Paul Stamets
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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 psychoactive mushrooms, and has produced the book, 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.
Stamets is an advocate of the permaculture system of growing, and considers fungiculture a valuable but underutilised aspect of permaculture. He is also a leading researcher into the use of mushrooms in bioremediation, processes he terms mycoremediation and mycofiltration.
He has two children, Azureus and LaDena Stamets, and is currently married to Dusty Yao.
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[edit] 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". These seminars are often held near Port Townsend, WA.
[edit] Books
- Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (2005, ISBN 1-58008-579-2)
- MycoMedicinals: An Informational Treatise on Mushrooms (1999, ISBN 0-9637971-9-0)
- Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World (1996, ISBN 0-89815-839-7)
- Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms (1996, ISBN 1-58008-175-4)
- Mushroom Cultivator, The (1983, ISBN 0-9610798-0-0)
- Psilocybe Mushrooms & Their Allies (1978, ISBN 0-930180-03-8)
[edit] Awards
- 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
[edit] External links
- Fungi Perfecti, Stamets's company.
- Radio interview with Stamets
