Stalker was idly perusing the Saturday paper when mushrooms jumped out as the “rockstar” food stuff to help reverse ageing.
Dr Kara Fitzgerald, a researcher in nutritional biochemistry at the Washington Institute For Functional Medicine, was promoting the latest ways to improve your body’s biological age using the most recent research into diet and foodstuffs, and exercise.
On mushrooms the research was clear - Eat a variety of mushrooms. “Mushrooms of all varieties, including button, shiitake, cordyceps, porcini and oyster mushrooms, are what I call ‘rockstar methyl donors’, meaning they contain valuable nutrients when it comes to preventing biological ageing,” Fitzgerald says.” We absolutely love them for their nutrient density.”
Another study from Penn state University has shown that mushrooms contain unusually high amounts of two antioxidants - ergothioneine and glutathione - that could help fight the signs of ageing. Other advice on diet included eating leafy greens, plenty of eggs, tomatoes, berries and cruciferous veg, beetroot and lots of liver!
