Gypsy After Hours With Danielle Mercurio

After years of quietly loving mushrooms (yes, even the pizza kind), Danielle finally dedicates a full episode to the wild, wonderful, and deeply intelligent world of fungi, and what it actually looks like to work with them intentionally, ritually, and practically in your daily life. Danielle shares her full journey, from lion's mane at the LA farmers market to microdosing aligned with the spring equinox, and what she has noticed in her body, her mind, her creativity, and her capacity to move through life with more ease. In this episode: Functional mushrooms and why sourcing actually matters, the difference between lion's mane, cordyceps, and reishi and what each one is doing in your system, how mycelium functions as the original worldwide web and what that means when you ingest it, microdosing as a micro ritual, including how to set an intention, choose a protocol, and start gently, the stacking method and how to layer in other functional ingredients, using mushrooms for creativity, intimacy, social ease,