We melt into a world of symbioses to meet animal mycophiles that eat mushrooms, spread their spores, farm them, self-medicate with them and even get drunk on them as we broaden our understanding of co-evolution and conservation with our guide Eva Gordon: educator and author of Animal Mycophiles!
We venture past the marketing copy and into the molecules: ergothioneine, beta-glucans, erinacines โ parsing fact from fiction in the medicinal mushroom industry and tracing the deep evolutionary bond between fungi and human bodies with herbalist Lee Carroll as our guide!
Emerging from the forests of Finland, entrepreneur, author, and Hiro Technologies co-founder Tero Isokauppila joins us for a journey into one of the most overlooked frontiers of fungal innovation: the modern landfill. Together, we explore the promise of plastic-eating fungi, the biology behind fungal decomposition, and how Hiro is working to rethink waste management from the ground upโstarting with one of the most persistent everyday waste streams: diapers.
