Agreed got too love adaptogens, nice to see another shroomologist on here... Would you care to elaborate on how they are similar too our brains?
Haha....nice to meet a fellow Mycophile
Mycelium and the Human Brain have a strikingly similar structure in that our neoronal connections are like mycelia connections. Some species as you know have a huge impact on our neurotransmitters and some have said that for an organism comprised basically of mycelia,that they may have some type of intelligence....who knows?
Psilo and Serotonin are only 1 Oxygen atom in difference and the Amanita has an affinity for the muscarinic acteylcholine receptors and can be used as medicine if one knows what they are doing. Acetylcholine is crucial to our brains function.
I find them all fascinating in their life-cycle,their strategy for survival being nature's regenerative organisms that return dead wood to soil without any negative impact. Some if not all form symbiosis with the roots of living plants and trees.
Now I'm talking in Nature...a balanced Ecosystem and not Fungus inside someone's house or dirty old shoes LMAO
Lion's Mane in particular expresses NGF in Mammals,so new dendrite growth is possible just as mycelia can recover and regrow from being broken.
Nature is a wonderful thing and we are not separate from it,we are Nature too