REALLY MEDICINAL

With all the talk of medicinal mushrooms and healthy fungi, sometimes one can be a bit dubious about the claims being made for the humble ‘shroom.

Interesting then to note that one of the most
widely hailed wonder drugs of the modern era was derived from fungal researches.

The drugs in question are statins. Stalker was intrigued to read that statins, a group of cholesterol-inhibiting drugs, are derived from fungi.

This may lend some more credence to the claims about other mushrooms being beneficial for human health. Then again, it may not.