Flora Funga Podcast

In 2025, Flora Funga Podcast didn’t just grow—it spread: according to my Spotify for Podcasters + YouTube Studio stats, 26 people had Flora Funga as their #1 show, 310 had it in their Top 10, and 186 had it in their Top 5—plus 5% hit play within 24 hours and 25% of you binged 2+ episodes a day (mycelium behavior). The biggest Spotify breakout was Ep 179: “WTF is a Fungarium?! Tour w...

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199: Diet Soda’s Hidden Tradeoff? What a 1-Year Aspartame Study Found| Juicy News

January 7, 2026 • 16 mins

“Zero sugar” doesn’t always mean zero impact. 👀🥤
This week on Flora Funga, I break down a 1-year aspartame study in mice that found something wild: the mice got leaner (less body fat)… but researchers also saw signs of heart remodeling and changes in brain metabolism, with subtle differences on a memory/learning test (Barnes maze).

Full article found on florafungapodcast.com...

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198: Street Interview--What YOU Mean I'm not a REAL Mycologist!?

December 31, 2025 • 12 mins

Shout out to our friend Cyrus who created this art installation @fungi_lighting

All resources available on florafungapodcast.com/198

Zbiotics: "FLORA10"
Drink ZBiotics before drinking alcohol-Alcohol produces acetaldehyde, a byproduct that your next day

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197: 2025 Nominations-- VOTE NOW!

December 24, 2025 • 11 mins

Take a few minutes to fill out 2025 NOMINATIONS!

@the_flying_fungi

Also if you are interested in trying to Flora Funga Calm and Collected Extract..

Zbiotics: "FLORA10"
Drink ZBiotics before drinking alcohol-Alcohol produces acetaldehyde, a byproduct that your next day

Flora Funga: Calm & Collected Tincture — Flora Funga Podcast

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196: Fun Fungi Fact with Jasper Fungi Academy at TMF

December 18, 2025 • 8 mins

I interviewed Jasper from Fungi Academy at this years Telluride Mushroom Festival!

All resources are on florafungapodcast.com/196

Zbiotics: "FLORA10"
Drink ZBiotics before drinking alcohol-Alcohol produces acetaldehyde, a byproduct that your next day

Flora Funga: Calm & Collected Tincture — Flora Funga Podcast

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195: America's BIGGEST Fungi Magazine with Britt Bunyard

December 10, 2025 • 18 mins

We chat with Britt Bunyard the Co-director of Telluride Mushroom Festival, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Fungi Magazine. He has studied the interactions and co-evolution of higher fungi (primarily mushroom fungi) with insects (primarily true flies). A recent book I published "Lives of the Fungi"

We get some updates on what 2026 TMF consists of...

All resou...

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194: Why the Midwest is Superior with Melissa Ketelsen| Ohio Mushroom Festival

December 3, 2025 • 8 mins

We are at Ohio Mushroom Festival with @ChicoryChickadee we talk about the Midwest and some invasive species that need to be...

Zbiotics: "FLORA10"
Drink ZBiotics before drinking alcohol-Alcohol produces acetaldehyde, a byproduct that your next day

Flora Funga: Calm & Collected Tincture — Flora Funga Podcast

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193: The Mushroom Finds You: Ceremony, Healing, and Creative Power with Edward Crowe

November 26, 2025 • 36 mins

Edward Crowe joins KK to explore his deeply personal relationship with psychedelic mushrooms—spanning visionary experiences, ceremonial practices, and the role fungi play in his creative and healing journey. Edward shares vivid stories from his psychedelic visions, including cultural and ancestral imagery, and explains how these experiences have shaped his worldview.

He walks KK thro...

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192: MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE with Luna Stower

November 19, 2025 • 69 mins

Luna Stower is an award-winning educator, activist, and thought leader at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, and culture. With a Master’s in Teaching and over 15 years shaping the legal cannabis market, she is known for helping decriminalize entheogens in Oakland and for curating fungi and flora conversations at the Hyphae Psychedelic Conferences in both LA and Oakland.

A ma...

