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Noticeable physical change could be 'earlier and stronger' sign of dementia, study finds
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/early-dementia-sign-voice-change-37755223
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Noticeable physical change could be 'earlier and stronger' sign of dementia, study finds
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/early-dementia-sign-voice-change-37755223
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DATE: October 9, 2026 at 03:07AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: Drug Target Could Block Brain Inflammation Linked to Alzheimer's
Source: Science Daily - Top Health
Blocking a receptor called P2X7 significantly reduced inflammation in human brain tissue, revealing a potential new treatment strategy for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The discovery, published in the journal Brain, could help researchers repurpose existing drugs to treat conditions that include traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression, and schizophrenia.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #BrainInflammation #P2X7 receptor #AlzheimersResearch #NeurologicalDisorders #BrainInflammationTreatment #RepurposedDrugs #TraumaticBrainInjury #ParkinsonsDisease #Schizophrenia #DepressionTreatment
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What went right this week: the good news that matters
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.positive.news/society/good-news-stories-from-week-41-of-2026/
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What went right this week: the good news that matters
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.positive.news/society/good-news-stories-from-week-41-of-2026/
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🇳🇴 På an igjen! Rom på støysiden denne gangen …
Menyen er justering av #DBS og medisiner som behandling for #parkinsonsSykdom og #dystoni nå som mikrolesesjonseffekten skal være over🤞
🇬🇧 Here we go again! Located on the noisy side this time around…
On the menu it's adjustments of #DBS and medications for treating #parkinsonsDisease and #dystonia now that the micro-lesion effect should have passed 🤞
#Rikshospitalet #parkinsons #aDBS #STN #deepbrainStimulation
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This #Pesticide May Be Too Dangerous to Use. #Farmers Say They Need It.
#California announced that it’s phasing out #paraquat, a pesticide widely used in the United States that is linked to #ParkinsonsDisease.
The action by the country’s largest agricultural state highlights the growing concerns over the chemical’s health effects, even as American farmers say it is an essential tool and continue to spray millions of pounds of it on crops each year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/science/paraquat-pesticide-parkinsons-california.html
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Revealed: the undisclosed safety data emerging as weedkiller maker faces Parkinson’s lawsuits in US
By Carey GillamSyngenta denies keeping relevant data from the EPA as paraquat stays in the US market despite global bans
#Pesticides #USnews #Environment #Business #Farming #Herbicides #USEnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Parkinsonsdisease #Chemicalindustry #Health #TheGuardian #CareyGillam
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Revealed: the undisclosed safety data emerging as weedkiller maker faces Parkinson’s lawsuits in US https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/sep/25/syngenta-paraquat-parkinsons-lawsuits-epa #Pesticides #UsNews #Environment #Business #Farming #Herbicides #UsEnvironmentalProtectionAgency #ParkinsonsDisease #ChemicalIndustry #Health
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DATE: September 23, 2026 at 11:58PM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY MIND-BRAIN FEEDTITLE: More REM sleep linked to lower risk of 83 diseases
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260923035930.htm
A large study tracking more than 95,000 people suggests that how you sleep may be linked to your risk of developing dozens of diseases. People who spent more time in REM sleep had lower risks of 83 conditions, including dementia, heart failure, and Parkinson’s disease, while more deep sleep was associated with lower risks of conditions such as type 2 diabetes and major depression.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260923035930.htm
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TIFF 2026 Review: Onwards and Sideways - "entertaining and avoids trivialization." Read it here https://bit.ly/4xwFXvU by Trevor Hogg
#OnwardsandSideways #film #RhysIfans #LauraLinney #ParkinsonsDisease #TIFF #TIFF2026 @TIFF_NET
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Perth artist paints Parkinson's as monster in solo exhibit
By Mietta AdamsAndrew Grero, 40, who was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease four years ago, aims to explain how it affects those living with it through his colourful artworks.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-18/andrew-grero-parkinsons-artist-perth/107160556
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Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’
By Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondentMen with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global analysis finds
#Medicalresearch #Health #Womenshealth #Menshealth #Heartdisease #Parkinsonsdisease #Science #Society #TheGuardian #AnnaBawdenHealth #socialaffairscorrespondent
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'Like Michael J Fox, I won't surrender to Parkinson's — and I've already defied the odds'
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/parkinsons-michael-j-fox-speech-37667055
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Michael J Fox has Emmys audience in tears with even Harrison Ford breaking down
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Michael J Fox has Emmys audience in tears with even Harrison Ford breaking down
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I just started playing arround with PyMol a bit. What you can see in these Images are screenshots of the Structure of Bromocriptine that is binding to the D2 Receptor. Understanding or even imagining the binding of molecules to Receptors is very difficutlt to implossible from looking at the two dimensional Lewis Structures. But when one can look at three dimensional models and move them arround a bit these bindings become fairly obvious.
