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Originally Posted by Kitt
Mrs. D., Do you know anything about Lions Mane Supplement which is some kind of mushroom thing and for the brain? I'm just asking and not for me. Someone brought this up in another site. Thank you.
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I personally don't know...but I looked around for you:
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Phytother Res. 2008 Oct 10. [Epub ahead of print]Click here to read Links
Improving effects of the mushroom Yamabushitake (Hericium erinaceus) on mild cognitive impairment: a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial.
Mori K, Inatomi S, Ouchi K, Azumi Y, Tuchida T.
Mushroom Laboratory, Hokuto Corporation, 800-8, Shimokomazawa, Nagano, 381-0008, Japan.
A double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled trial was performed on 50- to 80-year-old Japanese men and women diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment in order to examine the efficacy of oral administration of Yamabushitake (Hericium erinaceus), an edible mushroom, for improving cognitive impairment, using a cognitive function scale based on the Revised Hasegawa Dementia Scale (HDS-R). After 2 weeks of preliminary examination, 30 subjects were randomized into two 15-person groups, one of which was given Yamabushitake and the other given a placebo. The subjects of the Yamabushitake group took four 250 mg tablets containing 96% of Yamabushitake dry powder three times a day for 16 weeks. After termination of the intake, the subjects were observed for the next 4 weeks. At weeks 8, 12 and 16 of the trial, the Yamabushitake group showed significantly increased scores on the cognitive function scale compared with the placebo group. The Yamabushitake group's scores increased with the duration of intake, but at week 4 after the termination of the 16 weeks intake, the scores decreased significantly. Laboratory tests showed no adverse effect of Yamabushitake. The results obtained in this study suggest that Yamabushitake is effective in improving mild cognitive impairment. Copyright (c) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PMID: 18844328 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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also this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...ubmed_RVDocSum
on cholesterol:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...ubmed_RVDocSum
I find this last one interesting.
I don't see any harm in trying it at this time.
It would depend on what was going on to need improvement.
Increasing cells(growth factor) is somewhat different than enabling specific functions.
There are many papers on PubMed using this keyword:
Hericium erinaceus
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