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Can mushrooms be medicinal?

Mushroom-based products make up a sizable chunk of the $50 billion supplement market.

This profitable trade provides a powerful incentive for companies to test the credulity of their customers,

and sadly, unsupported assertions have come to define the medical mushroom business.

For example, companies that market herbal medicines exploit references to studies on mice

to promote their mushroom capsules for treating all kinds of ailments, but if you haven't

noticed, we're not mice.

I mean, it wouldn't be surprising if mushrooms have some potent properties. After all, fungi

or where we got a bunch of drugs, not the least of which penicillin, and also a

cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin, and the powerful immunosuppressant drug cyclosporin,

still don't think a little mushroom could have pharmacological effects. Don't forget,

they can produce some of our most

powerful poisons. Some kind of looked apart, like the toxic Carolina false morale, all toad

stooly and such, but others have more of an angelic look. Indeed, literally called the

destroying angel, that's its name, and as little as a teaspoon

can cause a painful, lingering death.

So anyway, we should have respect for the pharmacological potential of mushrooms.

But what can they do that's good for us?

Well, consuming Shataki mushrooms daily improves human immunity,

giving people just one or two dried Shataki mushrooms a day,

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