Fungi and Human Life: The Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines That Fill Our World

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Fungi and Human Life: The Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines That Fill Our World - Paperback

Fungi and Human Life: The Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines That Fill Our World - Paperback

by Nicholas P. Money
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The incredible, hidden role of fungi in our lives

From beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic molds that cause disease, we are constantly navigating a world filled with fungi. Fungi and Human Life explores the amazing ways fungi interact with our bodies, showing how our health and well-being depend on an immense ecosystem of yeasts and molds inside and all around us.

Nicholas Money takes readers on a guided tour of a marvelous unseen realm, describing how our immune systems are engaged in continuous conversation with the teeming mycobiome inside the body, and how we can fall prey to serious and even life-threatening infections when this peaceful coexistence is disturbed. He also sheds light on our complicated relationship with fungi outside the body, from wild mushrooms and cultivated molds that have been staples of the human diet for millennia to the controversial experimentation with magic mushrooms in the treatment of depression.

Drawing on the latest advances in mycology, Fungi and Human Life reveals what scientists are learning about the importance of fungi to our lives, from their vital role in supporting the ecosystems on which we depend to their emerging uses in lifesaving medicine.
ISBN9780691238722
Author Nicholas P. Money
PublisherPrinceton University Press
GenreHobbies & interests and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Fungi and Human Life: The Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines That Fill Our World - Paperback

By Nicholas P. Money

About Nicholas P. Money

Nicholas P. Money is professor of biology at Miami University in Ohio and the author of many books, including The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization, Mushrooms: A Natural and Cultural History, and Microbiology: A Very Short Introduction.

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