Focus on the Fungi

Research is finding that mushrooms may help you live longer, stronger, and happier. Learn which varieties are most beneficial.

Unless you've been living under a rock or in a cave (or perhaps especially if you have been), you've likely been seeing mushrooms popping up all over the culinary world. They're making appearances in coffee, chocolate, and protein bars, and being ground into health powders to add to your smoothie. And while mushrooms have served important roles in ancient wellness rituals and protocols dating back tens of thousands of years (researchers have found evidence of mushrooms in the human diet as early as the Stone Age), they're coming back under the scientific spotlight, being newly researched and appreciated for the profound body benefits they seem to deliver. Here, a few with particularly helpful wellness perks.

Lion's Mane