Lion's Mane Mushrooms Actually DO SOMETHING! 

Mario made it clear that shrooms can level you up.

Mushrooms did wonders in my life. I was diagnosed with cptsd since my teenage, spent my whole life fighting cptsd. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with similar health challenges.

My wife has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME. I got her started on lions mane mushroom supplements, and it has made a significant difference in... Everything. She's really started to come back to herself, including creative activities.

I suffered the borderline disorder for over 23 years, with so much anxiety not until I came across psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment actually saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms

They’ve also done studies with Lions Mane Mushrooms and Multiple Sclerosis. It’s really exciting for those of us with MS.

I will also add that lions mane mushrooms are absolutely delicious and super easy to cultivate even if you’ve never grown mushrooms before. I’ve been growing them in my basement with great success.

Mushrooms actually did wonders in my life. I was diagnosed with ADHD since my teenage. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with related health challenges.

Its not only brain-healing. My friend was able to heal a nerve pain in her arm with a few weeks of Lions Mane supplementation

So glad that shrooms are finally getting the medical recognition they deserve.

Sounds exactly like what mind control fungi would make you say!

I suffer from severe TBI. I started taking lionsmane mushroom extract about 4 years ago and my life has changed incredibly!!!! I felt like was living with a fog over my brain and one day ot was gone!!! I started going to college, currently working on my Bachelors. Even before my TBI I never though college was a possibility, but the mushrooms literally helped my brain rewire the synopsis that were broken. Mushrooms are magical!!!!!

I can verify Lion's mane did in fact help me. I was having a lot of trouble remembering things and this isn’t a problem I’ve always had. I noticed getting more sleep and trying to mitigate stress didn’t help. I read about Lion's mane and tried it. It didn’t take long, I started noticing a difference. Much less brain fog and much easier to remember things. My family noticed and said I stopped repeating myself; so I know it isn’t just wishful thinking on my part. I wouldn’t call this the limitless pill or anything like that, more like restoring the baseline you had already but lost.

Man I love this channel. The host’s excitement and enthusiasm is infectious. I’ve just started a degree in Forensic Science so I’m now binging on SciShow & Crash Course. I love learning new things. And this video is extremely informative and Hank’s enthusiasm and obvious loving what he does makes ME excited.

I have been getting into mycology recently so this video is perfect. Lion's mane is common in california and hard to mistake with poisonous species.

They taste incredible. I used to work at a high end grocery store, and it was my job to market new foods. We had some of these come in, and I sliced them and fried them in olive oil with some salt. I took them around for people to try, and people could not believe it wasn't meat. They literally taste like pork tenderloin. They even have striations that look like muscle fiber. I'd love to see these become a mainstream market mushroom. They're very easy to cultivate.

While there have been some studies exploring the potential benefits of certain compounds found in mushrooms for cancer treatment, it's important to note that these studies are still in the early stages and more research is needed.

I should add that the Lion's mane mushrooms are very yummy too! In the Chinese vegetarian diet, we use this mushroom to replace meat because it tastes so meaty! I recommend everyone to give it a try ☺️

First found out about lions mane mushrooms when I got into growing my own mushrooms at home. Ever since I've wanted to grow my own lion's mane for the memory benefits. I also just really enjoy the entire process of mushroom cultivation. Something about a single batch of grain spawn coming from a few spores, being able to birth that into literally hundreds of other jars, it's just magical. So different from cultivating plants because fungus will just consume and fill whatever food you give it. It always feels like I'm watching a hivemind at work. That only further adds to the wonder when they drop their spores. Because each and every one of those individual spores could birth another colony of the same size. Really makes you understand how unflinchingly efficient they are.

World renowned mycologist Paul Stamets has been harping on this for well over a decade. I've even had a literal neurologist look at me like I was crazy when I mentioned hericenones and erinacines for nerve health. It's refreshing to see scientists in the west are finally taking their effects seriously.

This video made me happy, thank you for doing all that you do. Particularly for providing sources! I like reading deeper into the subject you cover.

I started taking Lion's Mane a few months ago, and this has definitely been my experience. I started taking a low dose and already noticed a small difference in my general cognitive function (focus and memory specifically, but an improvement overall), so after the first month I added pure Lion's Mane, and am taking it for a minimum of 3 months to give it a chance to really start to do its thing. I'm happy to say that I've seen continued improvements since then.

This is the kind of stuff I want to see. Thanks SciShow!

LOVE YOUR WORK HANK!!!

