Researchers developed a therapeutic food that promotes beneficial gut microbes. Study: A human gut Faecalibacterium prausnitzii fatty acid amide hydrolase. Image Credit: Tatiana Shepeleva ...

Mushrooms or toadstools are the fruiting bodies of fungi. Fungi live below ground in the soil but every so often (usually in late summer and autumn) they throw up their fruiting bodies in order to ...

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Mushrooms are certainly included in this category. Chaga is not a mushroom as we would recognize it, but a white rot fungus that grows on trees rather than up from the soil. It’s found in North ...

The reishi mushroom, also known as Ganoderma lucidum, mannentake, and lingzhi, is a fungus found in hot and humid Asian countries. It has a tough texture and can be bitter. Reishi mushrooms can be ...