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FUNGI FOR HEALTH

Bone broth, turmeric, ginger, citrus and homemade chicken soup are well-known immune-boosting foods, but some you may not have considered are medicinal mushrooms such as shiitake, maitake, lion’s mane, reishi and porcini.

In many ways, you could consider medicinal mushrooms to be the original superfood as they’ve been around for thousands of years to support health, immunity and wellbeing.

Many ancient cultures and traditions embraced mushrooms for their myriad benefits. The ancient Greeks called them the food of the gods, the Chinese believed they were the elixir of life and Japanese emperors used

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