Mushroom Revival Podcast

By Alex Dorr

Natural Sciences Alternative Health

What's Mushroom Revival Podcast about?

A podcast devoted to the wonderful world of fungi. Our eclectic show covers fungi in health & wellness, technology, science, culture and more. Welcome to the Mushroom Revival.

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Mushrooms on Madagascar wit...

11.27.2023

Today we take a trip to Madagascar with Mauro Rivas-Ferreiro to discover the biodiversity of fungi on the island. From mycorrhizal fungi to more, we talk optimal ecosystems, rare plants, and future research needed on the island.

Mushroom Revival Podcast episodes:

11.27.2023 Mushrooms on Madagascar with Mauro Rivas-Ferreiro Today we take a trip to Madagascar with Mauro Rivas-Ferreiro to discover the biodiversity of fungi on the island. From mycorrhizal fungi to more, we talk optimal ecosystems, rare plants, and future research needed on the island.
11.17.2023 Mushroom Architecture with PLP labs The future of architecture is partnering with fungi. Even beyond this, it's partnering with nature as a whole, a stance that is referred to as going from the athropocene to the symbiocene as a human race. We sit down with ...
11.13.2023 Treating PTSD of Veterans with Psilocybin with Lauren Myers We sit down today with Lauren Myers to talk about her work with VETS, an organization that helps veterans and their spouses access treatment with psychedelic therapies including iboga/ibogaine, ketamine, psilocybin, MDMA, 5-MeO-DMT, and ayahuasca. What's it like being in ...
11.06.2023 How to Become a Psilocybin Therapist with Dr. Erica Zelfand Oregon was the first state in the United States to legalize psilocybin for medical use. We sit down with Dr. Erica Zelfand, the lead educator in the nation's first HECC-licensed training program for psilocybin facilitators to talk about what it ...
10.20.2023 Fireproof Mycelial Wallpaper with Tien Huynh What if we can fireproof our home with mycelium? Just in the US alone around 358,500 homes experience a structural fire and 3,000 people die each year. We chat with Dr. Tien Huyn, an associate professor in the School of ...
10.13.2023 Degrading plastics then curing cancer using Aspergillus nidulans with Berl Oakley Berl Oakley and his team are using Aspergillus nidulans to degrade plastic and then using the secondary metabolites to then cure cancer, make antibiotics, statins, antifungals and more to save people's lives. Talk about killing two birds with one stone. ...
10.06.2023 Mushroom Embroidery with Amanda Cobbett Amanda Cobbett is an award-winning textile artist with over 25 years’ experience making realistic three dimensional embroidery sculptures of mushrooms and lichen. They are so life like it will be hard for your brain to process they aren't real. We ...
09.29.2023 Mushrooms in Hawaii with Malama Mushrooms In our fourth ever in person podcast episode we sit down with Ben and Amanda, the super rad brother and sister duo at Malama Mushrooms. We chat about what it's like throwing a mushroom festival, the ins and outs of ...
09.26.2023 Running a Mushroom Farm with Erik Lomen of Maine Cap N' Stem Maine Cap N Stem Started in 2014 cultivating a variety of gourmet mushrooms from spore to store, then became the first national producer and distributor of Certified Organic Mushroom Substrate for small and large farms across the continental USA. We ...
09.20.2023 Legal Psilocybin Therapy with Hadas Alterman How does one get accredited to become a psilocybin facilitator? What are the rules and regulations currently in place in Oregon? What does the legal future look like for psilocybin assisted therapy? We chat with Hadas Alterman, JD from Berkley ...
09.11.2023 Treating Anorexia with Psilocybin with Dr. Stephanie Knatz Peck Anxiety can wreak havoc on people and develop into more serious disorders including Anorexia nervosa. We chat with UCSD Associate Clinical Professor & Psychologist, Psychedelic clinician and researcher, Dr. Stephanie Knatz Peck, to dive deep into this topic and explore ...
