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I ate them with impunity for years until I overdid it, eating them in quantity for about four or five days running. I was violently nauseous for about three hours. I puked so hard I blew the little blood vessels on the surface of my eyeballs (petchia methinks, but spelling?). As a side note here, my wife got equally sick one time when I had a dryer full of them in the kitchen. She got sick from the fumes alone, just as sick as I got from eating them. She hadn't touched them in days. I escaped that time because I was working downstairs all day, whereas she was upstairs in the mushroom vapors.
As I said, dosage is everything. If you ever feel the tiniest hint of being off after eating them, stay away from them for a week, trust me. You will only receive the smallest of warnings before you get the whole experience the next time you eat them.
As far as I can determine, the deal with morels and a few related shrooms is that one of the chemicals in them can be processed in at least two different pathways. The normal one is a series of chemical steps in which none of the steps cause issues. However, that pathway has limited capacity, and it processes the stuff slowly enough that it takes a few days to clear your system after a meal. If you eat too many for pathway A, the stuff will be processed another way, and at one of the steps, the altered chemical is toxic.
As long as you stick to pathway A, you are good. But if you overdo it, you will regret it. Everyone's use of the pathways differs due to personal genetics, some people can't eat morels at all, some can eat them every day. Most of us are somewhere between - we have our limits, and the experience of exceeding them is not a lot of fun.
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