Thank you for your latest episode and I hope you know how much I appreciate your channel and your positive energy. Bless you and have a great week ahead 🙏🌎

I have a TBI that really messes up my sleep cycle and mood. I started taking lions mane capsules and it helps correct my sleep, clear my thinking, and correct my mood. It wasn’t a “fix”, but it helped a lot.

This is fantastic. So glad I watched it.

Thank you for this information as a senior I'm really grateful ☯️🙏

It's amazing what the power of the shroom is. Being used as a ingredient, as food, as a hallucinate, and as a potential way to alter the Aging process. It's crazy how the mushroom isn't exactly a plant or an animal, yet, it has so many benefits, probably more in the future will be discovered.

Thanks for actually reporting what organism research is done in! I just went on a rant about how easy it is to say "in mice" if you're reporting results from mice- and then you guys show how it's done, obviously! Keep up the good work

Love It !! Thank you !!

Wonderful video, thank you.

Paul Stamets (yes the guy who inspired the mycologist character in Star Trek Discovery) first introduced me to mushrooms decades ago. The movie, "The Fantastic Fungi" is worth a watch. Important subject. Thanks SciShow!

As someone with brain damage that primarily effects my short term memory, I thank you for the information. And now I'm off to get some lion's mane mushroom tea/supplements/or something.

Lions mane really helped me out of a terrible depression. I take them all the time now, with a break of 2 days every so often as recommended...they uplift your mood so much ❤

I've been watching Sci show for yeeears and I just absolutely love this channel! One of my favorite channels to learn from

So I have brain damage from my immune system and struggle with adhd like symptoms and terrible memory loss. It’s difficult to function, but when I take lions mane with other mushrooms (cordyceps and quite a few others), I feel SO MUCH BETTER! I can remember things and function pretty well when I’m consistent. It’s been insane

I had brain inflammation from May last year and I was getting worse and in June this year I started taking lions mane and I felt better. But I had done so many other treatments to help my brain inflammation, I was planning to discontinue the mushrooms but I dreamt of goats feeding on them on the side of a hill and I decided it was the mushrooms that actually helped and I will continue to order them. Thank you for this video.

Excellent information !

Thank you for the video

So glad to see this video. I’ve been taking lions mane (and other medicinal fungal supplements) for two years, I would love to see more people utilizing this incredible resource!

This is very interesting because fungi also carry information in the Earth among plants. I recently found a recommendation by a neurologist for older people to eat Lion's Mane mushrooms.

Great channel Thanks

Great stuff! Lions manes are some of the coolest looking mushrooms. The number of disparate compounds found in fungus make them absolutely fascinating to me. Not to mention the unique stages of growth and development. It would not surprise me if we one day discover that fungi were responsible for all complex life on Earth.

I’ve been seeing “gurus” everywhere pushing this. Thank you for providing the facts, now I can buy with confidence lol.

You rock. Thank you for making the world a better and more well informed place!

Awesome, thanks!

Psilocybin containing mushroom saved my life. The drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had became medically dangerous to quit. it has also helped me to survive depression

Psilocybin containing mushrooms saved my life. The drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had became medically dangerous to quit. It has also helped me survive depression.

Brings a whole new meaning to the expression "Food for thought!"

Thanks for the video! Definitely really awesome mushrooms! :D

You've been in my heart and in my meditation I hope you beat that cancer you've been good for my brain and my sense of humor keep on keeping on thank you for these videos

Psychedelic’s definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again but it’s just so hard to source here

glad to see this is catching on! not only is lion's mane delicious, but you can actually feel it and it does really make you feel younger and sharper mentally. extreme clarity. strangely enough colours seem more vivid too.

This video is incredible. Thank you so much for being alive, being yourself, and having the energy to make these videos for us. You’re a hero. I love you. Have a phenomenal day🙏

Would love to see videos like this for cordyceps, reishi and chaga too!(:

Amazing, I was referred to this to help with migraines and it's amazing to see how it actually has science to back it up! Righteous

This is neat stuff to learn about!

I've been taking half a teaspoon of powdered lions mane mushroom in my tea and coffee in the mornings. i have psychosis and the side effects of the medication(not the mushroom) resulted in me having mild narcolepsy, i would sleep 14 hours a day. now i sleep 11hours and dont feel tired during the day, it has also help with the number and strength of the psychotic episodes (psychosis and narcolepsy possibly linked as i have a paneel cyst). i have tried nearly every common and some not uncommon supplement and neutropic and this by far is the best. Another one to look out for is the golden root also called rhodiola rosea but i found it to be a bit of a caffine high and it wears off after a few weeks.

Found this mushroom in the wild once in Wisconsin. It tasted like butter and garlic. Just like the other 12 I cooked from that day's foraging.