08.28.2023 Mushroom Hunting For Kids with Melany Kahn Are you a current or aspiring parent and want to teach your kiddos about mushrooms? This is the episode for you. We chat with Tedx speaker and published author Melany Kahn about teaching little humans about the wonderful world of ...
08.18.2023 How Temperature Makes Fungi Kill us or Heal us with Dr. Arturo Casadevall and Dr. Radames J. B. Cordero When an astroid hit earth and fungi took over, warm blooded mammals were able to survive better than cold blooded amphibians because their higher temperature gave them better resistance to fungal diseases. Since then fungi have been evolving and new ...
08.14.2023 Psychedelic Satire with Dennis Walker of Mycopreneur The psychedelic green rush is here with venture capitalists, health gurus, life coaches, neo shamans, biohackers, and spiritual narcissists lining at the doors to get a piece of the pie. Of course we need a court jester to poke fun ...
08.03.2023 Bat Killing Fungus Taking Over with Alyssa Bennett The white-nose syndrome is a deadly fungus killing bats around the world and is quickly spreading in North America. We sit down with Alyssa Bennett who's dedicated her life to researching this phenomenon and help these endangered bats. Sign up ...
07.28.2023 Oomycota and fungal biotech with Mitch Roth Today we sit down with almost pro hockey player turned fungal laboratory scientist Mitch Roth. We chat about plant pathogens, DNA sequencing, genetic engineering, fungal biotech, Oomycota, and more. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will ...
07.21.2023 Mushroom Dyes and Pigments with Julie Beeler Nature is filled with an incredible array of colors, some of which can only come from mushrooms. We chat with artist Julie Beeler, who has dedicated her life to studying the dyes and pigments from mushrooms, and even created an ...
07.06.2023 Psilocybe science with Doma Nunzio We step into a mad scientist's laboratory to dive deep into the world of magic mushrooms. Doma Nunzio is the founder of MagicMyco, MycoCoil, The Cultivar Cup and has won the Psilocybin Cup. He is a master of magic mushroom ...
06.28.2023 Mushroom Sculptures with Chris Ritson Normally people put posters or paintings on their wall but Chris Ritson is opening up the possibility for people to put living mushroom art in their home. Bioart is the process that people work with biology to make art, and ...
06.07.2023 The Secret Electrical Language of Mushrooms with Yu Fukasawa Are mushrooms communicating with each other using electricity? Are we one day able to crack this secret code and decipher this language so one day we'll be able to talk to fungi and mushrooms? Well... quite possibly. Today we sit ...
05.25.2023 Mushroom Spores in Prehistoric Poop with Dunia Urrego and Felix Pym Prehistoric animals pooped out mushroom spores as far back as 23,000 years ago and we are now today finding them and learning about what life was like back then. Peat bogs, the bottom of lakes, frozen areas, and amber are ...
05.17.2023 Quit Your Job and Dedicate Your Life to Mushrooms - John Michelotti We sit down with a longtime dear friend and man of many talents, John Michelotti. Founder of Catskill Fungi, past president of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA) , co-founder of the Catskill Regional Mycoflora Project as well as the Gary ...
05.10.2023 Beetles Team with Fungi to Eat Trees - Jonathan Gershenzon Bark beetles have decimated millions of hectares of conifer forests in Europe in recent years and are attracted to trees that have a certain partner fungi already eating the tree. When the certain fungi starts metabolizing the spruce resin compounds ...
05.03.2023 Magic Mushroom Testing with Ian Bollinger from Hyphae Labs Ever wondered what was inside magic mushrooms that made them work? Are some varieties more potent than others? Do you grow your own and wondering how the potency stands up against others out there? We're joined by Ian Bollinger of ...
