This mushroom will kill you before you know what’s happening

Eating mushrooms is good, they offer us several necessary elements, but not the mushrooms are good. As a method of own protection they are toxic for many animals and they may be killing them if the animals are consuming too much mushrooms - too few animals to eat them is good for mushrooms. Watching the video, a lesson by Michael Beug and directed by Denys Spolitak, you can explore the toxicity of death cap mushrooms, and find out what makes this one species so dangerous to humans.

Humans have known about the toxicity of death cap mushrooms for millennia and we still continue to eat them (at least some of the mushrooms, the ones we grow and check when found in the forest). Mushrooms continue to pose a significant threat to unsuspecting foragers and mushroom hunters throughout the world - we haven't evolve fast enough to avoid that. Today, death caps are responsible for more than 90% of all mushroom related deaths, killing upwards of 100 people each year. So, what makes this one species of mushroom so dangerous? Michael Beug is investigating in the lesson and he is telling us interesting things.