- I think our discovery of using
these mushroom mycelial extracts
opens up doors of opportunity for preventing pandemics.
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Harnessing the biological potential of organisms
on this planet I think is a game-changer,
and it's a sustainable game-changer.
You know, provided we have an ecosystem
that gives us air and clean water,
if we can live in harmony with nature,
then we are able to harness nature
for these paradigm-shifting solutions.
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Well, this is what's so great about
this next generation of mycologists and mycophiles is that
mycelium for textiles looks really great.
Stella McCartney and I,
Paul McCartney's daughter and I are in communication.
She's a very big proponent.
There's a company called Bolt.
It is one of several companies,
but it's the company that I'm most familiar with,
but they have just taken this to the next level,
and the reishi mushroom mycelium is
really conducive for replacing fabrics.
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All these people growing fungi,
and it tastes like meat,
and they have this sort of faux meat mushroom
mycelial-based meat product.
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Our discovery of using
these mushroom mycelial extracts
opens up doors of opportunity for preventing pandemics
of viruses coming from pigs, or swine,
coming from chickens, or ducks, or other types of fowl.
We can show that we can up-regulate the immunity,
so they can naturally defend themselves
against pathogens, including viruses.
Many of these pathogens are also, unfortunately,
make the infected individual
more susceptible to other diseases,
fungal and bacterial pathogens.
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When you have depressed immunity,
opportunistic pathogens can take over.
So it's really unfortunate.
Some people with a bad immune system, they break their leg,
they go to the hospital, they get it set,
they get exposed to a pathogenic staph bacteria,
they die from staph.
Well, they broke their leg,
and then they died from an infection.
This is unfortunately not uncommon,
and increasingly so
with the drug-resistant strains of bacteria.
So hospitals can become vectors of pathogens.
I think COVID has really made people focused on this,
that the invisible realm can have
a traumatic impact on the macroscopic world,
and us that live in the macroscopic world,
although we can not see the viruses,
we can see the consequences of viral infection.
So I think this is
a paradigm-shifting potential breakthrough.
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It doesn't get any bigger than this, folks.
These are truly paradigm-shifting solutions,
all centered on mushrooms,
which were disavowed and ignored as being silly science,
or something of no importance,
and yet, now they're being elevated
to being one of the most,
some of the most important organisms in a world,
because they're scalable.
We can reproduce them.
We can grow them.
They're regenerative.
And so, they don't exploit the natural resources,
like mining does, or petroleum extraction.
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