The effect was on cultured brain cells. The reason brain tumors and other disorders of the brain are so hard to treat is that the blood-brain barrier keeps many big molecules out. That doesn't mean the molecule isn't therapeutically relevant, only that there's a ways to go to making it useful for actual humans/mice and not just cells in a petri dish.
Still a fascinating discovery and I look forward to more research.
Edit: Not totally true, the actual study link has more details.
>We further found that dietary supplementation with H. erinaceus crude extract significantly enhanced recognition memory.
The human BBB may still be an obstacle but I'm sure we'll see more studies soon.
The effect was on cultured brain cells. The reason brain tumors and other disorders of the brain are so hard to treat is that the blood-brain barrier keeps many big molecules out. That doesn't mean the molecule isn't therapeutically relevant, only that there's a ways to go to making it useful for actual humans/mice and not just cells in a petri dish.
Still a fascinating discovery and I look forward to more research.
Edit: Not totally true, the actual study link has more details.
>We further found that dietary supplementation with H. erinaceus crude extract significantly enhanced recognition memory.
The human BBB may still be an obstacle but I'm sure we'll see more studies soon.