I put out a video here about how mushrooms can cut the risk of getting cancer by about 43%, but can they sometimes cause it as well?
The side effects of raw mushrooms. Microwaving is probably the most efficient way to reduce agaritine levels in fresh mushrooms.
Is It Safe to Eat Raw Mushrooms?
How Are Mushrooms More Similar to Humans than Plants?
Upon seeing a mushroom, most people would immediately view it as a vegetative organism, one that is closely related to plants. However, as recent research has shown, mushrooms are, in fact, more closely related to humans than to plants!
Haven’t you ever noticed that eating a perfectly cooked portobello mushroom feels a lot closer to eating meat than a salad? Well, that isn’t exactly a scientific explanation of the connection, but genetic studies show that there may be a common ancestor from which both animals and fungi evolved.
Science ABC
Fungi are the next big killers.
ReplyDeleteA Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy
Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed that he was infected with a newly discovered germ as deadly as it was mysterious. Doctors swiftly isolated him in the intensive care unit.
The germ, a fungus called Candida auris, preys on people with weakened immune systems, and it is quietly spreading across the globe. Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a prestigious British medical center to shut down its intensive care unit, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa.
Recently C. auris reached New York, New Jersey and Illinois, leading the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to add it to a list of germs deemed “urgent threats.”
The man at Mount Sinai died after 90 days in the hospital, but C. auris did not. Tests showed it was everywhere in his room, so invasive that the hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it.
“Everything was positive — the walls, the bed, the doors, the curtains, the phones, the sink, the whiteboard, the poles, the pump,” said Dr. Scott Lorin, the hospital’s president. “The mattress, the bed rails, the canister holes, the window shades, the ceiling, everything in the room was positive.”
C. auris is so tenacious, in part, because it is impervious to major antifungal medications, making it a new example of one of the world’s most intractable health threats: the rise of drug-resistant infections.
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy
Fvck!
DeleteSo now you guys think your great great great….. great grandfather was a mushroom?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteSo if I start calling you guys mushroom heads then you would take that as a compliment?
Further to my comment, this Washington Post article links the rise of Candida auris to global warming.
ReplyDeleteDeadly fungal disease may be linked to climate change, study suggests
Researchers have never been able to isolate the fungus from the natural environment or figure out how genetically distinct versions emerged independently at roughly the same time in India, South Africa and South America.
Now researchers in the United States and the Netherlands have a new theory: They propose that global warming may have played a key role and suggest that this may be the first example of a new fungal disease emerging from climate change, according to a study published Tuesday in mBio, a journal of the American Society of Microbiology.
Fungal infections in humans are rare. Mammals have more advanced immune systems than other organisms at risk of fungal infections, and most fungi in the environment cannot grow at the temperatures of the human body, said Arturo Casadevall, one of the authors of the new study, who is a microbiologist and immunologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
But as the climate has gotten warmer, the researchers say C. auris was able to adapt, which helped it replicate in the human body’s temperature of 37 degrees Celsius. Casadevall and colleagues from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in Utrecht in the Netherlands compared C. auris to its most closely related species, and found that the deadly yeast was capable of growing at higher temperatures.
(The fungus was discovered in a Japanese woman’s ear in 2009; “auris” is Latin for ear.)
source: Deadly fungal disease may be linked to climate change, study suggests
Wikipedia: Candida auris
So if I start calling you guys mushroom heads then you would take that as a compliment?
ReplyDeleteMatt, you think Trump took it as a compliment when Stormy Daniels described his pecker thusly; “a stubby mushroom head”?
Me, I like chocolate truffles:)
“So now you guys think your great great great….. great grandfather was a mushroom?!?!?!“
ReplyDeleteAh! The mystery of brain farts. Where do the come from? How do the appear? Do they smell?