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Functional Mushrooms 101

Mushroom Revival Podcast

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Entomopathogenic Fungi

About 420 million years ago, we get arthropod start coming up on lands and arthurpots. And insects love to burrow underground, especially ants, to make their underground sanctuaries. One of the main food sources was nibbling on plant roots, especially also nibbling on fungi. Now, in defence, fungi starts secreting all this chemical war fare,. including rgotamine, one of the precursors to lsd. We see evidence of amphenamines, cathonone, sulcibin, hybrotanic acid which gets converted into muscamal or psychedalic compounds.

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