Mushrooms....peaty?
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Mushrooms absorb heavy metals from the environment where they grow. If you collect your own in clean forests away from airports, I would say they are peaty, but regarding the canned ones, not so sure.
Interesting quotes by Dr. Peat:
“I’ve been experimenting with white button mushrooms (sautéed in butter and coconut oil) at bedtime, and they work almost like the antihistamines.”“Well cooked button mushrooms contain an effective amount of aromatase inhibitors, and can improve digestion, and are very nutritious, similar to meat.”
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@SelectiveBreeder Good info. Thank you.
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My protocol to minimize agaritine:
- Crush roughly with hands
- Boil for 1 hr in uncovered pot, dash of vinegar to lower pH (uncovered + lower pH will dramatically decrease agaritine)
- Salt, coconut oil (a lot), maybe more vinegar to taste
- Immersion blender until fine but still shows "pulp" or "mince" texture—when blended to "juice", I find the cognitive clearing effect is greatly reduced
- Put lid on, boil for extra 1-2 hrs
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@albion Ok cool. Probably do this in bulk quantities to use throughout the week. Thanks
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Does anybody know if Ray ever spoke about the hydrazine-derivative agaritine found in most cultivated mushrooms, or whether he had anything further to say about mushroom varieties?
Obviously he always advocated for well cooked mushrooms which does reduce the quantity present but as far as I can tell it's only up to a maximum of a 90% reduction, and I still have concerns about eating Agaricus bisporus if even after pressure cooking it would still retain 10% of it's original quantity of carcinogenic toxins.
I've seen that there supposedly are mushrooms without any agaritine content, but there are often confusion as to which they are and unless somebody has some further information on the safety of cultivated mushroom consumption I can probably forego the usefulness of the insoluble fibre and the tastiness of a sautéed mushroom.
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@Atlas He had a preference for Agaricus Bisporus, and was under the impression that the agaritine was mitigated by thorough cooking - enough so that he was comfortable with it anyway.
https://www.bioenergetic.life/clips/78123?t=3639&c=75 -
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I think that what @Hope_Pead is truly asking us is if Amanita muscaria is peaty; anyone?
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@Adonis Mithraic wisdom (which has many parallels to bioenergetic wisdom) would say yes.
She Peat on my noosphere till I generate energy.
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@CheesedToPeatYou Indeed, that would be my answer as well, but has any amongst us drank directly from the chalice?
