623: The Amazing World of Fungi with Arturo Casadevall
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Fungi have played an important role both in culinary and medicinal traditions for 1000s of years, but these magical living organisms are often overlooked - both for good and bad - when it comes to the future of our health and planet. What if a new heat-loving fungus takes over? What if a fungus holds the key to an anti-cancer or vaccination? We’ll explore these questions and more on this week’s podcast.
Listen and learn:
- Microbial differences: bacteria, yeast, and fungi
- Risk of future fungal outbreaks
- Rewards of potential medicines and cures
- The known vs. unknown mystery of fungi
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Arturo Casadevall is a physician-scientist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
His research focuses on fungal and bacterial pathogenesis, antibody structure-function, and improving the scientific process. He’s written a number of books, the newest is, What if fungi Win?
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| 0:00.0 | fungi have played an important role both in culinary and medicinal traditions for |
| 0:07.0 | thousands of years but these magical organisms they're often overlooked |
| 0:10.6 | both the good and the bad when it comes to the future of human health and |
| 0:14.1 | also the health of our planet. What if for example heat-loving fungus takes over |
| 0:19.2 | the world? What if fungi hold the key to anti-cancer vaccinations. |
| 0:24.5 | All of these things are possible. |
| 0:26.0 | We'll explore these questions in more in this week's podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | If you're new here, welcome to Age Less Live More with Lucas Rockwood. I'm a |
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| 1:00.8 | dot com welcome everyone it's Lucas here. |
| 1:05.0 | Today's show is called The Amazing World of Fungi. |
| 1:07.0 | And I am joined here with Dr. Arturo Kossedevol. |
| 1:10.0 | Dr. Kossedevol is a physician scientist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at John Hopkins |
| 1:16.0 | Bloomberg School of Public Health and John Hopkins School of Medicine. |
| 1:20.2 | His research focuses on fungal and bacterial pathogenesis. |
| 1:24.3 | He's written a number of books. His newest book is called What If the Fungi Win? |
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