Functional funghi: can medicinal mushrooms really improve people’s health?

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Functional funghi: can medicinal mushrooms really improve people’s health?
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The boom in sales of mushroom products has led to many claims for their wellbeing and curative properties, but is there any scientific evidence to back them up?

eteran broadcaster Sheila Dillon, who was diagnosed with cancer of the bone marrow in 2011, shared some personal information while presenting a recent episode of. She began taking mushroom supplements after discovering that patients in Japan were given them to help deal with the effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and that there was, she told listeners, “a good deal of evidence” that they did.

Outside, builders are constructing a second growing room to enable the company to double its production. In the last year, sales totalled about £1.4m, according to Tom Baxter, who founded the business in 2019. He expects this to double over the next 12 months. The Bristol Fungarium expects sales of its products to double from last’s year’s total of £1.4m in the next 12 months.Baxter acknowledges that many of the claims made for medicinal mushrooms are based on extrapolating from cell cultures. He does, however, highlight two clinical trials of lion’s mane,, that found extracts of the mushroom improved cognitive test scores in older adults with mild cognitive impairment, and another that.

Chaga, which grows on birch trees and resembles burnt charcoal, prevents wrinkles, helps counter IBD and fights bacterial and viral infections, according to some of those that sell it., is reported to improve exercise performance, act as an antidepressant and boost female libido. In none of these cases however, are such claims

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