Lion's mane mushroom
Hericium erinaceus
In colon cells resistant to 5-fluorouracil, erinacine S raised programmed death from 7% to 59%.
What the evidence shows
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Loosened H. pylori's grip without killing, calmed inflammation and abolished its threefold rise in DNA damage.
In a randomized trial in mild cognitive impairment, cognition improved against placebo; further randomized trials tested cognition and mood in young adults, over one day and over 28 days.
Mouse models of accelerated aging, stroke and Parkinson's stand behind them, and nerve growth factor rose in the mouse hippocampus.
A shaggy white mushroom that grows on hardwood and has been eaten as food as readily as taken as medicine — one of the few in this roster you could put in a pan.
Yamabushitake, the monk's-beard mushroom, carries hericenones that raise brain growth factors, spur new neurons and rewiring, and shelter them from attrition.
Where it appears
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- ACB (Cell-Cycle Checkpoint Restraint)
- ALZ (Memory Preservation)
- Anti-Fatigue (Cellular Energy Endurance)
- Autonomous (Executive Command)
- Ecstatic (Nervous System Stand-Down)
- Helico (Gastric Colonization Defense)
- Nebula (Warrior Mode Rocket Fuel)
- Rewire (Total Brain Reset)
- Spaceborn (Medicinal Mushroom Masterpiece)
- Trinity (Mind Body Spirit Harmonizer)