Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines - Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi

The hidden role of fungi inside us 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 us 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 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 importance in lifesaving medicine.

General

Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2024
Authors:	Nicholas Money
Dimensions:	235 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-691-23630-8
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-691-23630-5
Barcode:	9780691236308

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