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"Habitat, like people, have immune system, which become weakened due to stress, disease, or exhaustion. Mycorestoration is the use of fungi to repair or restore the weakened immune systems of environments" (Stamets 2005:55) | "Habitat, like people, have immune system, which become weakened due to stress, disease, or exhaustion. Mycorestoration is the use of fungi to repair or restore the weakened immune systems of environments" (Stamets 2005:55) | ||
Fungus expert Paul Stamets called them "Earth's natural internet" in a 2008 TED talk. He first had the idea in the 1970s when he was studying fungi using an electron microscope. Stamets noticed similarities between mycelia and ARPANET, the US Department of Defense's early version of the internet. (video http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world) | |||
"Mushrooms produce strong antibiotics. ... We share in common the same pathogens. Fungi don't like to rot from bacteria, and so our best antibiotics come from fungi."(https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world/transcript?language=en) | "Mushrooms produce strong antibiotics. ... We share in common the same pathogens. Fungi don't like to rot from bacteria, and so our best antibiotics come from fungi."(https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world/transcript?language=en) | ||