Mean Shrooms

Mushrooms can be good, bad, or trippy. Listen this week as Helen focuses on their darker side to discuss the various ways mushrooms can be hazardous to your health and why its tricky to distinguish the good from the bad.   

Sources: 

1. Mushroom Poisoning by Robert Wennig, Prof. Dr., Florian Eyer, Prof. Dr. med., Andreas Schaper, Prof. Dr. med., Thomas Zilker, Prof. (em.) Dr. med., and Hilke Andresen-Streichert, PD Dr. rer. Nat.

2. Mushroom Toxicity by B Zane Horowitz, MD, & Robert G Hendrickson, MD

3. 2023 Leongatha mushroom poisoning

4. Deadly Mushrooms: The Most Famous Cases of Mushroom Poisoning