Paul Stamets next to Bridgeoporus (Oxyporus) nobilissimus.

Paul Stamets (born July 17, 1955) is a mycologist and mushroom aficionado. He is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, and an advisor to the Program for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Medical School, Tucson, Arizona. He is active in researching the medicinal properties of mushrooms, and is involved in two NIH funded clinical studies on cancer and HIV treatments using mushrooms as adjunct therapies. Having filed numerous patents on the antiviral, mycopesticidal, and mycoremediative properties of mushroom mycelia, his work has been called pioneering and visionary. A strong advocate of preserving biodiversity (mycodiversity), he supports research into the role of mushrooms for ecological restoration. He has written numerous books and papers on the subject of mushroom identification and cultivation. He has a particular interest in the hallucinogenic Psilocybin mushrooms, and has produced a guide book to them, Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Aside from Psilocybin mushrooms, he has also written about the cultivation and use of many edible and medicinal fungi. He has also discovered four new species of mushrooms. Image File history File links Paul_Stamets_by_oxyporus. ... Image File history File links Paul_Stamets_by_oxyporus. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mycology (from Gk. ... Basidiocarps (mushrooms) of the fungus Leucocoprinus sp. ... Psilocybin (4-phosphoryloxy-N, N-dimethyltryptamine) is a psychedelic alkaloid of the tryptamine family. ...

He is an advocate of the permaculture system of growing, for which he sees fungiculture as a valuable but underutilised part. He is also a leading researcher into the use of mushrooms in bioremediation, processes he terms mycoremediation and mycofiltration. Permaculture Mandala illustration by Graham Burnett, summarising the ethics and principles of permaculture design. ... Fungiculture is the process of producing food, medicine, and other products by the cultivation of mushrooms and other fungi. ... Bioremediation can be defined as any process that uses microorganisms or their enzymes to return the environment altered by contaminants to its original condition. ... Mycoremediation is a form of bioremediation, the process of using mushrooms to return an environment altered by contaminants to its original condition. ... Mycofiltration is the process of using mushroom mycelium mats as biological filters. ...

Fungi Perfecti

His website, Fungi Perfecti (www.fungi.com) sells mushroom growing kits, spawn, cultures of gourmet and medicinal varieties (not Psilocybin mushrooms) and a complete range of cultivation tools.

The site also offers seminars on the "art and science of mushroom cultivation".

Books

• Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (2005, ISBN 1580085792)
• MycoMedicinals: An Informational Treatise on Mushrooms (1999, ISBN 0963797190)
• Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World (1996, ISBN 0898158397)
• Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms (1996, ISBN 1580081754)
• Mushroom Cultivator, The (1983, ISBN 0961079800)
• Psilocybe Mushrooms & Their Allies (1978, ISBN 0930180038)

Awards

• 1979, Black Belt, Taekwon Do
• 1994, Black Belt, Hwa Rang Do
• 1998, "Bioneers Award" from The Collective Heritage Institute
• 1999, "Founder of a New Northwest Award" from the Pacific Rim Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

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External links

• Fungi Perfecti, Stamets's company.
  • Stamets's Bio
• Radio interview with Stamets