As many of you already know, I am a fan of mushrooms and weed. I've become friends with someone that grows mushrooms and has even began creating their own varieties or subspecies of mushrooms. It is a lot more complicated than creating a new strain of cannabis.
He starts by either collecting spores or makes cuts off the fruiting body of one variety of mushrooms and placing the cutting in an agar plate. Then after a while, he checks things under microscopes and looks for certain things to isolate and then transfer to other plates and does some other sciencey type stuff. It is all way over my head at the moment, but it takes about a year or more to isolate a new variety and get it ready for colonization and growth.
One cool thing about magic mushrooms that scientists are finding out is that the psilocybin in the mushrooms actually has a lot of different health benefits. It has been shown to regenerate cells in mice, increasing their life span. That means I should be pretty much immortal with how often I plan on consuming these throughout the remainder of my life.
They are also finding out that there are many different alkaloids in the mushrooms that have many different health benefits, like reducing inflammation and helping with pain. I have noticed that different varieties of mushrooms have a different body effect for me.
Some varieties relax my body so much that I barely want to move and it makes my body kind of buzz, while others seem to make it hard for me to sit still while on them.
It is really cool that science is starting to really research these things and find out how they work within the body. They have been used for thousands of years but modern science doesn't seem to truly understand them and their benefits.
It will be cool to see in the next few years how things change within healthcare as we make more advances now that AI is helping to make advances happen so quickly. It is a pretty cool time to be alive to witness all of this.
