Bees on the Joe Rogan Experience

“Now, the deformed wing virus is being vectored by the varroa mite. It came in 1984 and it injects viruses into bees and so it's like a dirty syringe and these …”

Stamets claims the varroa mite arrived in 1984 and vectors deformed wing virus into honeybee colonies like a dirty syringe.

“In Oklahoma, two years ago, 84% of the beehives died. Now think if you're a cattle rancher and you lost 84% of your cattle.”

Stamets claims that two years before this 2019 taping, 84% of beehives in Oklahoma died.

“Extracts of polypore mushroom mycelia reduce viruses in honeybees. And this mushroom, the amadou, reduces the deformed wing virus 800 times to one with one tre…”

Stamets claims his mushroom extract research found amadou fungus reduces deformed wing virus in honeybees 800-fold and reishi mycelium reduces Lake Sinai virus more than 45,000-fold with one treatment.

“We published in Nature. Only 7% of the articles submitted in nature get published in the nature publication ecosystem. To this day, our article is in the top 1…”

Stamets claims his bee-virus mushroom research was published in Nature, that only 7% of submissions to Nature are published, and that his article ranks in the top 1% of all articles ever published in the Nature ecosystem.