Eating mushrooms regularly leads to lower cognitive risk in new study

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This week’s highlights include a guide to storing your mushrooms and the “Mushroom Death Suit.”

Eating mushrooms regularly leads to lower cognitive risk in new study

The magic of medicinal mushrooms continues. The study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, collected and examined the data of over 600 Chinese seniors over 60 from the Singaporean Diet and Healthy Aging study. Researchers found that individuals who consumed mushrooms more often (at least two portions per week) had a lower risk of mild cognitive impairment compared to those who did not eat mushrooms as regularly. — Seraiah Alexander

Read more about the types of mushrooms in the study.

Storing your fresh, frozen, and dried mushrooms

Mushrooms doing the mushy mambo? Our guide to storing fresh, foraged, and dried mushrooms spills the spores on keeping your fresh caps crisp. Whether you forage or buy your shrooms, these tips will help sidestep ruinous soggy moments.

Read more about storing mushrooms.

Around the web

• Health officials in Ohio are warning residents to be careful what they eat after the state saw an influx of mushroom poisonings in the northeastern part of the state. Coincidentally, the Health Security Agency in France is also recommending vigilance in foraging after mushroom cases of mushroom poisonings doubled in August.

• Samantha Cole covered the rise of AI-generated foraging books on Amazon, identifying three suspicious potential examples. Earlier in the month, the New York Mycological Society warned on Twitter these AI-generated foraging books could “mean life or death.” This Reddit thread, identifying a similar Twitter warning, is full of similar examples of the money-making scam.

• Burning Man comes to a close on Monday, but not after climate, anti-capitalist activists blocked traffic on opening day. According to a statement from the organizing coalition Seven Circles, the blockade wanted to spotlight “capitalism’s inability to address climate and ecological breakdown.”

Featured artist: Jae Rhim Lee

Jae Rhim Lee is an artist working at the intersection of the mind, body, and self, and the built and natural environments. She invented the Infinity Burial Suit, nicknamed the “Mushroom Death Suit” as an artistic exploration of blending the body with the earth. The fabric holds mushroom spores that feed off the toxins in the body after death, decomposing the body for the soil.

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