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🔎 RESEARCH SEEDS: Lion`s Mane 🔎
In this article, we discuss and summarise the aims, methods, results, discussion and conclusion of this study, whose aim was to assess its effect on 50-80 year old people diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment and see if lion’s mane improved the quality of their mind.
Our aim is to simplify herbal science and make it accessible to all.
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Sep 27
🍄 Lion`s Mane (Hericium erinaceus) has a beautifully nourishing and calming quality, benefiting the brain, nervous, digestive and cardiovascular systems and owing to its perceived neuroprotective, gut-protecting, immunomodulating, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-ageing, liver-protecting, anti-cancer, hypoglycaemic and hypolipidemic activities.
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Sep 26
🍄 Lion`s Mane (Hericium erinaceus) - this wonderfully characterful shaggy fungus with its delicate cascading white “teeth” has been consumed as a culinary and medicinal mushroom in the East for millennia and is now a major player on the functional food stage for its promising neuro-supportive qualities, amongst an array of other potential benefits.
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Sep 25
🌍 Inflammation: The global epidemic we should be worried about by Christine Herbert, herbalist
In her book Inflammation, Christine Herbert discusses the complex networks which create chronic inflammation and the use of herbs and natural healing to strengthen them.
Medicinal mushrooms are often used to treat inflammation and balance the immune system. This article shares herbal protocols for reducing inflammation.
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Sep 22
