Good Food How Mushrooms Can Save the World Paul Stamets is an American mycologist and the author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. He also owns and operates Fungi Perfecti , ...

Paul Stamets, celebrated mycologist and founder of Fungi Perfecti, LLC, makers of Host Defense® Mushrooms™, is spearheading the integration of mushrooms into modern wellness. For over four decades, ...

Fungi Perfecti, an online store selling mushroom cultivation kits and supplies. Last month, Evan spoke with Stamets about his conviction that mushrooms can save the world.

Their friendship was rooted in a mutual love of mushrooms. Paul Stamets and Jeff Chilton met in 1978 in Olympia, Wash. Back then, Stamets was a student and aspiring mycologist, and Chilton was a ...

But according to Stamets, “to say that rice substrate, being cultured by mycelium as it grows through it, is just rice, inert or a filler are lies.” He acknowledges that beta-glucans are important, ...