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Researchers had 13 healthy adults take Hericium erinaceus powder every day for seven days. They tested blood with routine blood and serum chemistry tests and checked gut bacteria using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. After the week, the gut bacterial community showed higher within-sample diversity and higher levels of several bacteria…
This paper reviews early evidence that raising body temperature in a controlled way — called whole-body hyperthermia — may affect brain problems seen in diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and in some cases of Long COVID. Heating the body to fever-like levels can boost special protective proteins (heat shock proteins),…
