What’s up myco fam,

Welcome back to the Mycopreneur Newsletter. Today we’ve got a round up of mushroom news from around the world and an invitation to our weekly Mycopreneur Incubator.

By far the most interesting story in the world of mushrooms this week is a study published in the Frontiers In Neuroscience journal on May 27 that details an octogenarian Japanese-American woman with advanced Alzheimer’s disease who according to researchers regained her previously lost ability to communicate and redeveloped a sense of humor in addition to “restoration of urinary continence, improved mobility, enhanced emotional reciprocity, increased spontaneous communication, and improved contextual social interaction” after one 5 gram dose of Enigma mushrooms had been administered to her.

Here’s an overview of the response that was observed in the woman over the course of one week after taking the macrodose of psilocybin mushrooms:

Also from the study:

One month after the initial session, the patient remained continent and functionally improved compared with baseline. A second supervised psilocybin session using 3 g was subsequently performed and was associated with greater verbal expressivity, improved facial mimicry, spontaneous humor, emotionally valenced autobiographical imagery, and increased agility while walking.

The patient spontaneously stated: “It is pleasant to come here.”

This improvement in her condition comes after two interventions (5 gram dose of mushrooms, 3 gram dose of mushrooms) after 10 years of being afflicted with Alzheimer’s and 5 years of advanced atrophy as a result of the condition.

Interestingly, the only mainstream media outlets to cover this study in the United States was Fox News, which led off the story with a video of Trump signing the FDA fast-tracking review of psychedelics in the Oval Office recently.

If you’re embarking on a home research journey into the world of mycology, we recommend sourcing your supplies from Full Canopy Genetics

The Psychedelics Design Awards are an annual awards program created by Psychedelics Design to recognize creative work at the intersection of psychedelics, design, art, research, community building, and consciousness studies.

I’m very pleased to be returning as both the emcee of the forthcoming online conference and a judge in the Storytelling category.

Submissions for the awards are open now through July 1st — this is a superb way of plugging into the impressive global community of designers, artists, and community builders that orbit around the Psychedelics Design hub, so get your submissions in asap and use code MYCOPRENEUR26 for 30% off your application.

The World Mushroom Forum is taking shape in a big way since we announced it two weeks ago — we’ve announced the first wave of speakers and partners, with many more soon to be announced. I’ve been telling everyone to get submissions in through our portal so that everything is in one place rather than scattered across text threads, DM’s email, conversations, etc…100% of the applicants who submitted to the call to action within the first two weeks were selected for the program.

We've received dozens of applications by mushroom entrepreneurs, established brands, notable researchers, and advocates from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Australia, India, Kenya, South Africa, Argentina, etc.

We’ve also secured multiple sponsors as well as many more community and media partners which will be announced in the coming days / weeks. Don’t sleep on this one, if you want to be a part of it, please fill out the submission form linked above.

I mean…we’ve even got Seth Colchester from Mycogenius on the program, our Netherlands-based functional mushroom extract provider of choice in the EU. If you haven’t been following Seth’s work, this is your call to action (see below)

Who wants to come to Bragança, Portugal with me September 22-25? I’m a keynote speaker at this year’s International Medicinal Mushrooms Conference, which is the 13th edition of this multidisciplinary global gathering that brings together experts from “mycology, nutrition, immunology, microbiome research, biotechnology, agro-food systems, policy, and beyond – to share the latest findings, spark collaborations, and explore the full potential of mushrooms for health, sustainability, and innovation”

If you want to be in the room where globally impactful decisions are being made by high-level executives, researchers, and stakeholders in the mushroom space…this is the room you want to be in.

No agenda today, let’s build together

Today, June 11, 3 pm et U.S. / 12 pm pt
Every week on Thu, 98 occurrence(s)
Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.

Add the Mycopreneur Incubator to your calendar as a weekly event

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87575277676?pwd=w5k1GGlfZ22I3SOtolZbZokYnxpUi8.1

Meeting chat link
https://us06web.zoom.us/launch/jc/87575277676

Thanks for checking out the Mycopreneur Newsletter, and see you at the Incubator today

DW