The Mystery of Mushrooms with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bryn Dentinger

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.
What is a mycologist? Discover the kingdom of fungi, the crazy chemicals they produce, and how mushrooms have a closer common ancestor to us than plants. How did the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs help the mushrooms? When did humans start using mushrooms for their psychedelic effects?
Why are mushrooms so hard to grow? Learn about the differences between fungus and plant life. Learn about how mycelia are some of the largest single organisms by area. How did some mushrooms come to be hallucinogenic? Should we be farming more mushrooms?
What makes prized mushrooms like truffles so rare? Why can’t we farm them? Could fungi be the key to feeding a future Martian settlement? Learn about what fungi are made of biochemically and how many new species of fungi are found everyday. How do fungi interact with the human microbiome? What is Auto-brewery Syndrome? Plus, could a fungus-based plague cause a zombie apocalypse like the disease featured in The Last of Us?
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00:00 - Introduction: Psilocybin Mushrooms
0:41 - What is Mycology?
3:46 - What is Psilocybin?
5:03 - How The Asteroids Helped the Mushrooms
8:08 - When Did Humans Start Eating Shrooms?
12:26 - Why Are Mushrooms So Hard to Grow?
15:18 - Mycelium & Large Organisms
20:45 - Psilocybin vs. Ayahuasca
26:00 - Should We Farm Mushrooms More?
28:45 - Does Life Have Similarities to The Framework of the Universe?
31:26 - Why Are Truffles So Rare?
33:47 - Mushrooms on a Mars Settlement
37:30 - Fungi & The Human Microbiome
42:22 - Progress in Research
43:48 - Biochemical Wizards
45:07 - New Species of Shrooms
51:17 - The Last of Us Fungus Plague

[@StarTalk]

What’s your favorite mushroom? 🍄

[@bromdulasta]

Portabella

[@pragmaticcrystal]

Lions mane is extraordinary beautiful imo

[@jmanj3917]

The ones I use as part of my therapy...🙂

[@shadowgamer1169]

Chicken of the woods

[@kellyrobinson1780]

Being the gourmand I am, I had to think about that for a while; but I think I'd have to say "tree mushrooms"; the kind that are jelly-like when cooked. Aesthetically? Probably this species I don't know the name of, but they grow usually on rotting logs or roots, can grow pretty large, and turn a bright orange as they mature. Not your stereotypical stem-and-rounded-cap mushroom, but flat and broad, I think.

[@AnjeloValeriano]

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

[@Jennifer-bw7ku]

Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!

[@elizabethwilliams6651]

Yes, dr.sporessss. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

[@IkamiLog]

I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.

[@Jennifer-bw7ku]

Is he on instagram?

[@elizabethwilliams6651]

Yes he is. dr.sporessss

[@stevedugas2806]

I would love to hear you interview Paul Stamets, a mycologist who loves magic mushrooms.

[@SammyLerry]

Pyschcare12

[@SammyLerry]

On instagram ………..?¿

[@AllTerpsNoBrakes]

I SECOND THIS

[@christopherfoxwallace1291]

Tardigrade is my Totem animal

[@carlbartelt9509]

I have read paul's books

[@Culbreth282]

Psilocybin trips happen to be some of the greatest experiences of my entire life.

[@KindHearted-pu8nj]

I've done microdosing for help and it works does cut depression out its been the best remedy I've ever had psilocybin been illegal is actually a crime against humanity

[@RrDls]

I thought I was experienced with psychedelics, but DMT opened up a whole new plane of reality. In fact, it switched reality to something else that was so weird and alien that my brain really couldn't comprehend.

[@JaredHeffernan]

Where do you fetch from?

[@RrDls]

dr.wheelershrooms

[@RrDls]

On Instagram

[@kimberlyroland9394]

Please have this guy on as a regular. This is one of the best of seeing so far I love this episode

[@ToeKneeMarlow]

@@NousTrapper agreed, but they're both entertaining and educational!

