If you've never heard of lion's mane mushroom before, you're in for a treat! This mushroom, known scientifically as hericium erinaceus, isn't what you'd expect from a mushroom. From the way it looks, you'd assume it's more of an animal than a superfood if you didn't know what it was. Because of ...

Lion's mane mushroom, or the bearded hedgehog, is a medicinal, parasitic fungus found in North America, China, Japan and Europe. With the most common species being Hericium erinaceus, this mushroom comes under the 'nootropic' (i.e., smart drug and cognitive accelerator) group of foods having been ...