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Hey there, shroomers 🍄

Happy Friday! Here’s what we found while foraging ‘round the mushroom world this week…

Eye candy🍭

Kami Goertz creates marvelous mushrooms out of textiles, textures, and pure magic. Check out Kami’s other mushroom creations here!

Growing gourmet 🥛

No whey: Israel’s ImaginDairy teamed up with American biotech Ginkgo Bioworks to scale milk production, using fungi to bioengineer milk proteins.

Know before you forage: AI identification apps seem handy … but officials warn of the high potential for toxic misinformation from unverified AI sources.

No shiitake? Shiitake mushrooms can alter the flavor of Huangjiu, a Chinese rice wine, by providing nutrition for helpful bacteria and boosting fermentation.

Legislation nation ⚖

No veto: Utah will soon let state hospitals and researchers develop behavioral health treatment programs using psilocybin and MDMA.

So close: Maine walked back a bill that would’ve legalized psilocybin, instead voting to establish a committee to research potential psychedelic services.

Not just headaches: A Member of Parliament is urging UK officials to research psilocybin as a treatment for a “national crisis” of migraine sufferers.

Research roundup 🔬 

Déjà shroom: The University of Calgary is about to study how psilocybin could help treat Alcohol Use Disorder. (Sound familiar?)

Deep meditation: New brain imaging research shows that psilocybin “enhances insightfulness” during meditation sessions.

Across the shroomer-verse 🌌 

Wellness + nutrition: shroomer’s Brandon Rich is your guide to the nutritious and therapeutic world of functional fungi. Start your mushroom routine here!

From stir-fry to fake bacon: Low in calories, high in Vitamin C and Vitamin B5 … you’ll want to try these shiitake recipes for a nutrient-dense blast of umami flavor!