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This study shows links between Long COVID’s neurological effects, including brain fog and cognitive decline, and brain blood vessel integrity, offering hope for new treatments and diagnostic methods.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01576-9 (open access)

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[–] BluesF 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You can just pick em yourself in the autumn

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or ask Uncle Ben for help, takes almost zero effort and you reap heaps.

[–] BluesF 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] BuryMyHorse 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mushroom spores sprayed in an Uncle Ben package.

Works for all kinds of fungi.

[–] BluesF 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ohhhh interesting. Will have to look into this...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yah! Basically you get spores, sanitize EVERYTHING SO HARD around you (including the spore syringes and bags and turning off the a/c). Inject the spores into the bag (standard unflavored brown rice) and use one-directional tape (sticks to things and will let air/gas out, but not in). Wait until they’re all super crunchy and stuck together. Massage to break apart.

Boil a big ol thing of dirt. Everything has to be very clean. Sterilize a plastic container (once the spores have taken hold and “infected” the rice, you don’t need to be anywhere near as careful with how clean everything is) and put the dirt into the plastic tub, planting the spore rice in the dirt. That dirt is soon to become a network of mycelium!

Then cover it with a lid. Wait a while, spritzing the dirt every day or two. Once one single lil guy comes up, flip the lid over to allow some ventilation. Spritz with water twice a day now. Soon you’ll have a fungus party!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There was a subreddit about uncleben brand rice, which is sold pre-cooked in pouches. The sub was not about eating the rice, but as a growth medium for various fungi. The rice is the perfect nutrient and moisture content, and it’s sterile. Mushroom spores are prone to contamination for a couple weeks while they get established, so it’s a fairly reliable way to get started, without owning a pressure cooker. Any pouch of shelf stable pre-cooked grain should be a suitable substrate for this type of mushroom, which in the wild actually grows on manure.

[–] Jayb151 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So genuine question... If I did this and checked the clear window of the bag, about how long would I have to wait to open the bag. Hypothetically if I shot some spores into a bag and don't notice anything after a few weeks... Would it be a loss?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Well I’ve never done it myself but white mycelium would form a kind of solid mass between all the rice grains. It might be hard to tell white on white. But it would feel solid, like requiring some effort to crumble. At warm temperatures (75-80F) I would imagine about 3-4 weeks would be sufficient. At cooler temperatures I don’t know. Usually you’d find out that you inoculated some kind of mold, but it is possible the spores didn’t make it in or they were unviable. But from mycelium, then there are a variety of techniques to get the mycelium to fruit, typically involving a new food source and a light source.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'm not good with mushrooms... I'm not a mycologist...