By Graeme J. Hankey — 2012
It is said that we are what we eat. It is advertised that vitamin supplements, of one kind or another, may invigorate us, our lives, and our health.
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“When we cut down the old-growth forests, we are potentially losing genomic libraries that could have a strain of fungi that could have enormous implications for human biosecurity, and moreover, habitat health,” says mycologist Paul Stamets.
Now, the famous mushroom scientist wants to create a research station on a remote island to protect old-growth forests containing a rare type of ancient fungus which he believes could protect people against COVID-19, or even future pandemics.
For those psychedelic users who experience post-use “spiritual comedowns”, psychedelic withdrawals, or a general sense of dopamine depletion, what can be done to alleviate these symptoms?
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In our own era of mysterious diseases, the supposition that some plants might cure the human organs they most resemble is surfacing once more.
Americans pour billions of dollars into supplements every year—an investment in health or money down the drain?
In the last few years, a number of studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine underscored a fact that scientists have become increasingly sure of: The vast majority of vitamins and mineral supplements are simply not worth taking.
Half of all American adults—including 70 percent of those age 65 and older—take a multivitamin or another vitamin or mineral supplement regularly.
Stephen Harrod Buhner is a generalist, a scholar of all things, both human and not. He is best known as a writer, but the interviewer first came to his work through his talks, which take the shape of digressive odysseys led by a relentlessly curious mind.