☠️ DEADLY Mushrooms (Should You Be Scared of Harvesting Wild Mushrooms?)

What happens when you eat a poisonous mushroom? In this video, we go over the basics of the "deadly" mushrooms, what toxins they contain, and tips to avoid accidentally ingesting one of these dangerous shrooms.
0:00 Intro
0:53 How many mushrooms are actually poisonous?
2:30 What happens when you eat a deadly poisonous mushroom?
4:46 Why do mushrooms produce toxins?
6:30 How to avoid poisonous mushrooms
8:26 Outro
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[@albert.robles7]

I'm still trying to find a reliable place to buy spores or purchase the actual mushrooms, I've got depression and terrible anxiety

[@trevornelson61]

Shrooms are truly incredible 🥰 very much recommend a safe trip

[@user-nancyy]

i noticed my range of motion improve substantially. one of the many benefits I've experienced bc of shrooms

[@christophersmt6500]

One of my most powerful trips I saw the face of Hanuman in the sky, it was wild

[@Steveshappylittletrees]

There's many sites to get them. My "Guys" are Spore swaps of Oregon. They have vendors with spores in print, syringe and swab form and they also have grown cultures in plate and liquid culture form. There's also a few vendors with Gourmet edible as well 🙂

[@HercadosP]

Amatoxin has one hell of a structure. The other day I just happened to read an ACS publication detailing how to make it synthetically for my lab project ("Synthesis of the Death-Cap Mushroom Toxin α-Amanitin")

[@rolfopierreantoine8906]

Is this legal?

[@tautkusm]

What beneficial purpose comes from synthesis of deadly toxins such as Amatoxin?

[@FireBIaze]

"...fuzzy blankets feel incredible..." Haha he has tried them.

[@hiphopanoyomous]

Some mushrooms are capable of feeding you for the rest of your life as short as it may end up being...

[@FreshCapMushrooms]

LMMO!

[@evilsharkey8954]

Wellll, technically they take several days to kill you, and you end up shitting them out ferociously.

[@hidad5601]

@@evilsharkey8954 kind of like tacobell

[@evilsharkey8954]

@@hidad5601 I was thinking more like Chipotle.

[@mgeller854]

@@hidad5601 exactly, we’re willing to risk ecoli from someone else cooking our food in a sketchy kitchen rather make our own judgement about a subject we should’ve been taught since childhood. Speaks volumes about how enabled we are to be retarded.....

[@supergeek0177]

Have you heard the story from Australia recently, 3 people died and a 4 is waiting on a liver transplant! Apparently they also found a dehydrator from the person who cooked the food, was thrown in the local dump! .... Very intriguing!

[@Fungiacademy]

Great stuff Tony! Thanks for such a clear, fun overview that gives people the knowledge to drop their fear of mushrooms!

[@The_lone_hydrangea]

Thank you for the ebook pal, will help a lot :)

[@dmurphydrtc]

Thanks for all the great videos Tony, much appreciated.

[@johncasaleggio842]

at certain times of year, the chances of randomly picking a poisonous mushroom are much higher than the 1-2% as stated on the video. Sometimes all I find are toxic mushrooms such as Deadly Galerina.

[@FreshCapMushrooms]

always important to note time of year, geography etc 100%. When in doubt, throw it out (ie. don't pick)

[@Earthpuma25]

Love the content Tony, keep it up!

[@FreshCapMushrooms]

thanks for watching!! More to come :)

[@neoncranetrent2911]

Dude those trippy visuals sent me back to another time in my life! Thank you for that!

[@FreshCapMushrooms]

LOL ;()

[@peanutbutter6350]

I’ve been watching a few of your vids cause I want to get into growing mushrooms. Just an idea if you haven’t done it already, but have you thought of making an app that covers mushrooms, how to grow them in detail and how to use them?

[@Drogothehusky]

WOOP WOOP! A shout out to WA!! 🤘 😂🌲🏔🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 Awesome! 🥂 Great video!

[@theChilest]

this is one of the best quality channels in yt right now. Saludos from Chile.

[@FreshCapMushrooms]

wow, thank you for your kind words!

[@martink9785]

It's said, you can eat all mushrooms, some only once. Be careful 🙂

[@FreshCapMushrooms]

twice if you are fast enough!

[@americanrebel413]

Thank you.

[@PigRipperLAW]

Legalize it 🍄

[@Nicole-ww4lg]

Love all the spore print art in this vid

[@Mythikal13]

Good rule of thumb: if you come across any type of Amanita mushroom, generally best not to bother at all, even if you think it's an edible type

[@evilsharkey8954]

Amanitas are expert level forager mushrooms. Noobs should stay away from anything with that little egg at the bottom.