[@Mastermindyoung14]

​@@NousTrapperMichael Pollan would be more fitting for this platform

[@RockinRonny420]

Rabbies used to have mushroom trips to commune with God. They wore a hat that looked like a mushroom. Manna from heaven is a mushroom.

[@chesterreeve4491]

0:35 0:54 ​@@ToeKneeMarlow

[@BarryZuckercorn1212]

@@RockinRonny420totally agree 👍🏽

[@jamesonpace726]

Dr D takes the intellectual punches & comes back for more, with great professionalism....

[@SammyLerry]

Pyschcare12

[@SammyLerry]

On instagram ………..?¿

[@SammyLerry]

They have the best shrooms lsd dmt and other psychedelic edibles and ships discreetly to any location.

[@user-wj7gi1wq2j]

Constant interruption with frivolous BS.

[@maryellencook9528]

"Help!" cried the kelp "There's a fungus among us; Disease in the breeze; Malaria in the area!" This little verse is brought to you from Dr. Olin Ferring's 1974 Spring Semester Botany Lab table #4. (And explains why I got a Mercy D in that class.) Chuck, End of Life care encompasses both hospice care and palliative care, and goes beyond pain control.

[@dungysphincter7974]

I've always heard it being said..." At ease disease, there's a fungus among us. "

[@kimberlyroland9394]

Hajaha 😂 Neil looks a whole bottle of wine in! 🍷 Cheers guys!

[@CoconutPete.]

I cannot stop looking at his lackadaisy eyes and his head bobbing around haha

[@kimberlyroland9394]

Lol 😆 I think he's just tired and had a little bit to drink 🍸 cheers to still doing the show 👍

[@billyfarmerii1669]

😂😂😂 I was looking for this comment

[@kimberlyroland9394]

@billyfarmerii1669 Hey, he's a whole grown man, and he definitely deserves to have a few drinks after work. i'm not mad at him!!! If anything, it humanizes him! Cheers, Neil! 🍷🤣❤️❤️❤️

[@dawnssound]

He definitely looks in need of sleep.

[@mackenzieallen]

Something about experiencing reality in a way that humans aren't able to by default is fascinating. My first time I got the typical 'We are all one/connected' realization, or in my case, i thought of all life on earth and earth itself as a living creature or Gaia.

[@Russia-bullies]

It doesn’t beat the assumption/delusion that the universe is a part of a creature.

[@Agustin_R]

When I was tripping on a high dose (to me), I felt like I was dying, I started elevating and seeing my body in the ground and I ascended to the sky thinking I was dead. When I was up there I saw some other souls like mine in the sky and watching humanity from the sky, I saw humans and earth just like a scientist sees bacteria growing, reproducing and dying in their petri plaque. It was craaazy and that caused me an immense existencial crisis that was solved later in the trip. It was the craziest and deepest experience in my life but it was some powerful that I’m not doing it again in many many years

[@rogerfreeman6787]

I have chronic back pain, and I can tell you for sure that psilocybin has amazing pain relief capabilities.

[@ToeKneeMarlow]

Because pain receptor is received in the brain?

[@DouglasRyan-ux9cj]

I have lower back pain (military disability) should I try that?

[@MagiChemical]

I don't think Psilocybin works as a pain killer... But interesting it worked for you

[@MagiChemical]

​@@DouglasRyan-ux9cjPsilocybin helps psychological pain. I never heard it helping with physical pain.

[@_p-x-l_]

@@DouglasRyan-ux9cj your pain is physical his is psychological that's 2 different things. you should go to physio therapy, strengthen your backmuscles and not take hallucinogenic drugs. if you got ptsd or depression it can help if overwatched by a speciallist

[@BallJuiceOfZeus]

Psyllisibin connects you with the universe, helps you feel empathy, shows you things from other people perspective and makes you grateful to be here right now 🙏 ✨️ 🍄 ❤

[@kellyrobinson1780]

🎉Nah; it just screws with your brain chemistry and makes you THINK all that stuff while you're tripping.

