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12/20/2025

Gosh, do I love this mushroom.

It’s weird. It doesn’t look edible. And yet… I think I’m addicted.

This photo is from last year - I’m impatiently waiting for this year’s blocks to fruit 😅

It’s sweet, shroomy, and seriously meaty… but you have to cook it long enough. Give it at least 15 minutes or it will absolutely punish you with bitterness.

Guess the mushroom 👀🍄

12/20/2025

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12/15/2025

Wow Bee dna is fascinating! 🐝🧬

Bees hide a surprising secret.
When the hive loses its queen, who alone is able to give life to the colony and maintain order in a perfectly organized society, all seems lost. The life of the hive slows down. Without new eggs, the future is lost. In a few weeks, the colony may be doomed.
But the bees do not panic. Nor do they expect salvation from outside.
Demonstrating extraordinary collective intelligence and profound instincts, they trigger spectacular emergency procedures, almost unimaginable in a world dominated by insects.
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◆ The transformation begins with a simple but essential choice
The worker bees choose common larvae - those who would normally be mere workers. They are nothing special. They are not born different. But their fate changes completely.
They are chosen to receive a special food: royal jelly. A rare substance, produced by healthy bees, rich in proteins, vitamins and bioactive compounds. This is royal food in the purest sense of the word.

The larvae fed exclusively with this substance no longer follow the normal path. Within a few days, their bodies develop differently. The ovaries become active. The body grows larger, stronger. Life span multiplied by almost twenty.

She will not work. She will command. She will not follow a routine. She will give life.
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The queen is not chosen based on her genes. She is created.

What makes this process so fascinating is that worker bees and queens share the same genetic code. DNA does not determine destiny. It is nutrition. Attention. The decisions of the hive.

It is as if, in a humane society, you could take an ordinary child and, by giving them the necessary care, environment and support, make them an extraordinary leader. Without genetic intervention. Without fireworks. Just with support and vision.
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A leader is born out of a crisis
This metamorphosis does not just save the larvae. It saves the entire colony.

Once the new queen is ready, she takes over the hive, begins to lay eggs, restores ord

12/14/2025

Big mushrooms 🍄

12/13/2025

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Repost from Denise Rue, of New Jersey Psychedelic Therapy Association and soon to be Decriminalize Nature New Jersey team to pass policy on the local level. If you want to help reach out and we will connect you

The concepts in the graphic are taken from the papers below. Remember if state policy only involves synthetic psilocybin, not only are you missing out on watching these beautiful mushrooms grow and connecting deeply with nature, you are buying into a pharmaceutical system which inherently disconnects you from the spirt of the mushrooms themselves and the ability to grow - gather - gift on your own. Decriminalize Nature today!

Kryskow, P., Stamets, P., La Torre, J., Sattler, K., Tsang, V. W., & Williams, M. (2024). “The mushroom was more alive and vibrant”: Patient reports of synthetic versus organic forms of psilocybin. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 8(3), 303-312. 

Shahar, O., Botvinnik, A., Shwartz, A., Lerer, E., Golding, P., Buko, A., ... & Lifschytz, T. (2024). Effect of chemically synthesized psilocybin and psychedelic mushroom extract on molecular and metabolic profiles in mouse brain. Molecular Psychiatry, 29(7), 2059-2073.

12/11/2025

🍄 The Mystery of the "Little People" Mushroom!

Think you know everything about magic mushrooms? Think again. There's a fungal species causing perfectly formed, tiny people to march across the room, and scientists have no idea how it works.

The Mushroom: Lanmaoa asiatica
• Local Name: Jian shou qing (见手青)
• Location: Popular in Yunnan, China, and related species are found globally.
• The Trip: If undercooked, this edible mushroom causes a specific, bizarre hallucination known as Lilliputian Hallucinations.

🧍 Specificity That's TOO Specific
People who accidentally ingest this mushroom report seeing the exact same thing: hundreds of tiny (approx. 2cm tall) humans marching, often in uniform.
It's not just colors or swirls—it's a high-definition vision of miniature soldiers and crowds interacting with the real environment. The story of a man lifting his tablecloth to find their heads stuck to the cloth while their bodies kept marching? It's a documented anecdote.

🔬 The Scientific Enigma
This is the wildest part:
• No Known Compound: Scientists have tested Lanmaoa asiatica and found ZERO known psychoactive chemicals (no psilocybin, no muscimol, nothing).
• It's a Mystery: Whatever chemical makes you see little people is completely unknown to modern science. Researchers are currently feeding it to mice to try and isolate the elusive compound.

📜 A 1,700-Year-Old Trip
This isn't new! A 3rd-century CE Chinese text describes eating a mushroom raw to "see a little person," suggesting humans have been unintentionally tripping on this species for nearly two millennia.
The mushroom was sold in markets for decades before scientists even formally identified the species in 2015. We still don't know the mechanism in 2025.
The world is weirder than you think!

12/05/2025

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Three exciting longevity results came back from my first dose of mushrooms: >35% decrease in inflammation, a deeply relaxed state and neuroprotective effects.

Inflammation (hsCRP)
My systematic inflammation levels dropped from elite to undetectable. This decrease is significant, aligning with clinical reports of reduced inflammation markers (CRP, TNF-alpha, and IL6) seven days post high dose psilocybin.

+ pre-mushrooms: 0.23mg/dL
+ post-mushrooms: < detection limit 0.15mg/dL
+ >35% decrease

Deep low stress state (HPA Axis)
My cortisol and DHEA-S dropped by 42% and 45%, respectively, suggesting a profound inhibition of the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis, which corresponds with the "after-glow" effect.

+ DHEA-S: 287µg/dL to 157 µg/dL
+ morning cortisol: 10.3 µg/dL to 5.9 µg/dL

While cortisol spikes acutely during the trip, the post-session drop indicates a shift from sympathetic to parasympathetic dominance. This aligns with my sustained relaxed and joyful state.

Neuroprotection (Estradiol)
Estradiol increased 3x (11.3 to 36 pg/ml). This may be due to peripheral activation of 5HT2A receptors stimulating aromatase activity, the enzyme that converts testosterone to estradiol.

A study has shown 5HT2A stimulation in human placental cells can drive aromatase gene expression and activity. My testosterone levels remained unchanged, indicating my body compensated for the minor conversion to estradiol.

The increase is within the normal male range and is generally positive, as estradiol provides anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective and cardiovascular protective effects.

Conclusion
Taken together, these data suggest that a single high dose psilocybin experience can transiently push my biology into a low inflammation, low stress configuration that is theoretically favorable for longevity.

Measurement window: 4 days before vs. 5 days post-dose

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