The headline brought me in and incremented the publishers site visit metric. I scrolled through 95% of this hunting for the part about why the mushroom suit didn't work. I'm sure their visitor session duration metric was satisfied. I was not.
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> Right now, inside you, are the very organisms that will begin to break down your body after you breathe your last. Carbon dioxide accumulates in your body, creating an acidic environment and rupturing cell walls, which release an enzyme that then digests the cells. The first stage of decomposition is autolysis, literally self-digestion, with the intestines and pancreas being the strongest actors. You carry your death with you everywhere you go. This turned out to be too much for Infinity Mushrooms.
I assume that 'acidic environment' is unsuitable for mushrooms bred for fingernail clippings etc
Personally I was skimming so hard by that point that the single disconnected sentence that disclosed the buried lede was easy to overshoot.