[@Mythikal13]

@@evilsharkey8954 yes. I live in BC in Canada and is always upsetting to hear about people getting hurt or dying from death caps more and more each year. No one is really educated on it and from what I remember seeing there was very little on helping educate the public on how to avoid the mushrooms in the news about it. Will get vague "grows in fields, looks similar to xyz" or something like that, but literally anyone can identify an amanita. Anyone could learn to just not mess with anything, like you said, with a bulb on the bottom for example. Dont even think it had a link to more resources on identifying mushrooms for peoples safety. Just stay safe any newbies reading this, mushrooms have a lot of power that needs to be respected and understood. They can help you survive and feed you, they can provide profound experiences, they can heal you, but they can also poison you, and they can kill you even sometimes without you realizing it until its too late. A lot of mushrooms dont have an antipoison or antitoxin. A mushroom that kills you could be confused with a psychedelic or medicinal mushroom. Be very careful and safe.

[@evilsharkey8954]

I’d like to add to that, since there are treatments that are showing promise. Alpha amanitin poisoning has two sick phases for a reason. The first time the toxin passes through the gut, some gets absorbed, making you sick. The kidneys filter out what they can, while the liver takes what it can’t handle and dumps it into the bile duct to dispose of. Then it passes through the intestines a second time and does the damage all over again while the liver is still suffering the punishment from the first time the poison went through. Whether or not a person will survive with their original liver often depends on how well their kidneys are working because very good kidneys can catch more of the toxin and piss it out. Unfortunately, alpha amanitin poisoning doesn’t typically show symptoms until the toxin has already been absorbed through the gut, when it’s too late to prevent damage. However, treatments can be administered before the second round of poison is dumped from the liver. Extract of milk thistle seed, also called silibinin, has been effectively used to block reuptake of the toxin on the second pass. There are drugs made from this extract, like Legalon, that can save lives and livers. If you know anyone who has accidentally eaten a deadly amanita, talk to their doctor about using medical grade silibinin. It’s approved for humans who’ve been poisoned, but it is not yet approved for dogs, so if your dog has amatoxin poisoning, ask your vet to do everything they can to get an experimental authorization for using it. One nitpick: Amanita virosa doesn’t live in North America. It’s a European species. We have at least four other similar species that are also called “destroying angel”. In the Eastern US, our most common destroying angel is A. bisporingera. A lot of NA mushrooms were misclassified as similar looking European mushrooms, when DNA tests are showing they’re different species. It doesn’t help that all destroying angels are pure white deadly amanitas of very similar proportions. I recently learned that from Alan Rockefeller. I’m sure you know him.

[@Spudwellington]

your content is definitely getting better and better. im happy for you man. in a world where mycology is becoming more normalized you are really on the ground floor. keep on keeping on.

[@sissypissyrapper23]

I can't get over how cool that pillow is. Great video as always

[@FreshCapMushrooms]

mush appreciated!

[@mistica-10]

I have been studying mushrooms for years and always find it fascinating. I actually love the shrooms,, they are so pretty. I only eat a few species but love to hunt for them. It's like hunting an Easter egg. 😁

[@greenthumbseedlings1808]

Where is the link?

[@HerbQuest]

I'm surprised you didn't mention galerina.

[@gefginn3699]

Great post my friend. I appreciate you and your efforts in educating folks on this treasure topic. I hope to be growing my own in the near future. 🥰🍄

[@FreshCapMushrooms]

happy to do it! good luck with your growing :)

[@bobsmith1101]

Don't forget the 'trip balls' varieties.

[@mgiant]

Fantastic Video . Greetings from a Mushroom youtube channel in Greece 🙂🙃

[@ohjimmyimhome2084]

cool

[@karinatorres170]

Hi 🙂 My husband likes watching you so now I’m watching you too

[@benmorris7276]

I usually just don't pick any white mushrooms because I'm usually not sure if it's a toxic or deadly poisonous. The only white mushroom I pick is the giant puff ball

[@mushroomexists3211]

“Amazing Compounds That Are Deadly and Poisonous.” well that’ll be the name of my next folk punk album

[@ToxicMrSmith]

Amanita muscaria isn't poisonous if prepared correctly.

[@stananders474]

I'm 72 and my parents always would say "never eat wild mushrooms". Its a very English thing.

[@slightlyshroomy]

Danger Blueberries

[@FreshCapMushrooms]

LOL

[@iiide3]

Nicholas Evans, not sparks lol

[@caninesfirst214]

did you mean Nicholas Evans?

