Explosive New Research Lion’s Mane Mushrooms and Brain Renewal

Lion’s Mane Mushrooms

Anne Is Very Impressed with Lion’s Mane

Anne has been taking Lion’s Mane Mushrooms for the last 120 days with remarkable results. She recruited a close friend to also take her exact product to see if his results are similar to hers.

Mushrooms have been front and center in Anne’s brain for several years, after mycelium gained attention as an important new fabric on the sustainability crusade in fashion. The more one learns about all things mushrooms or fungi-related, the more mind-boggling the superfood life story becomes.

Doing more research, Anne found this article in Oprah Magazine: Suprising Ways Mushrooms Can Benefit Your Health and Wellness and it’s held us for several weeks now.

According to Tero Isokauppila, who has twice been named one of the world’s top 50 food activists by the Academy of Culinary Nutrition, we can target areas of our well-being, depending on the mushrooms we eat, drink, and absorb into our bodies.

Anne of Carversville is primarily a home for creatives, which is why Anne is taking Lion’s Mane — in addition to eating mushrooms regularly for decades.

“Lion’s Mane is a type of functional mushroom that specifically supports creativity, productivity, and focus,” says Isokauppila. “We like to call this mushroom your brain’s best friend.”

Anne can attest to the dramatic benefits of Lion’s Mane, as it affects her own cognition, focus and creativity. In her case, the Lion’s Mane has enhanced her ability to manage the constant flow of creative thoughts that interrupt her focus and better structure her time.

Memory Recall and Connecting Dots

Always an intense thinker, this increased focus has enhanced her ability to readily remember related articles on Anne of Carversville — perhaps 10 years old — or historical facts that take on increased relevancy in her always in overdrive, connecting the dots approach to thinking.

Anne has focused on mental wellness and positive mood quite intensely in recent years with significant improvements in wellbeing. The murder of George Floyd left her distraught for months. Anne has never taken an anti-depressant or any mood-improving pills; and she believes that the Lion’s Mane has played a significant role in even more positivity than she had achieved on her own without it.

AOC makes no claim as to how you might respond to the same Lion’s Mane formula she is taking. But the deeper she digs, the more astounding is the science. Here’s a sampler:

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In Lab Rats: Explosive Growth in Brain Cells, Growth Cones, Neuron Projections, Dendrites

February 10, 2023 University of Queensland

Researchers have discovered the active compound from an edible mushroom that boosts nerve growth and enhances memory.

Professor Frederic Meunier from the Queensland Brain Institute said researchers have confirmed that lion's mane mushrooms improve brain cell growth and memory and that the active compounds promote neuron projections by expanding and weaving a new web of interconnected hippocampal neurons.

Using super-resolution microscopy, the researchers found the mushroom extract and its active [lion’s mane mushroom] components largely increase the size of growth cones, which are critical for brain cells to sense their spacial environment in which to grow and seek out other neuron connections in the brain.

The extracts had a "clear neurotrophic effect," the researchers concluded, resulting in “doubly long axons – the threadlike links that conduct impulses away from a neuron – and more than triple the number of neurites, or small projections from a neuron that can grow into fully functional axons or dendrites.”

The study was published in the Journal of Neurochemistry.