[@LAURABOHDAN]

I think they make you feel like you are tripping while you actually have universal clarity.@@kellyrobinson1780

[@patrickbateman4541]

​​@@kellyrobinson1780that " thinking" sticks though. It's such a unusual unique experience you can't look back. The while tripping part of your comment makes it evident you have not tried it. Why not try something before you speak on it?

[@kellyrobinson1780]

@@patrickbateman4541 "...such a(n) unusual unique experience that you can't look back." I can understand that. Point taken. Honest question: isn't psilocybin a hallucinogen? And is it a different experience from acid? Quite right, I've never taken a hallucinogen; but I used to hang with people who did (acid), and I asked them to try to describe the sensations, visual effects, sound alterations, etc.. A pale substitute for the actual experience, but I didn't like the idea that some people get unexpected flashbacks. Didn't want to take that risk. But none of my friends ever said that doing LSD affected their overall outlook on life. That's why I'm asking if psilocybin is a different experience than acid. Still, you have to admit that taking any mood-altering or hallucinogenic substance doesn't change the world, it changes your brain, and it does that by altering your brain's electrochemical activity. But then, thinking it through, I suppose it can be argued that if one BELIEVES that one's relationship with the world has changed, then maybe in fact it has. But my question still stands; is psilocybin different? Thanks.

[@karlenemckie5704]

​@kellyrobinson1780 precisely. Don't under estimate your brain. If you think all these things, and believe it, it's true. You are both everything and nothing. ❤

[@JaysonBumbalough]

The algorithm is working. The first ad break was for hello fresh and the first line of the ad was “I have a large mushroom pizza” 😂

[@BrentRichards-vp1cg]

How is your brother Chris doing? Or Christopher you know how he is

[@karampuk1974]

For me it was Hyunday.

[@Russia-bullies]

😁

[@musicbruv]

I never saw any ads.

[@timcarder2170]

I've enjoyed Psilocybin in my youth. One of my favourite rides, was back in the late 70s early 80s in the winter during a heavy snowfall with those really big snowflakes, just walked around town for hours watching it snow 😊 I've heard the rumors, but I've never hallucinated. Saw tracers on cars taillights that's the extent of it. I found the high to be similar to taking acid, but without the hangover (gut rot) when coming down. The common side effect i had, was sore jaw muscles from laughing so much. 😊😎

[@arghsonofcliff]

Aww snowfall on psychedelics was amazing, riding in a car with snowfall was better than any amusement park ride.

[@arghsonofcliff]

Just think of all the knowledge lost with the desimation of the peoples of North, south and central Americas.

[@hayjust1]

Set n setting. Next chance you get, get good headphones with bass, good long playlist, blankets and a dark room. Take a very large dose and this will be a trip that will transcend the boundaries. :)

[@simsfamily298]

Learning mycology and growing mushrooms is the most enlightening and enjoyable parts of my life ! I can't believe the journey and I'm excited to keep going and learning 🙌 ❤

[@hayjust1]

Now start wild foraging. It's like a scavenger hunt for adults. And you can eat some highly prized edibles. Morels, chanterelles, trumpets, oysters, porchini and so many, many more!!! Get out to your local park and take a look after a good rain storm.

[@pokemontradingcardgamecoll5934]

Psilocybin Cubensis fungi transformed my life and the mind expansion is truly incredible. It is very beneficial to me once in a while to have a good depression reset to guide me as a tool in life. 🍄 🍄

[@hayjust1]

Totally agree

[@dylanyoung465]

The true crown jewel of the magic mushroom kingdom is Panaeolus Cyanescens, most potent mushroom currently known to man and also the most incredibly life changing experience. Far more visual, colorful, joyful, spiritual, and profound, and far less body discomfort. You won't find many people that sell them, really rhe only way is to grow them yourself or pick them wild if you live in a part of the world where they grow naturally. Although cultivated mushrooms seem to be consistently more potent than wild picked, and picking mushrooms can be very dangerous if you aren't experienced and know how to spot potentially dangerous look-alikes.

