Moulds, Mushrooms & Medicine: Our Lifelong Relationship With Fungi

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 you 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.