04.24.2023 Fungal Conservation with Gabriela D'elia from Fungal Diversity Survey Some scientists estimate we've only described around 120,000 out of the 5,000,000 undescribed species waiting to be discovered. During the destructive anthropocene, we are losing biodiversity at an alarming rate, fasting than we can discover them. Citizen scientists and groups ...
04.13.2023 Finding New Species of Fungi with The Kew Fungarium This week on the Mushroom Revival Podcast, Alex Dorr is joined by lead mycologist Tuula Niskanen and Alyona Biketova of Kew's Fungarium. Holding over 1.25 million dried specimens, Kew's Fungarium collection is the largest, one of the oldest and most ...
04.03.2023 Mycelium Meat with Kinoko Tech Kinoko-Tech is an Israel-based B2B company developing high-quality protein plant-based foods by “harnessing fermentation to elevate healthy food to superfood”. Today we sit down with co-founder and CEO, DR. JASMIN RAVID, Ph.D. in plant sciences, B.Sc. in Nutritional Sciences. How ...
03.22.2023 Commercial Spawn Production with Kasper Moreaux from Mycelia Any mushroom farm in the world starts their process with mushroom spawn. Mycelia is one of the largest spawn producers in the world suppling some of the largest mushroom producers in the globe. We chat about challenges, innovations, finding and ...
03.15.2023 Psilocybe azurescens with Hamilton Pevec The rare and illustrious Psilocybe azurescens is the most potent magic mushroom in the world and also happens to be one of the most evasive species to find. We sit down with Hamilton Pevec who just released a multiple award ...
03.08.2023 Mushrooms in Guatemala with Jasper from Fungi Academy If you've never heard of Fungi Adademy, you're sleeping on one of the greats. Based on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, they've been hosting mushroom events for years and now recently online with their new courses. We break it down with ...
03.01.2023 Mushrooms in Alaska with Alannah Johnson We're traveling to cold Alaska on this episode to geek out with Alannah Johnson of New Earth Fungi, to talk about mushrooms in Alaska. We cover everything from starting and running a mushroom farm, ethnomycology of Alaska, navigating the mushroom ...
02.22.2023 Medical Psilocybin with Carlton Spotswood, PMHNP-BC Carlton Spotswood, PMHNP-BC, aka “EntheoNurse” is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who treats children, adolescents and adult patients at Winthrop Family Medicine, and also recent author of “The Microdosing Guidebook: A Step-by-Step Manual to Improve Your Physical and ...
02.17.2023 Psychedelics in the Middle East with Haya Al-Hejailan Today we bring on Haya Al-Hejailan to talk about the rise of psychedelic therapy, with an emphasis on psilocybin therapy, in the Middle East. We discuss the different laws in different countries, the state of research, current and future projects, ...
01.30.2023 Fungus Farming Ants with Pepijn Kooij Lots of people have seen videos of leaf cutter ants, the lines of ants carrying leafs on their back to go back to their next, but very few people know what they are actually using those leafs for. Surprising to ...
01.18.2023 Mo’orea’s hidden treasure trove of fungi with Matteo Garbelotto The remote volcanic French Polynesian Island Mo'orea, near Tahiti, happens to be a hidden treasure trove of unique fungi and mushrooms. Matteo Gabelotto and a team of researchers spent months trekking into tough virgin jungle and even hanging off sides ...
01.06.2023 Growing Mushrooms with Field and Forest In todays episode we sit down with the fine fungal folks at Field and Forest to talk about their beginnings, the evolution of the mushroom growing industry in the US, how people can grow their own mushrooms at home or ...
12.21.2022 Mushrooms in Uganda with Josephine Nakakande Josephine Nakakande is the bubbly passionate mushroom saint of Uganda empowering thousands of women of Uganda to become mushroom farmers. We chat about mushroom growing in Uganda, training these young girls and women how to start their own mushroom farms, ...
11.30.2022 Building a Mushroom Empire with Tero Isokauppila TERO ISOKAUPPILA is the founder and CEO of Four Sigmatic. We chat about the history of the business, the challenges of building a mushroom company, advice for other mushroom lovers wanting to turn their passion into something that also pays ...
