Former Arizona State quarterback Jake Plummer returned to campus recently, just two days before his Sun Devils took on Deion Sanders and Colorado, but he was not in town to see the game.
Instead, Plummer was back in Tempe on invitation from the ASU Shroom Society, a student group that works to encourage knowledge and understanding of fungi and mushrooms, presenting at the group’s first “shroom symposium.”
Plummer, who was named a 2023 Fiesta Bowl Grand Marshal Wednesday, has been among the nation’s most high-profile advocates of medicinal and functional mushrooms since co-founding Umbo, a mushroom supplement company based in Colorado. Umbo sells capsules, tinctures and nutrition bars packed with legal, naturally occurring and non-psychoactive mushroom varieties like Reishi and Lion’s Mane which, according to the company’s website, “fuel focus, endurance, and sleep.
Not long after his induction into the Sun Devil Football Ring of Honor in 2019, Plummer was introduced through a friend to the world of medicinal and functional mushrooms, which he describes as the earth’s “queendom.” Although Umbo’s work is limited to legal, non-psychoactive functional mushrooms, Plummer’s healing journey is not. Psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in psychedelic “magic” mushrooms, has also played a role.
The past decade has seen a renaissance of research into the possible therapeutic benefits of psychedelic compounds such as psilocybin in addressing mental health issues like PTSD, depression and addiction. Conclusive science is still limited due to the illicit status of psychoactive drugs, but early returns have yielded promising results, even indicating the possibility they could be more effective than many drugs commonly used to address mental health issues today.
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