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191: New Fungus Lowers Inflammation AND Cancer Cells

November 12, 2025 • 8 mins

New research from Taiwan revealing a rare forest fungus with remarkable anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. Discovered growing on the endangered stout camphor tree, this cultivated mushroom produces a compound called N50 F2, a sulfated galacto-glucan that blocks inflammation signals and halts cancer cell proliferation—particularly in lung cancer—by triggering programmed ce...

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190: MEET THE PLUG: Nourish Cap

November 5, 2025 • 38 mins

Benjamin Ashpole is founder of NourishCap.com, the first marketing agency in the United States to focus exclusively on the unique needs of the mushroom sector. He also runs PromoterMotor, a marketing agency that has served the nonprofit sector for over a decade, and an accomplished computer scientist. Personally, Ben is a licensed mushroom forager and gourmet mushroom cultivator who...

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189: MEET THE PLUG-Shatter the Stigma 5k-Run

October 31, 2025 • 33 mins

Giovanni, founder of the Shatter Foundation and organizer of the Shatter the Stigma 5K, shared his mission to raise awareness and funds for psychedelic-assisted therapy for veterans and first responders. His foundation, nonprofit, partners with the Florida International University Society of Psychedelic Science (FIU SPS) and plans to expand to other universities. He emphasized respo...

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188: Inperson| How to Nurture a Scientist ft my Mom--Finn River Cidery

October 29, 2025 • 32 mins

Enjoy this Birthday In PERSON interview with my mom, Beth Moravek. Finally checking this interview off my list and Finn River Cidery is a MUST visit! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMAB!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN YALL! GET YO SPOOK ON

Zbiotics: "FLORA10"
Drink ZBiotics before drinking alcohol-Alcohol produces acetaldehyde, a byproduct that your next day

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187: New Anti-Cancer & Memory Boosting Boba Tea Fungus!

October 15, 2025 • 8 mins

Enjoy this science filled episode where we get down N nerdy

Tremella:
Cognition/memory clinical trials
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37836504/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29319408/

Skin barrier
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32531816/
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9284/10/3/82

Cancer
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31030755/
https://p...

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186: Does Tripping Slow Down Aging?

October 8, 2025 • 13 mins

New studies shows: Psilocybin delays aging, extends lifespan, new Emory study suggests.. In this episode I break down this juicy news.

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Zbiotics: "FLORA10"
Drink ZBiotics before drinking alcohol-Alcohol produces acetaldehyde, a byproduct that your next day

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185: Is the Hype Around Juice Cleanses REAL?

October 1, 2025 • 59 mins

MY YOUTUBE WAS BANNED--TRYING TO GET IT BACK...watch full episode on my Patreon...

Iosellev “Josie” Castaneda Morales, is a modern day Curandera. At an early age she was introduced to the practice of Curanderismo, as a way of life. Today, Josie serves her Miami Community as a Yerbera, one who works with herbs. She shares her knowledge with depth, joy, and clarity.

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184: MET THE PLUG: The Future is Fungitarian

September 24, 2025 • 16 mins

Fungitarian is a wellness movement and brand founded by Johnny James, built on his personal journey of healing through mushrooms after struggling with burnout and addiction. Their team of mycologists, scientists, and wellness advocates creates high-quality functional mushroom products—tinctures, gummies, and extracts—made from organic, U.S.-grown or wild-harvested fruiting bodies wi...

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183: Why Are we NOT Roasting Chestnuts Anymore?

September 17, 2025 • 53 mins

Elspeth dives into the surprisingly sexy world of nuts and trees, unpacking the botanical definition of nuts while highlighting the ecological power of oaks as keystone species. She gets detailed with acorns—flour, starch, oil, and even liqueur—exploring their culinary versatility and cultural history. The conversation branches out into the rise and fall of the American chestnut, hy...

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182: Interview with Paul Stamets | Telluride Mushroom Festival 2025

September 15, 2025 • 7 mins

Join me for an exclusive conversation with renowned mushroom expert Paul Stamets as he shares his insights and expertise on the fascinating world of fungi. With a career, spanning decades, Paul Stamets has become a leading voice in the field of mycology, and his work has inspired a new generation of mushroom enthusiasts and researchers. Paul Stamets discusses his upcoming plans for...

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181: New Study Shows that Shiitake Could Lower Risk of Cancer

September 10, 2025 • 14 mins