Call them magic mushrooms.
Older people who eat more than two portions of mushrooms a week could cut their odds of having mild cognitive impairment (MCI) by 50%, according to a recent six-year study of Chinese men and women over age 60 that was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Mild cognitive impairment can include “problems with memory, language, thinking and judgment that are greater than normal age-related changes,” the Mayo Clinic reveals. Having MCI can up your chances of later getting dementia caused by Alzheimer’s, the Mayo Clinic notes.
This mushroom discovery is “surprising and encouraging,” researcher Lei Feng, a professor in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the National University of Singapore, said in a statement. “It seems that a commonly available single ingredient could have a dramatic effect on cognitive decline.”
A portion of mushrooms was defined as roughly three-fourths of a cup of cooked mushrooms. After controlling for a variety of other factors, the researchers found that those who ate one or two portions of mushrooms slashed their risk by 43%, those who consumed even more than that by 52%.
The researchers studied six types of mushrooms including golden, oyster, shiitake and white button mushrooms, as well as dried and canned mushrooms, though they added it was likely that other types of mushrooms could have cognitive benefits too.
So what’s the magic ingredient that may be responsible for this effect? The researchers aren’t entirely sure but think it may be due, at least in part, to an amino acid called ergothioneine (ET) that may have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
Of course, this study does not prove cause and effect. But it does hint that this healthy food may help keep you sharp. And it’s not the only one that researchers think can help our brains.
Fish: Studies show that eating fish is correlated with more gray matter in the parts of the brain associated with memory and cognition.
Avocado: It may help improve memory and problem-solving in older people.
Coffee: Or really many foods and beverages with caffeine, a substance that’s been shown to improve memory.
Nuts: Or nearly any food with Vitamin E, which “due to its antioxidant properties” can help “prevent or delay cognitive decline” in older people, research shows.
Blueberries: This high-antioxidant fruit could improve memory and cognitive function.
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There ya go maggie. Eat more shrooms.
It works, but you have to eat 150 lbs a day, for six weeks.
This is all bullshit. There is not magic elixir. Long time ago it was vitamin E, then vitamin C, then vitamin D. Don’t for get anti-oxidants. All bullshit.
those vitamins are not bullshit lol.
BB gets it:
Big Injun Chief ,El Cajon , Tinker Bell and Yumbo in for the take down.
Meatballs , might want to stop while you’re still breathing.
Anyway , thanks for the laughs .
Just checking in . I’m in Joplin Missouri on lunch break. See you soon.
Jebus sweety your aren’t even very good at cut and paste. I am losing respect for your capabilities.
I am losing – Hollywood Rob
? Don’t quite get that one. Could you explain?
And, then…Queen Marthur arrives.
Shirley Godbunny did not die in vain.
Stop by and have a cup of Joe on your way to St.. Louis. I’ve got several cans of refries left to give you.
That’s a racist reference. You should be ashamed.
Hard to imagine that canned button mushrooms have the same benefits as organic, fresh shiitakes, oyster, maitaki, cordyceps, chaga, or many of the other traditional “medicinal” varieties.
But once again proving that nature heals, while pills continue to kill.
Yes Indeed. I do a mushroom spray every day for immune support. Have been sick only once in 3 years. It contains agarikon, reishi, chaga, birch polypone and turkey tail. (Host Defense Myco shield).
Lions Mane and Reishi are good for memory. You can go in the woods and find chaga growing on birch trees. Cut, dry and make it into a tea.
Will have to try this. My only caution is with chaga. Some people can be allergic to it … as in ME. When I tried it … I became sick as a dog. In fact, I didn’t sleep for two days. Consequently i started hallucinating …. aliens wanted me to build them a space ship in my storage room and they became upset because it was taking me too long. Idiots. As if my nickname is Tesla. Sure … it sounds funny now. But when they were bitching me out … it was another story.
Are you sure those were Chaga, and not Psilocybin (although I have never had hallucinations like that on psilocybin, nor have I ever heard of such a thing). That’s too bad. They are supposed to be a great mushroom to take (Chaga that is).
I didn’t know Chaga could be hallucinogenic. Hmmmmm, I’m thinking of an outdoor business venture right now. Damn.
-ILuvCO2
Anything toxic can make you hallucinate….bad fevers can cause hallucinations as can too much alcohol. As to mushrooms. the ones growing in cow patties can REALLY make you hallucinate, those grown for eating, not so much. Shittake are truly a health food.
chaga in cow patties it is!!
I believe she was referring to psilocybe cubensis, which love to grow in cow manure. Be sure to wipe them clean before ingesting. A find a nice safe place.