[@thenerevarine196]

What a fun and educating episode! Bryn is awesome! His speech is so detailed and rich but also clearly structured... A delight to watch!

[@timothymallon]

12:30 I can partially answer your question about why mushrooms are "so hard to grow on purpose". The short answer is, they're not. What's difficult is growing a pure strain of mushroom. I used to work on a mushroom farm that had 3 barns going at all times...2 stories tall. You'd have 1 barn sterilizing, 1 barn growing, and 1 barn harvesting. Then you'd switch. Anyhow, the thing about the mushrooms is, if you're growing them for human consumption, it requires a lot of regulation, a lot of testing of the manure (herbivores with no bad bacteria) , proper sterilization techniques (steam at a very high temperature for days) and sterile millet or other delivery method for the spores. Since the spores are airborne, they need to be affixed to something that can be sown, so you use something like sterile millet (bird seed). The long and short of it is, growing mushrooms is easy, but growing edible mushrooms takes science.

[@GameTimeWhy]

I was reading that growing something like lions mane on a stump or log is a bit easier because no other mushroom looks like it. Dunno if that is true or not.

[@MasteringWoodwinds]

One of the questioners asked about the level of consciousness in fungi which, if I'm not mistaken, went unanswered. The World Science Festival did a fascinating video about intelligence without brains a few years back. It would be great to know if Bryn had any updates on this topic that didn't make the cut for this episode!

[@Russia-bullies]

We need more Bryn Dentingers.

[@samann95014]

Psilocybin insights helped me with my PTSD, lyme disease as well as my addiction to weed.

[@Sicilia928]

I adore Neil, but I have to say that Chuck is an absolute GEM! Smart and so quick witted. I could watch these two banter all day long.

[@FlintReadUK]

I love how Chuck is all jokes and then boom He points out that therapeutic use of hallucinogens at time of death is a "phycological pain reliever", So profound! nice one Chuck Great show as ever guys and great guest too.

[@doitean1342]

I am very lucky to live near the mushroom capitol of the world: Kennett Square PA. You will find mushroom dishes in all the local restaurants and they are cheap to buy in all the local grocery stores. There is a mushroom festival every year where they line the streets with booths and food trucks and you can sample all the different dishes.

[@imoldgregg8]

You know we are in the wrong timeline when Neil Degrasse Tyson talks about mushrooms more often than Joe Rogan 😭

[@sapelesteve]

Excellent program Neil, Chuck & Bryn! Mushrooms are fascinating organisms for sure. Some of my favorite mushrooms are Oyster Mushrooms! I highly recommend reading "Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures" by Merlin Sheldrake. 👍👍🍄🍄🍄🍄👍👍

[@MarkKerwin]

Merlin is amazing

[@Duane_Day]

Great show. Super knowledgeable guest.

[@HazelS71]

Fascinating episode Guys Bryn was a delight to listen to!I i watched a great video here on youtube about how mushrooms ruled the planet at one time millions/billions of years ago and i gained the utmost respect for these genius plants!! the writers on star trek discovery really went wild with the mycelium network idea through the galaxy as a new form of travel which was very interesting concept, also one of my all time favorite video games has glowing mushrooms in the post apocalyptic wastelands of DC and Boston Fallout you can pick the glowing mushrooms and make a stew with them for a slight increase in Radiation resistance!

[@GM-cq6ez]

Fawnghee, Funjai ... Complex and fascinating subject, all the same! Excellent presentation! Thank you.

[@lady_draguliana784]

some of the research I've seen covered regarding psychedelic's for treatment of mental conditions suggests that there can be a "reset" effect to either the overall effected neurological system (like shaking the etch-a-sketch) OR that it resets (or otherwise alters) the sensitivity of the receptors.

[@DCMamvcivmEvony]

Paul Stamets would have been a brilliant addition to this episode. Star Trek agree with me.