11.11.2022 Mushroom Material Art with Mari Koppanen Mycomaterials - from kombucha leather, to mycelial furniture, bags, vests, dyes, functional jewelry and more. We bring on Mari Koppanen, a Finnish designer currently working on her Ph.D. in Artistic Research at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts to ...
11.02.2022 Mushrooms of the Himalayas of Nepal with Richard Silber Our newest guest on the podcast is the executive director at International Mountain Trekking and a co-founder of the Himalayan Climate & Science Institute Richard Silber. Richard Silber, a mountaineer and biologist leads mushroom trips to the Himalayas in the ...
10.21.2022 Commercial Psilocybin and the Entourage Effect with Dr. Darryl Hudson This week on the Mushroom Revival pod, we're talking with Dr. Darryl Hudson, a Canadian PhD molecular biologist with a background in breeding, cultivation, extraction and formulation with cannabis, who is now one of the lead researchers in psilocybin. We'll ...
10.12.2022 Brewing Psilocybin with Dr. J Andrew Jones On the Mushroom Revival Podcast, lead researcher of the E. coli psilocybin project, J. Andrew Jones, PhD., discusses the idea of producing psilocybin and other mushroom compounds in a bioreactor to use for clinical trials, affordably on a commercial scale. ...
09.23.2022 Mushrooms in Mexico with Laura Guzman Davalos Laura Guzmán-Dávalos is the most famous woman Mexican mycologist working since 1983 at University of Guadalajara in Jalisco State. Laura is a well-respected mycologist in Mexico and daughter of the world-renowned Gaston Guzman, THE world authority on the genus Psilocybe ...
09.14.2022 Foraging Mushrooms with Gabrielle Cerberville (@ChaoticForager) Gabrielle Cerberville has a famous educational TikTok channel boasting almost a million followers, where she creates engaging videos educating shroom noobies on the wonderful world of functional fungi. Join us on the Mushroom Revival Podcast to talk foraging tips and ...
09.08.2022 Adaptogens 101 with Tero Isokauppila and Danielle Ryan Broida Adaptogens are herbs or mushrooms that help our body adapt to occasional stress and fatigue. They have been used all around the world for thousands of years and are all the rage right now, for a very good reason. We ...
08.31.2022 Mushrooms Worth Their Weight in Gold (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) - With ‪Zhengyang Wang‬ One of the most famous mushrooms of all time is actually worth its weight in gold because of its rarity - Ophiocordyceps sinensis. This mushroom is also called caterpillar fungus, yartsa gunbu, or winter worm summer grass, and is a ...
08.24.2022 Mycelial Coffins with Loop Biotech The Loop Living Cocoon is the world's first living coffin designed by Bob Hendrikx of Loop Biotech. We talk about: - How the mycelial coffin is made - The laws and regulations behind different burial practices - The environmental impacts ...
08.19.2022 Mushroom Permaculture with Kris Holstrom Do you have a permaculture farm already? Dreaming one up? Looking to incorporate mushrooms in your homestead visions? Hear Kris's insights on running a permaculture farm, taking interns and WOOFers, teaching kids, growing mushrooms and crops in a drought, and ...
08.12.2022 Microdosing Psilocybin with Dr. James Fadiman Today we bring on Dr. James Fadiman, arguably the person responsible for making microdosing magic mushrooms popular. We talk about the current research, the benefits, safety, dosage, set, setting, history and so much more. Ever wanted to try microdosing? Don't ...
08.05.2022 Psychedelics and Virtual Reality Today's episode we go full force into the metaverse with Enosis Therapeutics who are researching using virtual reality and psychedelics. Talk about a black mirror episode coming true! From treating acrophobia, aerophobia, agoraphobia, and more. Psychedelics mixed with virtual reality ...

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