Mushrooms

Mushrooms and cancerMushrooms have become increasingly important as immune modulating agents and dietary supplements. In fact, over the last ten years there have been several thousand journal articles written about medicinal mushrooms and several hundred specifically about mushrooms and cancer. Now, an entire medical journal is dedicated to their study – the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms.

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Mushrooms and cancerIn their quest to find new ways to fight cancer, researchers are increasingly turning to nature. They’re discovering that many of the vegetables we regularly consume in our diet —notably mushrooms—are potent cancer killers. A new study in the journal Nutrition and Cancer finds that the white button mushroom is particularly effective against prostate cancer.

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