Shiitake mushrooms stop liver disease

Add some shiitake mushrooms to your daily diet—your liver will thank you.

Compounds in the mushrooms stop a process known as steatotic liver disease, which around one in three of us have and never know it, researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered.

The compounds, Lentinula edodes mycella, protect the liver and stop the disease from progressing.  The disease signals an abnormal accumulation of lipids or fats, and left unchecked, is the start of hepatitis and eventually fibrosis.  The end point could be liver cancer or cirrhosis, both of which can be fatal.

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