Lion’s mane is the shaggy white “monkey head” mushroom of Chinese and Japanese tradition, eaten as a delicacy and used for centuries to support the stomach and, more recently, memory and mood. Here’s what tradition says, what the early research shows, and who should be careful with it.
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