Mushroom Wisdom Lion’s Mane

Lions Mane mushroom is a unique and beneficial medicinal mushroom with several well researched actions according to reviews on its biochemistry (1).

This includes the following actions: antibiotic, anticarcinogenic, antidiabetic, antifatigue, antihypertensive, antihyperlipodemic, antisenescence, cardioprotective, hepatoprotective, nephroprotective, and neuroprotective properties and improvement of anxiety, cognitive function, and depression. Anti-inflammatory, antioxidative, and immunostimulating properties seem to be responsible for the multiple health-promoting properties.

Specifically the Lions mane mushroom seems to improve cognitive function and help repair (2) as well as regenerate nerve damage in mouse models (4).

In vitro studies have found that the extract speeds neuronal myelin repair (3). Other studies have confirmed that Lions Mane has “capabilities of preventing the death of neurons and regenerating their axons in the experimental axonal injury mode...