Women's Fitness

THE MAGIC OF MUSHROOMS

‘Medicinal mushrooms lower cholesterol and protect the liver’

Much more than a tasty addition to your breakfast omelette, mushrooms pack a potent punch as a natural way to boost your health and wellbeing. Benefits include improving mood, gut health and immune support. Surprisingly, mushrooms aren’t plants but are actually fungi, a scientific classification which includes yeast and mould. There are more than 10,000 known types of mushrooms, with approximately 270 species flagged as potentially useful for health.

Nothing to do with psychoactive ‘magic mushrooms’, medicinal). Mycotherapy is the use of mushroom compounds for health.

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