The first two to three weeks I didn’t notice much until I started my new job which is in an office with computers doing tech support. The last similar job I lost it due to my ADD. Regardless of my medications, I still encountered the usual symptoms of confusion and disorientation. I’ve been taking two medications, the second one I had just started (after job loss ) and maybe a week later is when I started taking the lions mane. When I started the new job I was just more than halfway finished with the capsules so let’s analyze this: Previous job- Because of my symptoms I had a hard time learning the new program. Despite reading the procedures every day that I was there, I felt lost often as well as drowsy. Current job- This one also has the same system as the previous one so I dreaded and feared having to go through the same thing again. But something weird happened. While I started training I recognized almost everything that I had seen from the previous job, including the program, what each process does and other aspects. I’ve NEVER experienced anything like this in my life . The first two weeks in the new job I felt very competent, something I rarely feel. I kept thinking that it was just the two meds kicking in but unfortunately, as I was ending my second week I ran out of the Lion’s Mane. I proceeded with my life towards the third week and the end of the third week which is when I’m writing this. Gradually through the week, my mind started to feel foggy again to which today I made a small blunder to a customer’s account. I’m still training so I let my senior coworker know so he could revise what I did thus correcting it in the end. After I noticed this I almost allowed myself to fall in despair because I don’t want to go through this like last time again. Conclusively I came back to the seller to order it, but I see that the shipping speed is too slow and I won’t get the product until May. I canceled the order and went with another seller with the same type of product which will hopefully arrive today. I can’t risk waiting for this seller to finally send it over a week later. In a nutshell it’s a pity that the benefits of Lion’s Mane are only present with continuing doses. According to scientists, Lion’s Mane has been observed to aid in growing new neurons. But once you stop taking it, does it mean that those neurons it helped grow die off???

One of my favorite things to do when the weather is right for it is mushroom hunting (: So far this year I haven't found any lions mane but I found quite a few other types. I'm actually working on editing a few new RU-vid videos for my channel about them (: Mushrooms are fascinating. And delicious

Thank you!

I'm so glad ppl are taking more about this, I used to write and research this 2+ years ago during uni. Awesome stuff.

I find those all the time in the woods, they are fantastic to eat also, super tasty and easy to identify

I'm not sure if anyone will see this comment, but I'm still here to make a review of taking lions mane supplements after about 4 weeks. The review is completely subjective, since the only reference point is myself. So far I did not see any improvements in memory, creativity, speed of thinking and so on... it did help with my anxiety and depressive episodes though. When I suffer from anxious episodes I get overwehelmed by all the thoughts and fears which leads me to feeling depressed for 1-2 weeks. I did get such an episode last weekend. While it was still really uncomfortable to go through, it was definitely easier for myself to structure my thoughts and process them. I was able to make connections between my anxieties and their causes... understanding that there is nothing to be afraid of. While this might be me maturing and learning from other episodes, I never saw such an improvement during just one episode before... which leads me to think that the supplements have something to do with it. Btw this episode only lasted 3 days which I am so thankful for. I am using a supplement which was used in a scientific study on eating disorders and lions mane mushrooms... rn I'm a little too lazy to look the link for the supplement and study up, but if you're interested, just tell me!

Great video 🙏👏👏

Good Stuff!!!

When my son was 8, he had a bad accident that was pretty traumatic. Right after the accident he developed a stutter which get worse very quickly and he also developed involuntary muscle spasms/tics with the stutter. We took him to a speech therapist to get him treated. After a few seasons with the therapist, by complete chance the accident my son was involved in come up in conversation. The therapist then said that this isn't a speech issue, it's PTSD and speech therapy won't help. I heard about lions mane before and the affect on the brain it can have so i ordered 30 lions mane tablets. One month later my son had no stutter and no tics anymore. I was completely shocked and i was the one who bought them in the chance they'd work, i just didn't think they'd do so much so fast. This mushroom is very special and can help a lot of people.

Rachel (of Rachel and Jun) mentioned this on a video a while ago! She has ARFID but is trying to include more mushrooms in her diet because of this.

Thank you! ❤

Very cool, can't wait to re-integrate them into my diet!

If anyone here is looking for a mushroom supplement after this video, mudwtr makes a really great mushroom blend/tea drink. I’d love to hear other brands to consider too!

Shrooms microdosing helped me overcome my life long addiction to cigarettes and alcohol, I just relocated and they're so hard to come by here, I really need to buy some

Very interesting information. How do I use this information? Are supplements as useful as eating the mushroom directly?

Great that these benefits are from such a tasty variety.

Psilocybin containing mushrooms save my life. The drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had became medically dangerous to quit

Mushrooms are delicious 😋🤤

What a Fun-guy you are :)

Thanks!