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Onwards and Sideways review – Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney lift solid Parkinson’s drama
By Benjamin Lee in TorontoToronto film festival: Shakespeare in Love director John Madden’s feelgood – and bad – comedy-drama is powered by excellent performances and authenticity
#Torontofilmfestival2026 #Film #Torontofilmfestival #Culture #Festivals #RhysIfans #LauraLinney #Comedyfilms #Parkinsonsdisease #Dramafilms #Comedy #Romancefilms #RoryKinnear #TheGuardian #BenjaminLeeinToronto
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Martin Lewis tells pensioners 'claim non means tested' boost worth up to £5,959
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/martin-lewis-tells-pensioners-claim-37648964
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Senate inquiry will scrutinse APVMA decision to allow paraquat use
By Kallee Buchanan and Kate ForresterIndependent Senator David Pocock has used support from the Greens and the Coalition to launch an inquiry into the regulator's decision to allow the continued use of the controversial weedkiller.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2026-09-09/senate-to-scrutinise-apvma-paraquat-decision/107132358
#AgriculturalChemicals #ParkinsonsDisease #GrainGrowing #ChemicalControl #Health #KalleeBuchanan #KateForrester
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My dad’s determination to choose life despite his cruel illness has taught me gratitude | Nomi Kaltmann
By Nomi KaltmannWe can’t control what happens to us – only how we react to it. And when we help others we are reminded that we are more than our suffering
#Parkinsonsdisease #Judaism #Religion #Health #Health #Australianews #TheGuardian #NomiKaltmann
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My dad’s determination to choose life despite his cruel illness has taught me gratitude | Nomi Kaltmann https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/making-sense-dads-parkinsons-disease-taught-me-gratitude #ParkinsonsDisease #Judaism #Religion #Health #Health #AustraliaNews
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Key ingredient in Pumpkin Spice burns fat and cuts cholesterol
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Key ingredient in Pumpkin Spice burns fat and cuts cholesterol
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Watch Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney in the Onwards and Sideways trailer https://bit.ly/4gx8oVi
#OnwardsandSideways #film #RhysIfans #LauraLinney #ParkinsonsDisease
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So...Your Friend Has Parkinson's: The Michael J. Fox Foundation, with Harrison Ford
#HarrisonFord #StarWars #FanthaTracks #michaeljfox #parkinsonsdisease #harrisonford #shrinking
Watch Michael J. Fox and Harrison Ford discuss Parkinson's Disease.
Read the whole story at the below link:
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Farmer aims to be first to swim length of Darling River
By Wade StephensA Victorian farmer has made it his mission to become the first person to swim the 1,650 kilometres of Australia's second-longest river.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-03/victorian-farmer-swimming-darling-river-fundraiser/107076806
#ParkinsonsDisease #Charities #RecordsandAchievements #WadeStephens
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Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
By Pippa Neill Environment reporterStudy reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities
#Pesticides #Agriculture #Farming #Environment #Parkinsonsdisease #Poison #Health #Worldnews #Europe #Society #Science #Africa #India #SouthandcentralAsia #BurkinaFaso #TheGuardian #PippaNeillEnvironmentreporter
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Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/02/50-per-cent-world-farmers-poisoned-pesticides-every-year-experts #Pesticides #Agriculture #Farming #Environment #ParkinsonsDisease #Poison #Health #WorldNews #Europe #Society #Science #Africa #India #SouthAndCentralAsia #BurkinaFaso
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#ParkinsonsDisease #EnvironmentalToxins #BrainHealth #Neurology #Mitochondria #Trichloroethylene #EnvironmentalHealth #Podcast #Science #wellbeingwisdom #wellbeingworrior #wellnessjournal #wellbeingcoaching #wellnessguide #wellnessvibes #Research https://mastodon.social/@biohackingpathway/117172117914869954
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https://www.europesays.com/news/67344/ ESPN co-founder Bill Rasmussen dies at 93 from the effects of Parkinson’s disease #BillRasmussen #BobLey #ChrisBerman #Connecticut #CTStateWire #DonaldRasmussen #Entertainment #FLStateWire #Florida #GeorgeGrande #GeorgeWashington #GlennRasmussen #Headlines #ILStateWire #Illinois #JimmyPitaro #MikeSoltys #NewYorkCity #News #NotableDeaths #ParkinsonsDisease #ScottRasmussen #sports #TopStories
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https://www.europesays.com/es/718072/ Non-invasive focused ultrasound treatment stops Parkinson’s tremor #BrainHealth #ES #España #Health #HealthCareHealthyLiving #lifestyle #MedicalTech #NervousSystemHealth #ParkinsonsDisease #Salud #Spain
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Money, the mushroom fun-guy…
Fungi and human life: The molds, mushrooms, and medicines that fill our world by Nicholas Money, 2026. Princeton University Press.
We’ve had a flurry of popular science books about fungi in the last few years, e.g., Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake, Sandra Lawrence’s The Magic of Mushrooms, The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi by Keith Seifert, and Alison Pouliot’s duo of Funga obscura, and Mushroom day: A story of 24 hours and 24 fungal lives. However, few, I suggest, can have been more eagerly awaited than Nicholas Money’s Fungi and human life: The molds, mushrooms, and medicines that fill our world [which and whose book is here appraised].
Why should this particular tome be so keenly anticipated?
It’s written by Nicholas Money.
To expand upon that. By virtue of what I’ve read in his other books [see Haven’t we read it all before..?] – and according to his students – I know Money is definitely a fun guy. He has the enviable knack of unearthing and writing about the most interesting tit-bits of fungal ‘trivia’* [Ed. – many of which facts are not trivial at all!]. That sort of thing engages his readers; Money makes learning about fungi fun. Plus, his writing style is also full of flourish, wit and memorable phrasing**. [Ed. – and you will increase your knowledge of unusual words***] Money not only writes very well, he also tells a terrific tale. [Ed. – and we even get a song! Well, some lyrics at least on p. 111 (!!) Does that mean we can expect “Mycologia, the musical” sometime soon..?]
And Money’s tale in Fungi and human life is – simply put – the story of the intimate (very intimate in places…) interconnection between fungi and humankind. Or, in the author’s own words, “This is the story of people and fungi, the human-fungus symbiosis that spans the local to the global, revealing how our lives are influenced through rich relationships with these extraordinary microorganisms” (p. 19). In terms of ‘local’, the first of the book’s two parts – Inward – takes an in-depth look at the role played by fungi upon and within the human body. The ancient roots of which association are discussed by Money, as he reminds us that its renewal and reinforcement takes place with every human birth. From womb to tomb, “The entire human body is affected by fungi” (p. 5). Whilst we are probably more aware of the impact of bacteria and viruses on human health and lives, Money does his very best to emphasise the – and arguably more – important impact of fungi in the affairs of Mankind.
In terms of ‘global’, Money considers the complicated and often contradictory relationship between humanity and fungi in Part II Outward. There we have an examination of the fungi that have “been staples of the human diet for millennia” (think bread, cheese, and alcoholic beverages), the “controversial experimentation with magic mushrooms in the treatment of depression”, and a reminder of the essential role that fungi play in decomposition and the cycling of nutrients that make the world go around.
In other words, 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” (quoted from the publisher’s blurb here).
That the book is about fungi is a bonus. Despite the numerous fungi books written for the lay readership [see those several listed in this post’s first paragraph], there is still more to share about these intriguing organisms. And, in this particular tome Money keeps the focus firmly on the relationship between fungi and people. And his main mycological message is that fungi are much more intimately involved in the affairs of Mankind than we have given them credit for, and have so much untapped potential to improve the lot of Man. Accordingly, he goes into considerable detail about the medical side of mushrooms, yeasts, moulds and Mankind. In particular, I challenge you not to read Chapter 2 Touching without the urge to scratch an imagined itch on your skin(!). The insights I gained into the human biological side of the fungal-people relationship were most welcome and fascinating. Although I learnt more about faecal transplant than I probably wanted to know, I was intrigued to learn about new insights into an association of fungi with neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. I learned a lot about medical mycology reading this book, for which I am grateful to author Money.
Overview of book’s contents
The book’s 174 pages of main text are spread over 10 chapters (plus approx. 3 pages of an Appendix looking at the difficulty in identifying fungi from DNA fragments – quite a technical section that is appropriately placed after the book’s main message). Fungi and human life is illustrated, but only with black-and-white pictures at the start of each chapter (but whose identity isn’t revealed until pages 225/6…). Although the book is consequently primarily uninterrupted narrative, that’s not a problem with a Money monograph because of the quality of the written word. But, interesting sub-headings, e.g., “Fungi as one of the principal causes of asthma”; “All mushrooms are poisonish”; “Why mushrooms make psychedelics”; and “The necromycobiome”, help to break-up the text (and provide some indication of the text to come).
Plus, it’s not just dry facts, Fungi and human life is punctuated with stories about the people involved in the science, and Money is not averse to infusing the text with stories about his own interaction with fungi (e.g., his fungal spore-induced childhood asthma attack), and philosophical musings (e.g., when we are invited to picture one’s body as “I am a trinity, born from one cell, copied in trillions, and filled with other forms of life” (p. 6)). This is thus a very human book about a very human biological interaction [Ed. – and, in case you wanted a bit of reassurance that the subject matter of this book is relevant to the Plant Cuttings blog, we have this amazing quote: “We depend on botany, and plants depend on fungi” (p. 160)…]
The book is completed with a –surprisingly short considering the great range of topics that Money covers – Index. Its 2.33 two-columned pages go from ‘Allegro, John‘ (Raphael Tiffou, 2022; Geoffrey Smith, 2025) (who has interesting things to say about Christianity and fungi – and Money has interesting things to say about Allegro…..…) to ‘zoonoses’ (“A zoonosis is an infectious disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans and vice versa”).
This is a scicomm book
Fungi and human life is a factual book that deals with biological and medical topics which may be unfamiliar to readers. Money therefore has a duty both to try and explain those topics so that they can be understood by his audience, and to provide the necessary evidence to support those statements.
Whilst I have a reasonable appreciation of the book’s fungal biological material I have much less knowledge regarding human biology and psychology. No matter, Money’s easy-reading style meant that what I read was suitably well-explained that it was understandable. And there’s quite a lot to understand in the book. For instance there is a lot about the body’s immune system, and plenty about HIV-AIDS, COVID-19 and psilocybin’s therapeutic potential (the book is very up-to-date in respect of those last two topics). The communication side of the book is therefore addressed. What about the necessary evidence?
The biggest single part of the book is the approx. 45 pages of Notes. Arranged by chapter, the numbered items relate to the super-scripted numbers in-text and provide the sources for statements of fact made in text (and some other explanatory material where appropriate). Numerous scientific papers are cited – which are appropriate since there’s a lot of science in the book. Often – usually! – several sources ere cited in each note, including several publications from Money (which helps to underline his credentials for writing this book…). On the face of it, the stating of sources seems pretty thorough. However, some of the items within the Notes contain new information that is not sourced, e.g., Note 2 (p. 179) with its information about Candida yeasts; Note 4 (p. 183)’s estimates of numbers of bacterial and fungal cells in different parts of the body; and Note 20 (p. 199) regarding definition of terms.
So much for the Notes section, what about statements made in-text? Are they all backed-up by suitable Notes? Certainly, the majority appear to be, which is good to see. But, unfortunately, there are several instances where that is not the case. For example, the detailed account of the biology of white blood cells (3rd paragraph, p. 7); the statement that there are “Islamic prohibitions against keeping dogs in the home” (last sentence, p. 31); the use of griseofulvin to treat ringworm (2nd paragraph, p. 32); that Head & Shoulders is the “best-selling shampoo in the world” (1st paragraph, p. 34); a whole paragraph about aflatoxins (3rd paragraph, p. 139); the proportion of human’s calories that come from cereals (2nd paragraph, p. 162); and the estimates of fungal hyphal density in grassland (p. 171, 2nd paragraph). Whilst I fully expect that all such statements are accurate, it’s a shame that they indicate a lapse in – the otherwise pretty exemplary – provision of evidence for his readers.
[Ed. – Money bemoans – and quite rightly – the unsupported and unwarranted claims of purveyors of ‘mycological medicines’, which have hampered legitimate research into the true pharmaceutical value of fungal products. This is evident in his words, “There is an event horizon in mycological thinking that is crossed when enthusiasm and ego exceed experimental evidence” (p. 171), and “The study of medicinal mushrooms is lost in a madhouse of misrepresentation and pseudoscience that includes crackpot cures for terminal illnesses” (Note 27, p. 206). Recognising and applauding his need for evidence, I’m therefore a little surprised at his assertion that “The iceman’s … childhood would have been filled with stories about toadstools, and witches, and wood spirits” (p. 123). They may well have been, but Money provides no evidence to support this claim…]
Is it error-free?
Subject to suitable and satisfactory verification of the veracity of any unsourced statements of fact in the book, Fungi and human life appears to be largely error-free. Apart from what look like ‘typos’ – ‘sems’ (on p. 81, which should be ‘seems’?), and Oceana (on p. 132, which is probably meant to be Oceania?), the most serious ‘error’ relates to the chemical formula of ‘sugar’ as C6H12O2 (on p. 95) in “the most consequential chemical reaction in human history”. Presumably, that should be shown as C6H12O6? [Ed. – I know that here Money is providing a rather shorthand version of the conversion of sugar into alcohol, as “C6H12O2 >>> CH3CH2OH”. But, since that representation leaves questions about where the missing Cs, Hs, and Os from the sugar have gone since they don’t feature numerically in the ethyl alcohol formula (Jessica Clifton, 2025), it would be best to show sugar as C6H12O6 in the first place. Sometimes you can over-simplify things…]. But, all are items easily resolved in a revised edition.
Haven’t we read it all before..?
Whenever one comes across a book about fungi and people, there is always the nagging doubt that there’s only so much of that sort of information to go round, and one can’t help but wonder if you’ve read at least some if it before. I don’t know how much – if any – of the information shared by Money in Fungi and human life may already have been given an airing in any of his previous forays into fungal non-fiction (e.g., Triumph of the fungi, Mushrooms: A natural and cultural history, Fungi: A very short introduction, and/or The rise of yeast), but it’s so long ago that I read any of them that repetition (and any so-called ‘repetition’ we might rename ‘reinforcement’, an important teaching device…) wouldn’t be an issue for me: Money’s words and musings are always worth reading (and, probably, even rereading…). And, anyway, even if Money is ‘repeating’ himself here, its contents will still be new to those who are new to his work, and there is much for a new audience to enjoy. And enjoy it they will (or, should). [Ed. – I’m pretty sure that very little of what’s in Fungi and human life will be found in Money’s previous fungal books. Plus, much has happened in the world of fungi since those other books were written that there will be plenty of new material. After all, “The fast pace of discovery in medical mycology is really inspiring. … As this examination of the fungi has proceeded, the vision of the microbiome as a mostly bacterial territory has shifted to an appreciation of the diverse communities of fungi that fight and cooperate with bacteria through webs of chemical interactions to make a living on the body. Through these innovations we are beginning to fathom the extraordinary influence of the mycobiome on our health and well-being” (quoted from interview with Money on the Princeton University Press blog here)…]
Final words…
… I will leave to Money himself, “This is the story of the fungi near and far, which support the biosphere by forming mycorrhizas with plants, rotting the wastes of biology, enriching the soil, and purifying water. Life without fungi is impossible. There are as many of them living on the human body as there are stars in the Milky Way and, more importantly, they have a far greater influence on our lives than all but one of these galactic incinerators. They are everywhere and will outlive us by an eternity: in myco speramus” (p. 174)****.
Summary
Money has produced yet another great book about the fungal kingdom with Fungi and human life. This not only represents scicomm of a very high order, but is as informative and engaging as the author’s previous forays into fungal biology. It should be appreciated by students of fungi as much as by the non-specialist reader who wants to be better informed about the important part played by fungi in the affairs of mankind.
Fungi and human life is NOT a catalogue of ‘what have fungi ever done for us?’. Rather, it is a carefully crafted and considered recognition of the myriad roles fungi play in and upon the human body (principally from the perspective of health or wellbeing) and beyond that to the wider global ecosystem that humans are a part of (e.g., alcohol, psychedelics, religion, ecosystem services). Is it too early to be looking for Christmas presents?
* Fungi and human life is absolutely crammed full of facts. Some of the things you’ll learn include: sage advice on how to pronounce Latin names [although, Money assures us, “Latin names are kept to a bare minimum in this book” (p. 5)]; how much 40 billion fungal cells weigh; how much faeces the human body produces in a lifetime; discovering the identity of Money’s “hero”; finding out what is known as “champagne of the steppes” (p. 96); learning why – in Money’s opinion – fish are like mushrooms; being introduced to the value of ‘piratical metaphors’ for explaining biological facts; be disappointed that fungal spore-infused burial suits won’t work; and learning the identity of the person Money nominates for The Batshit Crazy Award in Mycology(!).