EC, thank you for inflating the comment count on this particular post, but you may have noticed that it isn’t mine. While I do support the post, and I do like mushrooms, and I do eat them regularly, I do not expect that they have any actual medical value. At least not the ones that you can buy at the grocery store. (Ask your mom where that is, you probably have never been in one.) The only mushrooms that have any medicinal value have been know to mankind throughout the ages. The magic ones.
And still, it is good to know that eating schrooms is good for you. I can only hope that maggie will start eating more schrooms to protect her from that hideous disease which haunts her family and that it proves to be successful.
This stupid BS article reminds me of how every 2 years or so your incompetent American’t “scientists” conclude that drinking wine is good for you, then it isn’t, then it is, then it isn’t ..ad nauseum.
Here’s my position on Americunt scientific “discoveries”: BULLSHIT!
Is that a reference to Thomas Dolby?
I didn’t know HR was a noob.
He never progressed, he’s been here a few years but the dementia is taking hold and he’s reverting to junior high.
I am not DB. That is just ECs trolling. He isn’t smart enough to write anything useful so he has to resort to meaningless slights. It is unfortunate for him as I really don’t mind being slighted. You see, every time he uses this particular tactic he simply reinforces my contention that he is trolling to disrupt the conversation. These posts were created specifically to set him off and show his tactics. It is working like a charm.
He’s gone Christopher Dorner on TBP, perhaps he was a sleeper cell all along.
Are you two still at it?? I thought by today the WWE/TBP throw down would have ended.
It has ended, Bea. Yobes finished him off yesterday. LLPOH and Stuck showed up to do a quality check on the kill and left. I’m just hanging around watching him fall apart and doing a running commentary but I’m not fighting with him anymore, he’s roadkill. It’s still fun to poke a turd with a stick so I’m doing that.
And yet you still read every comment I make and respond. I want to thank you for continuing to show everyone what a one trick pony you are and how you have nothing to add to the conversation. It really does make it all worth while for me.
Rob- You and EC have way too much free time. Stucky and I have had some fights but he never carries a grudge into the next day. Can’t you two get past this shit? BL
And I, like the Marthur I really am… have taken a sabbatical to paint a pile of rocks red, white and blue.
Only a few of them are going to Alaska.
I don’t know what happened here today except on the Alzheimer’s post. I composed an essay offline to mail to someone to mail to Stucky.
I hoped if I stayed away, the BIRD would just flutter away and play with itself elsewhere.
Please help me, Sir Knight! I’m a damsel in distress!
This is a cruel and evil BIRD.
Well damed sel you are most certainly not. Damned you might well be. The lies you promote are constant. Your evil is revealed for all to see.
I ate some mushrooms when I was younger.
Once, I was tripping on some and watched a Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd cartoon and nearly gave myself a hernia from laughing so hard.
I knew a guy who grew those things. He repeatedly offered them to me and I always said, “I ain’t eating some damn poisonous thing that grows in shit.”
I wish I could post or comment here without being trolled by this BIRD of the lowest form, but since I cannot, I will just scan pages and hopefully, someone can glean some information before the BIRD comes to do what BIRDS do.
Here’s my credentials…
I wish you would just give up and go away. I guess neither of us is going to get our wish.
Maggie is not going away and neither should she. And you are not going away and neither should you. I find Maggie’s down to earth country life charming as well as her myriad of life experiences she shares.
I applaud you for contributing here and find your defense of atheism somewhat amusing. So just fucking ignore each other already, will ya. Either that or get a room and have some literary make up sex. This is getting fucking old.
Maggie,
You do you. I’d bet all of us are too old to worry about shit like someone trolling.
I don’t care if anyone here likes anything anyone else thinks. Say what you mean and mean it. Tough shit if someone gets all weepy and soils themselves. Society of PC crap.
Lion’s mane mushrooms are supposed to be the magical stuff for your brain.
If hipster people start eating shit loads of mushrooms we will soon hear the inevitable- if you eat this you will be dead:
I keep meaning to buy mushrooms, but I keep forgetting.
Did they eat mushrooms?
Probably not, but knowing their proclivities, probably ate the pussy of any animal left unattended.
This book, by a very well-respected medical authority, is a purchase everyone on this blog should purchase to ensure you are prepared in the days and months ahead.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/The-Ultimate-Survival-Medicine-Guide-Emergency-Preparedness-for-ANY-Disaster/39964310
I’ve always been fascinated by mushrooms; they’re more like animals than plants. They take in oxygen for their digestion and metabolism and “exhale” carbon dioxide as a waste product, and some tribal cultures consider them meat.
Meat in the comments? Too many toadies on toadstools, blowing spoors at each other.
It might not even be the mushrooms themselves. If you eat mushrooms, chances are you are actually cooking decent meals with the mushrooms being mixed in with veggies. Who eats a cup of mushrooms by themselves?