do about it?”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was doing a movie, he was looking at butterflies, and then he got into bees and colony collapse. And colony collapses disorder as a euphemism created by the media, but it does speak to a very serious issue. In Oklahoma last year, 74% of the beehives died.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, and I had this entomopathogenic fungi patents and working against termites and carpenter ants and bed bugs and mites. And so a good friend of mine, Louis Schwarzberg, he actually has finished a movie called Fantastic Fungi. It's coming out in the next few months. We've been making it for over 10 years with Lynn Lear, Norman Lear, and that group. And I just saw the final cut a few days ago. It is quite good. I'm really happy where it's going. But it talks about the Wood Wide Web. And Susan Samard is a British Columbia mycologist, and I'm a total fan of her work. And a big kudos to her because she and I are two peas in the pod. She was doing her work parallel to my going mine. And we ended up, you know, really in the same intellectual ecosystem, so to speak.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Straw, so they actually articulate the populations and bacteria downstream from the mycellial networks. But this is going to segue. So we talked about the antiviral stuff and over the bio-shield biodefense program in 9-11.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Crisis that are helping people feed themselves and think about all those thousand people now understanding how to grow mushrooms, what the downstream effect will be with their children when they get out of those camps. They'll have skill sets that can really expand this in a huge way. I believe that mycellium is the foundation of the food web. It is essential for food biosecurity. I mentioned the mycelium creates the microbiomes we've done next gen sequencing. We've been able to prove this. I've not published it, but people can see my talks on it showing that different myceal masts control and destined populations of bacteria are uniquely specific to the mycelium that is growing in wood chips or in”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, well, I would recommend that people read my book, Mycellium Running, How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. It covers into these subjects very, very deeply. And the book is used now as an introductory mycology book at many universities. I typically don't promote a product from stage. There's no lectures out there. You can find this. But I do want to draw people's attention to fungi.com, F-U-N-G-I.com. There's an amazing letter from a Syrian refugee. And I want people, we obscured his face because we don't want him to be targeted by Assad Assad's assassins. But he has brought in mushroom cultivation into refugee camps using recyclable materials from the cardboard and all the paper. And he literally, you have to read the letter. It just brings tears to your eyes. These over a thousand people now engaged in growing mushrooms, oyster mushrooms in refugee camps from the Syrian.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We are all involved in this network of being, and this is just one of our strands in that network that we're living today.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Noise we have around politics and everything else is just so narrowly focused in the context of the greater being. I think that we are on the verge where science and spirituality are converging. And now we're understanding nature and the extent of the cosmos, the hundreds of billions of galaxies. I mean, just I always wanted to be an astro mycologist. I kind of am now in some sense, but I've always wanted to, you know, I think we'll find fungal networks throughout nature, throughout the universe on multiple planets, multicellular organisms will form as networks. Networks will give rise to animals. And I think that we are a descendant of this network-based paradigm that's represented not only in mycellium and a neurons and the computer internet, the Organization of Dark Matter. This is a continuation on different orders of magnitude of the way of being.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have a business, but anybody who's ordered from our business, I own the business, so I run it. And several years ago, I got these little stickers that say, you are beautiful And every time someone orders from our business in their order are two, you are beautiful stickers. And I've had so many people write saying there were just a horrible day. A physician just wrote to me recently. Oh my God, I cannot believe this little messaging I send to because then they can pass one forward. So every order in every box, there are two you are beautiful stickers. And so many people have written saying that's what they needed to see that changed their entire day. Again, extension of gratitude and affirmation. And we are all on this planet together. We live in this time and space. Tim, you're going to die. I'm going to die. Everybody listening to this podcast is going to die. But we re-enter into the fabric of nature from which we sprung. And I think that fabric of nature is based on the extension of goodness. I just know it empirically.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Nature, and how are we going to inspire and lead and promote the forces of good and generosity and mutualism and how we're going to get away from the people who want to tear it all down? My work with bees, I think, is the cost celeb of my life.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is the end of his life, end of his, you know, basically he's done. And then I go. Released, I said, you know, you actually did really well. And I extended my hand in friendship. He's laying on the mat. This big burly biker guy started crying because I was nice to him. I took him down, but I wasn't glorifying in my win. I was extending my hand in friendship. Changed his life. When I left the school, he was a brown belt. He became this big teddy bear. He's shepherding all these little, I told him, listen, the girl here, she's got a yellow belt. You've got a white belt. You bow to her. That's the way it works here. It's based on your experience and respect. Totally changed this life. So that's a story of my life is that the extension of, and I think psilocybin mushrooms make people nicer people. I just really believe that. There is this understanding that your life is not just your life. Your life is in the context of”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I looked over at my head instructor and he nodded his head and said, Okay, Paul, time to take him out. Three or four punches, sucker punched them that are jumping hook kick, bam, hit them in the temple, bam, they went down on the ground, you know, semi-conscious. And then I'm hovering over and I put my hand onto his trachea. I put my middle finger into the inside of his eyeball. And that way I could pop his eyeball and pull out his trachea at the same time. Now, people are really concerned about their vision and also in their face. When you lock your finger into the eyeball and ready to take out the eyeball, people want to give up really fast. He was terrified. He had the look of like, oh my God, I'm going to lose my eyeball. And this guy's got, you know, he was just waking up from being stunned from this kick. And I got him like that and I knew I had, okay, this is it. I can take him out right now.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so this bike came in and said, I'll let you fight one of my black belts. It's fine. So Paul come over here. And so I came over there and was really polite. And I send my hand, shift my hand. He wouldn't shake my hand. He just was all disin vinegar and wanted to fight me. And I said, well, we have a few rules. Take off your shoes. And then we got out on the mat.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had one experience that I think is emblematic of this is I was an early young black belt in Taekmondo and a big biker came in. He was just seething with anger and wired on amphetamines and he wants to fight a black belt, just a biker dude. He's just pissed off at the world. And he came in. And number one, the head instructor does not fight at a challenge like this. They have too much to lose if they screw up, they lose space in front of their students. So anyhow, my head instructor gene said, Paul, I got another one.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Turn it into a different individual. I've been in thousands of fights. I started to ask in the Category of Martial Arts. I first got into Gojuru Shotokan Shitoru, got my first black belt in Taekwondo, and then began a black belt in Huangdo, which is by far one of the most sophisticated styles in the world, similar to Hapkido and some other styles of Kuksul.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I believe evolution is an extension of gratitude in sharing. And it's not necessarily this neo-Darwinian concept of competition, the first to food wins. It's a collaboration of people who are allied together with common interests. And we need to shepherd all of ourselves from our weaknesses to become stronger. Lots of people know this, but very few different schools of people know this. I got into the martial arts when I was 14. I have two black belts. I had schools for 30, 40 years. Long haired hippie, really nice person.”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have been exposed to a circle of kindness. And I believe in karma. Was a child who had a lot of problems. I want a big debt of gratitude to my professor, Dr. Michael Bug. He never humiliated me at the Evergain State College. I make some dumb statements. He was entertained by them, but entertained by them in a humorous way that engaged me to explore. And dive more deeply into the subject matter, but I was never humiliated. And a circle of kindness, and I really believe in karma because this has been a huge thing in my life, is the fact that”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there's maybe one funny example that just came out in the literature of that, but I wouldn't call it necessarily a toxin, but having a sub-threshold dose, I think, makes a really valid approach. And you probably shouldn't take these every day because you normalize the receptors. And so Washington receptors and having them recalibrate themselves is probably a good thing to do. So pulse therapy three to four days on, three to four days off is probably a better approach than taking them every day. So the jury's out on that. A lot of different opinions of it”
2018-10-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT