Helping the Microbiome: Mushrooms and Mycelium
Few people know that we are more closely related to fungi and other microbiomes than to any other kingdom. 650 million years ago, we split from fungi. We evolved to encircle our nutrients within a cellular sack, a stomach, and digested nutrients within. Fungi evolved to externally digest nutrients and projected a fine filamentous, cobweb-like cellular network known as mycelium [...]