[@shadrach6299]

I m scared of all of them unless they are “store bought”

[@shadrach6299]

I found some turkey tail mushrooms in my yard but I ain’t eating them

[@gwaters8067]

".... killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom, deadly......."

[@TipsyCHUBBZ]

transcend reality

[@MrYahboo]

Why show Amanita Muscaria when making the statement, "...it's not only poisonous amanitas..." - this immediately gives the false impression that one is looking at one of those poisonous amanitas when, in fact, that is not the case.

[@fattymcbastard6536]

Statements like this cause more harm than good. Anamita muscaria are definitely poisonous. They contain ibotenic acid, which is a neurotoxin. It literally kills brain cells.

[@scottredding2719]

Oh crap I just ate one I wish I watched this video 15 minutes ago!!!!!!

[@FreshCapMushrooms]

should have uploaded earlier, i knew it!

[@scottredding2719]

@@FreshCapMushrooms hahaha, keep up the great work!!

[@derekmnbr77]

"In general mushrooms do not like being eaten". Do mushrooms have own will ??? If they do, so they should not be standing in the place not to end up this way.

[@evilsharkey8954]

Plants don’t, either, which is why so many of them make themselves hairy, pointy, stingy, oily, awful tasting, and/or poisonous. At least most really toxic plants have the decency to taste awful, too. People who’ve survived death cap poisoning have said they were good (not great, though).

[@vane909090]

Don't some mushrooms want to be eaten to spread their spores?

[@FreshCapMushrooms]

for sure- I assume many of the dung loving mushrooms do this

[@bettabgood]

Always makes me wonder why everything has to be so sterile for propagation and then hearing flies, dung spreading spores in the wild.

[@mangethegamer]

Because by then it has established itself and presumably have a strong immune system. And after spreading it's spore it will rot down as it's goal of spreading its spored has been reached, so it won't matter that much.

[@evilsharkey8954]

Because other fungi and bacteria will be happy to colonize your growth media first.

[@dougcalleja8020]

But you said they don’t like to be eaten…😳 I can’t grow and kill anymore… 😂

[@JeusNimrod]

Here, birds the culprits that challenge me for the wood ear.

[@darksoul479]

I don't eat mushrooms that I find in the wild, but I think it's wise to know what they are just in case I ever end up in a survival situation. Thank you.❤

[@MeiziVu]

Glare is mega distracting!!!

[@DM-wb4jv]

Hey anyone chime in . I definitely don't think it's edible but a mushroom with a hole on top and papery and if you accidentally kick or step on them it releases a cloud of spores. Don't know why but always found them interesting... oh area southern ont. Canada

[@johnandjacquelinewarren9979]

Yeah I have been reading recently and it sounds like those puffballs ARE edible which surprised me too lol. I always thought it was a blast to smash them when I came across one tromping through the forest as a kid. But you want to pick them before they get to the papery stage when they're still white and meaty.

[@johnandjacquelinewarren9979]

I did just see a different video that said something about a pigskin puffball that is poisonous, but I think it also had a distinct appearance. Just thought it was worth pointing out that perhaps not ALL puffballs are edible like I thought, but my current impression is still that most are... I'm pretty new to this though. But if you search for puffballs that should get you headed in the direction of more solid information if you want to research further yourself 🙂 (I love that they're literally just called puffballs.)

[@johnandjacquelinewarren9979]

According to a quick Google search, it sounds like the pigskin puffball is technically an "earthball" not a "puffball" since it doesn't have that hole in the top and spread out a puff of spores but just breaks apart when crushed. And it turns out, as there typically is, there is a whole lot more to this rabbit hole than I thought. And I don't have time to dig further right now, but hopefully that at least sort of helps 😅

[@DM-wb4jv]

@@johnandjacquelinewarren9979 these did have holes on top! Thanks

[@ashes9249]

destroying angels bby

[@truthhurts5111]

The Poison Fire Coral can kill you just by touching it.

[@fattymcbastard6536]

Nonsense.

[@shadrach6299]

I remove all of the mushrooms in my yard bc my dogs might eat them. They eat everything else

[@Speedyrolla]

🍄🍄🍄

[@zgillespie4850]

🤞🍄

[@nielsk85]

Milk thistel can save you

[@DylanBegazo]

Don’t let my ex wife see this video 😂

[@wadetaylor4697]

THIS VIDEO SHOWS NOTHING. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME PEOPLE

[@americanrebel413]

Thank you.