** Some of Money’s memorable phrasing include: “These tiny specks [microscopic fungal spores in the air] are destroyed after they stick to the mucus in our airways, but they carry irritating proteins called allergens that are as damaging to asthmatic lungs as birds sucked into jet engines” (p. 41); “Marmite … a fungal product that is formulated from yeast cells exhausted from the labor of crafting beer” (p. 102); “Together with maggots that writhe in the froth and beetles that nibble at sinews, the bacteria and fungi form the necrobiome that gathers at the postmortem banquet to dissolve the dead into the soil” (p. 164); and “Insouciant attitudes towards intestinal parasites are among the unearned privileges of today’s affluence… (p. 203, Note 3).
*** Fungi and human life will allow you to ‘increase your word power’ (readers of a certain age may recognise this phrase from leafing through copies of the Reader’s Digest (Reina Galhea, 2024; David Salariya, 2025) whilst waiting in dentist’s and doctor’s waiting rooms in days gone by…although, I suspect, few – if any – of these words will have featured in that venerable publication). Words in that category in Fungi and human life include: dysbiosis; synnecroses/synnecrosis; vomocytosis; mucormycosis; salmagundi; turophilia; sudoriferous; mephitic matter; formication; and henosis. [Ed. – I do want to be at the dinner party where you use any of those words in conversation!]
**** I had to Google this Latin phrase, and found that: “”In myco speramus” translates to “in fungus we trust,” a clever mycological spin on the traditional Latin motto “in Deo speramus” [in God we trust]. It celebrates the profound importance of fungi in supporting ecosystems, medicine, and the future of our planet. [1, 2, 3] This rallying cry has become a popular philosophy among biologists, ecologists, and mycology enthusiasts” (from the AI overview).
#AlzheimerS #asthma #botany #COVID19 #Fungi #FungiAndHumanLife #fungiAndHumankind #HIVAIDS #humanBiology #immuneSystem #inMycoSperamus #JohnAllegro #magicMushrooms #moulds #mushrooms #NicholasMoney #ParkinsonSDisease #plantsAndPeople #psilocybin #SciComm #scienceCommunication #yeasts -
Gulf War Veteran Parkinson’s Disease Lawsuits Investigated Over Pesticide Use During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm
Chlorpyrifos and Parkinson’s Disease In January, UCLA Health researchers reported that individuals with long-term residential exposure to chlorpyrifos…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #PersianGulf #Chlorpyrifos #gulfwar #OperationDesertShield #OperationDesertStorm #ParkinsonsDisease #Pesticide #PesticideExposure
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/247777/ Gulf War Veteran Parkinson’s Disease Lawsuits Investigated Over Pesticide Use During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm #Chlorpyrifos #GulfWar #OperationDesertShield #OperationDesertStorm #ParkinsonsDisease #PersianGulf #Pesticide #PesticideExposure
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Largest ever Parkinson’s study shows how symptoms differ between men and women
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Broadcasting veteran Charlie King retires after 32 years with the ABC
By Eleni RoussosAfter more than three decades with the ABC, sports commentator Charlie King is hanging up the headphones and heading into retirement.
#Sport #IndigenousAustralians #StolenGenerations #ParkinsonsDisease #Celebrities #Racism #OlympicGames #EleniRoussos
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Systems Neuroscience
Hackensack Meridian HealthSee the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/hackensack-meridian-health-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-systems-neuroscience/
#electrophysiology #optogenetics #parkinsonsdisease #photometry #respiratory #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/hackensack-meridian-health-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-systems-neuroscience/?fsp_sid=14007 -
The Guardian view on noise pollution: keep it down | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/28/the-guardian-view-on-noise-pollution-keep-it-down #Environment #Pollution #Health #ParkinsonsDisease #Denmark #Europe #UsNews #London #SadiqKhan #China #Animals #Society #Inequality #UkNews
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Carly Simon diagnosed with Parkinson's, new album out in August
Singer Carly Simon has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and is releasing a new album, Comes in Waves, in August.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/carly-simon-parkinsons-new-album/106964976
#Music #ParkinsonsDisease #DiseasesandDisorders #ArtsCultureandEntertainment
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Gunther von Hagens, creator of Body Worlds and plastination, dies aged 81 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/27/gunther-von-hagens-creator-of-body-worlds-and-plastination-dies-aged-81 #WorldNews #Culture #Science #AnatomyAndPhysiology #Exhibitions #Germany #DeathAndDying #Museums #ParkinsonsDisease
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Research Associate
University of British ColumbiaSee the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-british-columbia-27778-research-associate-3/
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Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise, Ushika Kidd reports. Find this article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #ParkinsonsDisease
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Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/23/road-traffic-noise-parkinsons-disease-study-health #ParkinsonsDisease #Society #Health #MentalHealth #Science #Research #MedicalResearch #Denmark