[@alswedgin9274]

They got them outa space like ya watch 'Star Trek' and got you all in check.

[@_p-x-l_]

paul is awesome. i would love to have him on a podcast with neil

[@oldcowbb]

lol, the conman who sells mushroom supplements?

[@dieseldabberdoug8285]

He should have he own episode!

[@patrickbateman4541]

​@@oldcowbbwasn't even aware he sells anything and I've probably watched 5 podcasts of him. Quite irrelevant

[@genuinefreewilly5706]

Great guest, With some instruction on picking various indigenous herbs, and tidal sea plants, edible and medicinal mushrooms and wild mollusks , I can identify a few things, and you pass on information, to those who politely ask. Its an adventure and workout picking wild products, best done in groups, and taking the rare opportunity of field courses offered. You can easily get lost, and it happens. In the pacific northwest Chantrelles, pines are among the most prized at the same time usually in early fall they flourish there all manner of boletes, lobster mushrooms as well. Lately I have cooked with amanita mushrooms, in small amounts with no effect just a tasty mushroom. One is always experimenting in moderation with wild products. What is deemed safe to consume one year, can be stringent, taste like crap and toxic the next year. Good picking years for mushrooms come in cycles, it seems. Particular high end mushrooms cannot be cultivated. Perhaps in some far off future. No local is going to share that information, or disclose their special patches and secrets

[@monicafelstead3260]

Feels like I haven't seen Chuck in a while, great to see you man!

[@grampsirishcolleen]

Excellent guest and topic. I learned a thing or two.

[@ThinWaistedPrimaDonna]

24:00 “ I got some Romaine for 20 bucks.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Zhixalom]

The best thing about listening to the podcast versions of these StarTalks, is that it is very hard to hear the picture shaking up and down. 😝😂

[@InnerMindCommunication]

As usual, two bright guys and a guest, blowing my tiny mind. The co hosts here are a great combo.

[@101_Justice]

Bryn is such an interesting man.. awesome episode

[@therookiemycologist]

I love mushrooms. I taught myself how to grow them.

[@jeffreese1828]

Neil looks like he's on the nod , Chuck is obviously high af ! So , Doc McShroom seems the only sane serious one.... and we appreciate his paitiently humoring the zany, obviously altered , behavior of his hosts , who start laughing everytime he gets serious (waiting for the previous hilarity to die down) about answering a question ....... sooooo , great episode !! Was a trip , (pun intended) , and seemed like a good time had by all ! Lol Always blows my mind about the giant (3.5 sq.miles !!!) that is a single entity ! Mind blown !😮

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Great one, very informative

[@Graycy808]

I did lsd in mild doses as well as mushroom occasionally (they made me throw up and I got tired of my whole trip being me sitting on the bathroom floor throwing up and watching the towels breathing) but the many experiences I had were always extremely pleasant I'm glad its helping people to have these events help them so much!

[@ryansmith9135]

Must have seen all of your episodes twice by now haha

[@S1X_Bucks]

Great episode. Really should have had someone who's done them on the episode tho. Duncan Trussle would have been awesome

[@hayjust1]

Paul stamits or Rockefeller.

[@clementblisskrypt464]

Fun fact : In France we use dogs to hunt truffles but we also look at truffle flies ! (from wikipedia, faster than translation haha) : Its larvae develop in truffles, a behavior exploited in the search for truffles. The eggs are deposited in the soil above the fruiting bodies, and the emerging larvae dig for the truffles.

[@MissAmethyst58]

Fascinating!

[@drumzone5]

Chuck! I was thinking the same thing about using mushrooms as a 'skin' for spaceships! Great minds think alike buddy!!!

[@Robin3615]

There's a fungus among us. 🍄 Why invite a mushroom to your party? Because he's a fun guy.

[@R3W5]

EWW 🤢

[@maxmordon7295]

*ba dum tss*.

