{"id":244746,"date":"2026-10-01T05:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/could-mushrooms-save-the-world"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:45:32","slug":"could-mushrooms-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/could-mushrooms-save-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Could mushrooms save the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-mushrooms-save-the-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mycologist Paul Stamets explains what fungi do for the planet and how they could be used to correct many of the problems that ail us.<\/p>\n<p>Mycologist Paul Stamets wears a cool Indiana Jones-like hat, fitting for a researcher who is adored like a rock star by fans of his work. The hat is made from a mushroom \u2013 birch polypore \u2013 but it\u2019s not the only mushroom Stamets has brought to the studio with him. Tucked into his backpack is a huge, 40-pound mushroom called Agarikon, which looks a bit like a beehive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really hard. It sounds like wood; it feels like wood; it\u2019s the longest living mushroom in the world,\u201d Stamets explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mycologist Paul Stamets explains what fungi do for the planet and how they could be used to correct many of the problems that ail us. Mycologist Paul Stamets wears a cool Indiana Jones-like hat, fitting for a researcher who is adored like a rock star by fans of his work. The hat is made from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}