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Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
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Re: Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
How to best ingest them? And at what dosage? TFA mentions something about "extract" but is light on further details.
I saw them in Whole Foods[1] this week, in their own store brand version. My friend who took it said it causes headaches in the beginning, but that either their tolerance picked up or it was just an initial effect of the supplement. The odd thing about a supplement which has studies coming out about them is that, if it really works in a drug specific way, then FDA will regulate it and remove it off the supplement she…
1/2 gram per pill? Seems rather small compared to eating, well, a few full sized mushrooms per day.
Re: Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
#33Noopept is cheaper
Re: Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
#34Lion’s Mane mushroom is a reasonably safe supplement if you want to experiment.
Be warned that it has a reputation for suppressing libido, reducing motivation, or inducing apathy in some people. Some people seem to like it, but it’s not really the miracle mushroom that all of the YouTube ads and podcasts are suggesting lately.
Re: Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
#35This is yet another tiny study paid for by the company selling the supplement. Medicalxpress.com? really guys?
It's astounding how much "research" is part of an ad campaign. Company and industry wants to sell you X and they fund studies to say X is good or competitor Y is bad. It's all marketing.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Survivor bias. I suspect there’s like a 100:1 ratio of dead laboratory mice to 200yr old mice.
I think 100:1 ratio for "long and happy life" among lab mice would be hilariously optimistic. Because of their speed of reproduction, their lack of reusability, and the fact that in order to cure diseases you first have to inflict them, lab mice are basically in a constant state of massacre. They're not even livestock. They're more on the tier of stationery.
I'll be patiently waiting for the vermintide - the day the rats fight back.
Re: Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
#37Lion’s Mane mushroom is a reasonably safe supplement if you want to experiment. Be warned that it has a reputation for suppressing libido, reducing motivation, or inducing apathy in some people. Some people seem to like it, but it’s not really the miracle mushroom that all of the YouTube ads and podcasts are suggesting lately.
It works pretty well. Been talking it for years and there seems to be a small noticeable boost.
2 things: 1) the effects are gone if you stop taking it 2) you're going to have some weird dreams if you take it in the evening (ie take it in the morning)
Apart from that, I have not noticed any libido, motivation or aphathy side effects but that's a data point of 1. YMMV
Re: Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
#38Noopept is cheaper
Lol. They're not the same thing. Noopept is a racetam which comes with its own pros and cons.
You could take/eat as much lion's mane as you want and you'd be fine. Now try a whole noopept bottle (srsly: Do not do this!)
Re: Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
#39I drink a coffee alternative that happens to have Lion's Mane in it. Can't really be objective on if it has really made a difference in my memory since that's not the reason I primarily bought it (it was to get off coffee which is negatively impacting me).
> Can't really be objective on if it has really made a difference in my memory since that's not the reason I primarily bought it
Wouldn't that actually be more objective since you'd be avoiding any kind of placebo effect as you weren't expecting any effects on memory?
Re: Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
#40I did some looking around. I have no familiarity with this mushroom nor its medicinal uses. Some thoughts:
This mushroom has like 77 known compounds and this study looked at two of them (together, not individually). Western medicine often seeks to isolate "active ingredients" in order to be able to create monetizable drug products.
This may not be such a hot idea. My recollection is that malaria is increasingly resistant to synthetic quinine derivatives but is not developing resistance to actual quinine, an extract from the bark of a tree.
It may be more powerful but overly simplified. It's also problematic to study both compounds together if there are no prior studies on each individually. How do you know which does what?