News from white button mushrooms!

[Maxone73]

Do you remember the article I posted about the research on white button mushrooms slowing down PCa? (I must be careful because I keep writing white bottom!) .

Here are some more precise data about the quantity they used for their experiments:

They derived a single white button mushroom tablet from 6 g of fresh mushrooms. Patients in clinical trial consumed between 16 to 28 tables per day. “Imagine a basket from Costco (24 ounces),” Wang said. “Patient consumed one-quarter (6 ounces) or one-third (8 ounces) of a basket of those mushrooms each day.”

healio.com/news/hematology-...

[Cackalacky_cyclist]

color me confused; the explanation does not seem to coincide with the math. If one tablet is from 6g of mushrooms and each patient takes 16 to 28 tablets per day then that’s equivalent to 96g - 168g, or 4 to 7 Costco mushroom packets. Per day. Holy shitake Batman!

[Maxone73 in reply to Cackalacky_cyclist]

I think in grams, here where I live the common format for fresh white button mushrooms is 400-500 grams per pack, 1 tablet = 6 grams of mushrooms, so with one pack you do 2 to 4 days

[Cackalacky_cyclist in reply to Maxone73]

Ah, my dyslexia strikes again - I read "24g" instead of "24 ounces". So I have a little crow with my mushrooms, yum!

[petabyte in reply to Maxone73]

I wonder if they made the active ingredient more bioavailable with the processing. And if cooked would work (I guess not).

[Maxone73 in reply to petabyte]

They used boiling water to make the extract. If I remember in the original article I posted some time ago the procedure was explained

[petabyte in reply to Maxone73]

Then maybe cooking in butter might work 😉