Mushroom Medicine: Immunity

For millennia, mushrooms have been recognised by many cultures across the world for their medicinal properties - from deep in the tropics to the high reaches of the Arctic circle. Now more than ever our immune systems are in need of support from the presence of damaging pollutants and pathogens that now pervade our environments and threaten our health.

In this special IMMUNITY edition of Mushroom Medicine, you will dive with David Satori into the natural history and pharmacology of several top medicinal mushroom species, and learn the best ways to prepare them and make them part of our daily health practices. Our exploration will cover (but won’t be limited to) turkey tail, reishi, chaga, and birch polypore, just to name a few

The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has sparked a renewed interest in natural, sustainable ways of keeping our immunity optimal, not just to stay healthy ourselves, but also to protect the ones around us. Now, more than ever, the health choices we make have the potential to lessen the burden across society, and medicinal mushrooms are one of many ways to keep your body’s defences functioning as best as they can.

It may come as a surprise, but the science of medicinal mushrooms runs deep, a lot of it corroborating what has been known in traditional societies for a long time. We will take some of that old wisdom and learn how to prepare extractions that pull out just the right compounds needed for your body.

Most importantly, with a heightened appreciation of just how vital fungi are in safeguarding our health, we may build deeper connections with the wild ecosystems from which these fungi arise.

We will explore the following:

- Traditional use of mushrooms throughout history
- How the immune system works, and how mushrooms can optimise it
- How to make double extraction medicines
- How to create your own personal immune strategy

David Satori is a mycologist, teacher, science communicator, and an avid enthusiast of plants and fungi. He’s studying for a master’s degree in Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity, and Conservation from the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and Queen Mary University of London, where he’s researching how wild relatives of crop plants can be used to adapt our food systems in the face of a changing climate.

In 2018, he launched Myceliate, a fungal conservation initiative dedicated to creating solutions for protecting endangered species of fungi in the UK, whilst teaching people about the importance of fungi in our ecosystems, our health and wellbeing, and the need for ecological restoration. He strongly believes that developing a knowledge of the names and uses of wild plants and fungi will lead to a more regenerative and ecologically aware society.

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