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The Health Benefits of Mushrooms
Mushrooms are very good for you, but don't pick your own wild mushrooms, since that could be deadly.
Out of over a million types of fungi on earth, at least 270 are known to have healing properties. Besides tasting delicious, those benefits include being anti-inflammatories, antioxidants, having anti-cancer properties and being a great source of phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals.
Just by consuming 5 white button mushrooms a day, you can help fight tumor growth in breast cancer cells. At the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope in CA, they found that the mushrooms shut off the estrogen capabilities of the cells to bring them back to almost baseline.
Turkey tail mushrooms have been studied by mycologist, Paul Stamets. They even cured his mother of stage 4 breast cancer.
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It seems very strange that humans share at least 80% percent of our DNA with the mushroom kingdom.
Mushrooms are loaded with enzymes, selenium, copper, niacin, potassium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin D (if they are grown in the sun), and folate. They are definitely a superfood that can boost athletic performance and brain power.