MOULDS, MUSHROOMS & MEDICINE: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi

Name: MOULDS, MUSHROOMS & MEDICINE: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi
Start: 2024-10-16T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-16T21:15:00+01:00
Location: The Walrus

Schedule

Wed Oct 16 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:15 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Walrus | Brighton, EN

You may not be aware of it, but our overall health and well-being depends on an immense ecosystem of yeasts and moulds inside our body and all around us. From beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic moulds that cause disease, our immune systems are engaged in continuous conversation with the teeming mycobiome inside the body, and when this peaceful coexistence is disturbed we can fall prey to serious and even life-threatening infections.
Join mycologist, Nicholas Money, as he takes us on a tour of the marvellous unseen realm within us and also sheds light on our complicated relationship with fungi outside the body, from wild mushrooms and cultivated moulds that have been staples of the human diet for millennia to the controversial experimentation with magic mushrooms in the treatment of depression.

Nicholas Money will be 'In Conversation' with Clare Blencowe from Kew Gardens' Darwin Tree of Life Project and will also be signing copies of his latest book 'Moulds, Mushrooms & Medicine', which will be available for purchase on the night.