The Real Science behind the Benefits of Mushrooms
From scientists, not farmers.
9 min readNov 23, 2020
Mushrooms are hella trendy nowadays, but how do they even work? From powders in your coffee to vitamins with mushrooms added, the shroom-boom continues to mushroom — but as a skeptic of, well, everything, I needed to know how exactly these immune-boosting fungi work.
Thankfully, I’ve got a few friends in the pharmaceutical and molecular biology space that were willing to very patiently walk me through the science behind it all. In order for their patience and time to be…