It restores my faith in humanity that we are studying things to make us smarter, and not just boner pills and hair growth products.

I've been supplementing with special superfood mushrooms for 20 years and feel the benefits. I've also supplemented with dozens of superfoods and also many other beneficial supplements. I've felt benefits of these for 30+ years. I'm a senior and my hair is still dark and my body weight is still the healthy slim weight I was at 19 years old. I've studied alternative health for 30 years and been to about a hundred health shows. I see the standard american diet as extremely unhealthy and severely lacking in nutrients and overloaded with garbage nutrients feeding a large portion of peoples diets. It's no wonder that 2/3 of Adult Americans are obese, which obesity is the most dangerous for overall health. In this case ignorance is not bliss it is deadly and committed by both the doctors and medical establishments and the citizens focused on trivial activities instead of improving their health and their lives.

I also recommend giving this mushroom to older people with dementia or other brain issues. It has been shown to help with that. Preventional use is best though.

Lions mane is amazing in a dish with a good sauce. It’s such a sauce sponge

My wife is currently stable having survived two resections because of glioblastoma multiform. Her eye sight and memory have taken a serious hit and, being that she’s stable, I’m going to have to do some research to see if we can leverage this one. So long as a possible side effect isn’t kick starting the cancer- any improvement could be a huge win!

SciShow definitely got the attention of some Shroom Bots. 😅

started taking lions mane capsules they are actually awesome and help with my motivation levels so much i’m getting more done and doing better in school honestly a miracle fungi that and the ones that make my vision all weird and wavy and colorful

Awesome. In med school, and need every edge I can get. On it.

Love this channel. I’m big on mushrooms. So this just confirms this even more!

I can't find a source anywhere for any good psychedelics in my area, I suffer some pretty bad depression and i got a chance to try K and man it was a miracle substance, I felt free,the only high or euphoria was from the relief of my vices being released, that's exactly what it did

I have been on an extract for 4 days and, although I'm sure placebo plays a roll, I have felt a noticeable positive impact on my ADHD and ability to think clearly.

Fascinating.

Perhaps the nerve system in the past was a form of Fungi that was able to spread out and branch and carry messages that inhabited other groups of cells as a sort of symbiosis.

Lions mane is a excellent product, i've been taking it for a couple years. Before i started taking it i had next to no feeling in my toes and now i have full feeling in my toes. It also minimises hot flashes. There is also a slight increase in internal energy. Totally great product.

Mushrooms are so good for the body, if you could just get past that visual of what mushrooms look like, don’t let the fungi fool you. Sometimes the main foods we don’t want to eat are the main foods we need to eat, like fungi.

I loved foraging/hunting for bears Comb mushrooms in Alaska! Bears comb/lions mane was allways plentiful near a glacier I lived by and I used to find huge amounts! My breakfast lunch n dinner for 3 months out of the year would always have handfuls of bears comb/lions mane. It got to the point I could smell bears comb/ lions mane 20 yards from my position in the woods and start frantically searching the birch and alder and spruce trees until I found em! Some summers I’d eat at least 50 pounds worth! I ate them raw or sautéed great especially with eggs and another mushroom called shaggy manes! When I had that combo I felt like a king! But I always had to find the bears comb/ lions mane first bc they had a longer preserving time opposed to the shaggy mane that starts to get inky black in a matter of a half hour after separating them from the mycelium… only problem is brown bears loved those mushrooms just as much as I did and would have close encounters with them all the time foraging for those shrooms deep in the woods. Some of the funniest times of my life!

I wonder what the longterm effects of consumption are. Like, habitual chapstick use actually prompts your lips to produce LESS moisture on its own (catch 22). A similar example of use prompting decline of natural proclivities is a friend took CBD for insomnia for years. When she decided to stop, she noticed just how much her routine had come to depend on the drug. Sleep was once again incredibly difficult, but it's impossible to know in this anecdote if her insomnia was worse than it was before using cbd.

Could you make a video about how wax worms can degrade tough plastic? I heard of one of the Spanish studies !

To folks asking, yes, these properties are mainly specific to the Hericium genus which Lion's Mane belongs to. There are a few other species that do have similar effect on neural health but those are even harder to find as they are cultivated exclusively in China and SE Asia.

Been growing my own lion's mane in my apartment for about 2 years now. It's easy to do, and when you get better at it, your yield becomes more. Love lion's mane "steaks". And you can put it in any health drink if you dehydrate them, grind them up, and mix in

Very interesting.. still doing more comments and research.. heard alott about Lion's mane.. and all very positive effects... need more info....