[@alexisaguilar-mendoza7874]

Wwewweeeeeeeee wake me to go wwewwwq it's LP Ooh ok love 😘 llopli in my ​@@maxmordon7295

[@nuance9000]

This comment is full of shitake. There just isn't "much"room for a fun guy 😅

[@jambonejim1249]

Some people will go to a lot of truffle making a joke.

[@user-zz3zo6pv3d]

Great listen! Learned a lot.

[@ComfortRoller]

I grew up gathering mushrooms of all kinds, my favorites are the shaggymanes/maines, inkycaps. They will pop up through pavement, in round rock under overpasses, the drive thru at jack n the box. I have a big patch in the small lawn at a olive garden where the dishwashers tell me they arnt the mushrooms I want haha. The stems are amazing sautéed in butter.

[@dualshockedofficial]

Just want to say we love you Neil. You have done so much good by just being you and setting a great example for all humans alike. 👏🏽

[@briankoshefsky5916]

Those dudes are so baked LOL

[@ToeKneeMarlow]

This was a fun and educational episode!

[@Beesmakelifegoo]

Wow! Wonderful. Thank you..

[@jonathanlefebvre7474]

19:21 here, there was a discussion about defense mechanisms that I think deserves more arguments. First, the type : There are more active or passive mechanisms of defense characteristics in the nature. Second, the predators you have: Fungus has evolved from very long time and have tried to protect themselves from large spectrum of species. Human is a tiny part. So if the effect is hallucinatory to us, it may be paralytic for something smaller, like a squirrel. Third, the the timeline: Getting high on mushrooms sitting on a couch is very secure, but think at others Human era. If you are high but a sabre tooth tiger try to get into your cave, you may want to rethink your survival chance eating this. Fourth, the group versus individual: defense mechanisms from plant in fungus are group oriented rather than individuals. For a predator, getting sick(at any level) for eating a couple individual of a group, will be enough if it learn where is pain come from, to not eat that again. Therefore the group is safe. So there a lot of spectrum to think of and get outside our little modern human egocentric live to evaluate the effectiveness of a defense mechanisms :)

[@LacTV-videos]

Really great episode guys, absolutely fascinating insights. thanks,.

[@detectivehowardb7]

Chuck-Knology. As always great show thanks guys.

[@dannybell926]

I'm a middle aged white male from the south, so I'm obviously racist, but i want to say I love star talk and enjoy every episode😂. Thanks

[@tonyhayes3950]

Obviously? Shoot I don’t assume that about anyone. No matter where they live or from. That’s a horrible stain that doesn’t wash off.

[@dannybell926]

@@tonyhayes3950 it's a joke. Being a white man in the south, we get called racist all the time just because of where we live

[@Trumpstinks]

They wanted to fit more into this podcast, but there wasn't enough shroom. 😎

[@kellyrobinson1780]

And they couldn't STUFF it all in...

[@Sammasambuddha]

What? They couldn't fit any spore?

[@kevinbarradell8127]

Sorry but surely they couldn't fit any more in because there wasn't mushroom?

[@Sammasambuddha]

@@kevinbarradell8127 The shroom was capped.

[@beancheez2905]

Star Trek also uses a mycelium network in Discovery! They actually used it as a means of transportation! It’s a pretty cool concept

[@_technitium]

Good to have Chuck back 😊

[@VicCarnage]

Am I the only one who’s been pronouncing Psilocybin wrong this whole time

[@whatabouttheearth]

I've only heard it pronounced sill-loh-psi-ben, like silly, low, silence, benjamin

[@VicCarnage]

@@whatabouttheearth same! Thats how I’ve always pronounced it/heard it pronounced

[@whatabouttheearth]

@@VicCarnage Someone in another comment said both are accepted pronunciations 🤷

[@jeremyscungio16]

You should be good with both. Even the best scientists will say data and data differently

[@Space_Kade]

Hello

[@TheRealJoob]

No

[@Space_Kade]

@@TheRealJoob Why

[@TheRealJoob]

oh i don't know 🙂 @@Space_Kade

[@Space_Kade]

@@TheRealJoob oh ok than 😋

[@foongpei]

that was great, thanks for sharing. i always felt we had a mushroom ancestor somewhere down the line.

