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Harnessing mushrooms for poultry nutrition: Boosting health, immunity, and productivity

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Mushrooms and mushroom stems are emerging as natural feed additives that can significantly improve poultry health, growth, and egg/meat quality while reducing the need for antibiotics. These fungi contain beneficial compounds that boost immune function, reduce harmful bacteria, and protect against cellular damage. By using mushroom byproducts that are typically discarded, farmers can create more sustainable and environmentally friendly poultry production systems while improving overall bird health and productivity.

PolDrugs 2025: results of the third edition of the nationwide study on psychoactive substance use in the context of psychiatry and harm reduction

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This Polish study surveyed nearly 2,500 recreational drug users about their substance use patterns and mental health. The survey found that marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug, but worryingly, most users don’t test what they’re taking or measure doses carefully. The study also revealed increasing use of mephedrone and other stimulants that are sending more people to hospitals, while interest in psychedelics is declining. Importantly, more people are now seeing psychiatrists and being honest about their drug use.

Nature’s Own Pharmacy: Mushroom-Based Chemical Scaffolds and Their Therapeutic Implications

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This comprehensive review explores how mushrooms can be used as natural medicines. Various mushroom species contain powerful compounds that can fight cancer, boost immunity, reduce inflammation, and treat infections. The paper details 15 important medicinal mushrooms and their therapeutic uses, showing that mushrooms are indeed a nature’s pharmacy with significant potential for treating many diseases.

Unveiling the Therapeutic Potentials of Mushroom Bioactive Compounds in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Mushrooms contain special compounds that may help protect the brain from Alzheimer’s disease. Research shows that eating mushrooms regularly could reduce the risk of memory problems and cognitive decline in older adults. These compounds work by reducing brain inflammation, protecting nerve cells, and helping the brain clear out harmful proteins. While these findings are promising, more human studies are needed to confirm how effective mushrooms are as an Alzheimer’s treatment.

Online Availability of Diamond Shruumz Before and After FDA Recall Initiation: Qualitative Assessment and Simulated Test Purchasing

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Diamond Shruumz mushroom-based edible products caused severe illnesses in consumers and were recalled by the FDA in June 2024. Researchers discovered that despite the recall, many online sellers continued to advertise and sell these products across social media and websites. The study found that even two weeks after the recall, about one-third of the websites still successfully completed product sales, showing how difficult it is for regulators to enforce recalls on the internet.

Toxicology and Analysis of Psychoactive Tryptamines

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Tryptamines are a growing class of psychoactive drugs that can cause hallucinations and other dramatic changes in perception. These substances, including compounds like DMT and psilocybin from magic mushrooms, work by affecting serotonin receptors in the brain. While some research explores their potential medical use for treating depression and anxiety, they also carry serious risks including dangerous changes in heart rate, body temperature, and mental state. Scientists have developed new laboratory methods to detect these drugs in blood and urine samples to help doctors diagnose and treat overdoses.

Neurotoxicity associated with the medicinal mushroom product-Diamond Shruumz: A case report

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A 17-year-old girl became severely ill after eating a chocolate bar containing a medicinal mushroom product that was contaminated with muscimol, a toxic compound from poisonous mushrooms. She experienced confusion, uncontrollable muscle jerks, dilated pupils, and excessive drooling, requiring hospitalization and temporary breathing assistance. Though her symptoms resolved within 8 hours and she recovered fully, this case highlights the serious danger of unregulated mushroom supplements that can be contaminated with deadly toxins.

Mushroom data creation, curation, and simulation to support classification tasks

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This study creates a new dataset of over 61,000 mushroom records from 173 species to help computers learn to identify whether mushrooms are safe to eat or poisonous. The researchers extracted mushroom information from an identification textbook and used computer programs to generate realistic hypothetical mushroom entries. They tested different AI methods and found that random forests (a type of machine learning algorithm) worked best, achieving perfect accuracy in identifying poisonous versus edible mushrooms.

Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities Alter in Process to Mycorrhizal Developments of a Mixotrophic Pyrola japonica

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This study explores how bacteria living around plant roots change as the plant develops its relationship with fungi. Researchers found that when fungi fully colonized plant roots in Pyrola japonica, the bacterial community became less diverse but more stable. Even after fungi died off, the bacterial community remained, suggesting these bacteria play an important long-term role in helping the plant obtain nutrients and resist diseases.

Silver Chloride Precipitation-limiting Factor for Accurate Silver Determination in Ag-accumulating Mushrooms After Nitric Acid Digestion

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This research addresses a critical problem in measuring silver content in certain mushrooms, particularly silver-accumulating Amanita species. Scientists discovered that standard laboratory digestion procedures using nitric acid can cause silver to precipitate as silver chloride, making it invisible to measurement instruments and leading to false low results. The study demonstrates that neutron activation analysis is more accurate for measuring silver in these mushrooms, or alternatively, specialized multi-step digestion procedures can dissolve the precipitated silver chloride to obtain accurate measurements.

Fungal Species: Amanita muscaria