A new study led by Penn State College of Medicine researchers shows that consuming mushrooms may benefit a person's mental health. Analyzing data on diet and mental health from more than 24,000 U.S. adults collected between 2005 and 2016, they found that people who ate mushrooms had lower odds of having depression.
Why Mushrooms Increase Longevity
A recently published literature review found that eating 18 grams of any type of mushroom contributes to reducing your potential risk of cancer. Mushrooms aren’t plants or animals. They are umbrella-shaped fruiting bodies of a fungus that typically grows above ground.
Mushrooms produce millions of microscopic spores that are spread by animals or the wind. Once these have germinated in wood or soil, they send out a network of rooting threads called mycelium that can persist for many years. Mycelium digests the surrounding nutrients externally and then absorbs those nutrients.
Scientists don’t believe that all mushroom species have been identified. Neither do they agree on how many species there may be, with estimates ranging from a low of 45,000 cataloged species in 2015 to a high of 1.5 million to 5.1 million yet to be discovered and named. According to a paper in the American Society for Microbiology, in 2017, there were 120,000 identif
Many people, especially those following a vegan diet, usually consume edible mushrooms to fulfill their bodies' protein needs. However, a study from March 2021 found another benefit of [.]