[@adelitaserena4777]

Great episode 🍄✨

[@Aluran]

Funny enough im picking up some mushrooms Tommorow

[@holmesketrick7]

Listen to RUSH and have fun

[@marcom5134]

Chicken of the woods

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

send them to mars

[@Aluran]

@@theperfectbotsteve4916 will do

[@goodnatureart]

Great podcast. Love the convo about mushrooms, and looking forward to checking out eastern Oregon to see the world's largest mushroom.

[@catylynch7909]

Mushrooms, and escargots ... among my faves!!!

[@taylorbrinkman6544]

Neil, love your 1st Nation artwork.

[@joanfregapane8683]

Terrific episode! Very interesting episode, perhaps especially for us mushroom lovers.

[@MoeFokah]

Love this ep! And would this be a viable alternative to pot? And how do I procure it? Psi that is.

[@carrie1163]

You guys make learning so much fun!!

[@russgroover]

Groovy! Dr. Tyson looks higher than I am.

[@pragmaticcrystal]

I love this 👏

[@clintonhowe88]

Mr. Tyson. Seriously. You should run for president. I know you have a day job and your passion is educating. But you could do so much for us. I think you would win in a landslide. YOU are my president.

[@play2hype875]

Loved this video

[@sheilahardin6868]

I always love your videos

[@happyhill9753]

Really great show. So much information and we laughed.

[@barrymackaben6534]

excellent humor. excellent information. please do more

[@hiiiimymelody]

I love how Regan and social control was explained here so simply by all involved. The normalization is super helpful.

[@doneestoner9945]

I thoroughly enjoyed this show 💙💚💜

[@J9Enterprize]

A lot of times when people get sick or throw up from mushrooms is because they’ve not been grown in a sterile environment or they’re not washed. I enjoyed this. Thank you. I appreciate everyone learning from each other and growing together as species ❤

[@catsmeow1630]

Just started streaming Star Trek Discovery and finished watching the first season and I now have a whole new perception of mycelium 😉

[@anthony..23]

Gracias

[@julianbouquet3536]

Good show! Thanks!

[@peterbreis5407]

Thanks Neil & Friends that was fantastic! Does worry me the number queries about the hallucinogenic qualities of mushrooms. Stay grounded and get your buzz from discoveries instead.

[@jayhughes3843]

No, that is a very ignorant viewpoint. Do you know what all of the following chemicals have in common? morphine GHB beta-phenethylamine (almost identical to amphetamine) DMT, 5-OH-DMT, and 5-MeO-DMT They're all generated in the human body (yes, I said morphine). And another name for _psilocybin_ is _4-PO-DMT_ Psilocybin and the other forms of DMT, e.g. DMT in ayahuasca, have a very nourishing quality about them, indeed there is now evidence that these psychedelic substances induce _neurogenesis_ , also true for the other chems found in ayahuasca, e.g. harmine. Yes, they're dangerous, but they're also healthy for you and some of them are already inside you.

[@peterbreis5407]

@@jayhughes3843 Thank you Jay for straightening me out. Being off your head has made America what it is today. A Nation of very stable Geniuses.

[@jayhughes3843]

@@peterbreis5407 The effects that you're dismissing can also be induced via meditation, for example, a study called _Intensive Insight Meditation: A Phenomonological Study_ documented ‘LSD-melting-like visions’ (LSD is basically a form of DMT) and I just came across an article titled, _Meditation and Ayahuasca Seem to Change the Brain in Similar Ways_

[@jayhughes3843]

@@peterbreis5407 The effects that you're dismissing can also be induced via meditation, for example, a study called _Intensive Insight Meditation: A Phenomonological Study_ documented ‘LSD-melting-like visions’ (LSD is basically a form of DMT) and I just came across something titled, _Meditation and Ayahuasca Seem to Change the Brain in Similar Ways_ I had to butcher this comment a bit to get past the filter.

