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Withstanding winter with mushroom therapy

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Winter brings a spike in mortality rates, but rather than simply having more parties to divert our attention, Bruce Gibb suggests that perhaps we should be looking to the misunderstood mushroom to give us a boost.

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Fig. 1: A taste of molecules from mushrooms.

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