Bibliography

Reading material:

Newman, Kara. (2013). The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. New York: Columbia University Press.

This book is about what has been going on behind the scenes of the food consumer market. Newman goes into detail of the history of food economy, and the consumer relationship with food. Topics such as wall street’s influence and food grade are discussed. Many more consumer related topics are covered.

Tompkins, Kyla Wazana. (2012). Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century. New York: New York University Press.

The topic of this book covers racial and sexists asociations with food, the kitchen and the hearth in the 19th century. Tompkins talks about children’s stories and advertisements that contain racial and class discrimination. Tompkins also goes into the idea of cannibalistic symbolisms in food.

Myers, W. (2015). Biotechnology: Bio Art: Altered Realities. Science, 349(6252), 1063.

This is a book of art relating to human impact on the Earth. There are many pictures of art reflecting human impact on nature, through a range of different medias: paintings, photos, sculptures, mixed media, etc.

Rogers, R. D. (2006). The fungal pharmacy: Medicinal mushrooms of western Canada. Edmonton, Alta.: Prairie Deva Press.

This is a guide to medicinal fungi native to western Canada. This book has an incredible amount of information covering fungi chemical constituents, medicinal uses, clinical studies, history, etc.

Stamets, P. (2000). Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms: =. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press.

This book is about growing mushrooms at home, or commercially, for food and medicine. This book includes a troubleshooting guide, information on mushroom medicinal properties, and growing guidelines for 31 species of mushrooms.

Stamets, P., & Chilton, J. S. (1983). The mushroom cultivator: A practical guide to growing mushrooms at home. Olympia, WA: Agarikon Press.

This book is a very helpful step-by-step guide to cultivating mushrooms at home. This book covers proper techniques for sterilization, cultivation, harvesting, refining genetics and much more.

Videos on Youtube:

Paul Stamets – How Mushrooms Can Save Us from Ourselves

This is an interview with Paul Stamets. Paul talks about fungi evolution, gericon mushrooms and the medicinal properties of fungus – such as penicillin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-9zzXuZ2h4

Paul Stamets – The Future is Fungi [how to save the planet]

This video is of Paul Stamets giving a speech in Australia. Paul presents ideas for saving the planet though fungi. He speaks about how human evolution may have been influenced by fungi, how fungi have a mycorrhizal symbiosis with plants, and discusses many more interesting details – such as how fungi eat rocks and may have helped with the beginning of Earth’s soil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwLviP7KaAc&t=4s

Paul Stamets – Report from the Underground | Bioneers

This is a video of Paul Stamets giving a speech on mushrooms, and how they can save the human species. He talks about mushrooms’ relationship with bees, the importance of fungi biodiversity, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAw_Zzge49c

Joe Rogan Experience #901 – Dr. Rhonda Patrick

This is a podcast with guest Dr. Rhonda Patrick. Rhonda talks about many different nutritional compounds found in fruits and vegetables, and the importance of vitamins. In this episode, one topic discussed was Sulforaphane and how it can activate NRF2 pathways. This has a great number of positive affects on your body, such as helping with inflammation and cancer prevention, etc,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxM_CLsvieE

Joe Rogan Experience #459 – Dr. Rhonda Patrick

This is a podcast with guest Dr. Rhonda Patrick. Rhonda talks about many different nutritional compounds found in fruits and vegetables, and the importance of vitamins. In this episode Rhonda talks about Biochemical pathways and their complexity. She also talks about the importance of vitamin and mineral supplementation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh0xB4OJdpQ&t=199s

Joe Rogan Experience #672 – Dr. Rhonda Patrick

This is a podcast with guest Dr. Rhonda Patrick. Rhonda continues the discussion on nutritional compounds found in fruits and vegetables and the importance of vitamins. In this podcast, she dives into topics such as cryotherapy, and how much the medical system currently lacks education on nutrition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FApCVOXoweU

Joe Rogan Experience #773 – Dr. Rhonda Patrick

This is a podcast with guest Dr. Rhonda Patrick. This podcast Rhonda talks about the importance of exercise to invoke a stress response, and the hormones released during the process. The harmful effects of sugar are also discussed. (All these podcast with Dr. Rhonda Patrick are dense with nutritional information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDJdk0j4xnM&t=26s

Smart Drug Smarts – Lion’s Mane Mushroom

This is a podcast that discusses the health benefits of lion’s mane mushrooms. It also goes into the relationship fungi share with plants.

http://smartdrugsmarts.com/episode-82-mushroom/

Smart Drug Smarts – Psilocybin and the Potential for “Psychedelic Therapies”

This podcast talks about how Psychedelic mushrooms can be used as therapy. This includes therapies for depression, anxiety and even nicotine addictions.

http://smartdrugsmarts.com/episode-116-psilocybin/