[@jayhughes3843]

@@peterbreis5407 The effects that you're dismissing can also be induced via meditation, for example, a 1979 study called _Intensive Insight Meditation: A Phenomonological Study_ documented ‘LSD-melting-like visions’ (LSD is basically a form of DMT) and I just came across something titled, _Meditation and Ayahuasca Seem to Change the Brain in Similar Ways_ I had to butcher this comment because of KZbin...

[@SeanYeomans71]

si-loss-o-bin never heard it pronounced that way before! i like it.

[@PaulSmith-tt2cy]

Great question

[@alexis-n.a]

Lol I live on the waterfront in Jersey City! And lived in Hoboken from 2019-2021- great area😂❤ this episode is fantastic btw! Per usual

[@user-rw9wz6cy4g]

This is just flying to me now out of my head.. when he said they don't know why but some change into the trippy version in 4 steps or genes I can't remember lol..well, I blurted out maybe it's seasons. But like to each mushroom itself? But then that makes mushrooms really more mysterious than they already are.. local, function. Maybe like locality seasons and locality seasons of the process all mushrooms go through.. So some like leap year?

[@Mystic_Christopher]

I have been drinking Four Sigmatic reishi & turkey tail mushroom tea at night before bed for 3 or 4 years now. That paired with magnesium glycinate gives me the best sleeps and the best digestion.

[@kincamell2]

Stellar

[@jamessullivan9468]

You guys are the best

[@tmc3178]

I didn't believe the hype and then I took about an eighth first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Changed my life in such a positive way. My ego got out of the way and I found answers to questions I didn't even know I had. Such an enlightening and emotional journey. I was hesitant as I hav/had severe anxiety but once I just let go and let the 🍄 do their thing it was such a warm experience. Highly recommend! Not to be abused

[@hayjust1]

Good for you! And sound advice. They can be fun but they are medicine. They heal. They teach. They are what could heal this world in more ways than just one!!

[@NicholasMastroianna-hq6pl]

Thanks!

[@Nyxiona_the_Primordial_Goddess]

Loved the in-depth look at the world of fungi.❤ Am I the only one who could only focus on the tree in the background? Must clear dead limbs!

[@coloradoterroir8736]

I have tripped on mushrooms once. I quit drinking alcohol the next day (after trying for years) and have had a much easier time sleeping since. Not saying that it will work for everyone, but I can't over state how much that one experience improved my life.

[@dungysphincter7974]

Mushrooms are very important for the soil, and plants. Mushroom mycelium can stretch for miles under the ground. Mushrooms are the cleaners of the planet.

[@shannonschaerer1010]

7ish yrs ago, I stopped being able to consume shelfish. It suddenly started making me very sick. But I only ate 2-3x a year, so I stopped eating it, it wasin't worth the sickness. I don't like mushrooms, so I never eat them. But I got some Shrooms a yr ago (1st time in 7-8 years), & It made me SO SICK!! I even started with a LOW dose, but OMG did I get sick!! My body refused them ENTIRELY!! Then I started checking things out & found out about "Kyten" (spelling?), & when I discovered it is in BOTH mushrooms & shelfish - Everything made sense. There is only 1 way I can get the "effect" without getting sick - by processing ground up mushrooms with 1.5-2.0oz of lemon juice, eventually straining it thru 5 layers of cheese cloth & drinking the lemon juice. It tastes terrible, but works. After an hr of stirring it B4 filtering it, the acid of the lemon juice breaksdown the "Kyten", making it digestible. But it is not a fun way of going about it. Plus it's HARD to get the taste outta yer mouth!! That may be why other people have trouble with mushrooms. My body FORCED it out of me because of the "Kyten.".

[@thinkman5700]

Chuck Nice seems like a Fungi. When it comes to science humor, he doesn’t leave mushroom for improvement. 🍄

[@daveking3494]

So soon we will be able to rename Mars to “ the planet of the mushrooms”.